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Zimbabwe has failed to implement electoral reforms: EU
ZIMBABWE has failed to take steps to implement electoral reforms that would guarantee free and fair elections next year, a European Union observer mission (EUOM) said yesterday.The EU mission ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 44 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe elections a security threat'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has accused politicians of fanning anarchy by alleging that it was mismanaging elections.Zec also claimed that elections in the country were now a secur...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Ex-UK envoy roasted over Mnangagwa links
FORMER British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catriona Laing has been roasted by the United Kingdom Parliament for giving London misleading reports that portrayed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a "reformist...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 5043 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally says 'Zec must pass credibility, transparency tests'
POLITICAL parties and election watchdogs have challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to dispel poll rigging accusations for it to gain public confidence and trust ahead of the 2023 general...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
'Drop in voter numbers disturbing'
THE number of registered voters as of April 30 has dropped by 10 448 compared to the 2018 figures, a trend analysts said was disturbing.According to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), Zi...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission demands proof of how it 'rigs' elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has demanded proof of how it "rigs" elections, describing as "bar talk" allegations that it manipulates the results in favour of the ruling Zanu-PF party....Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:46hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
Zec seeks to gag social media
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) wants Twitter and Facebook to pull down "damaging posts" about its handling of elections.The election management body also wants Parliament to regulate ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:04hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Thokozani Khupe takes Chamisa campaign to Plumtree
Former MDC-T Vice President Thokozani Khupe took her voter mobilization program to Plumtree on Friday where she encouraged citizens to register to vote for CCC leader Nelson Chamisa in the 2023 electi...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 10:48hrs | 4876 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US attacks Zec over reforms
THE United States (US) embassy has urged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to implement electoral reforms recommended in the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera).The US ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:43hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate courts residents ire
RESIDENTS of Chitungwiza's ward 7, Zengeza West, allege that the Zanu-PF candidate for May 7 by-elections, Charamba Mlambo, is intimidating the electorate by marking people on the voters roll during d...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC threatens to sue Zec
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has threatened to sue the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for alleged vote fraud over it handling of last month's by-elections.The Nelson Chamisa-le...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:03hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
ZEC warns civic, political parties
CIVIL society organisations and political parties must not give incentives for people to register as voters since that might entice those already on the voters roll to register multiple times resultin...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
The fog has cleared in Zimbabwe, writes Nelson Chamisa
AT the beginning of last year, I wrote an article in which I promised that "the fog will soon clear".The article was at a time when the movement was facing adverse circumstances. It was a mess...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1504 | by Nelson Chamisa
Zec in server storm
THE embattled Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is once again entangled in a rigging storm amid allegations by some data experts that the electoral body's servers are being hosted by Africom, a comp...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:38hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF had voters roll with pictures?
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of issuing a voters' roll with colour pictures to Zanu-PF candidates while denying the same to the opposition in what critics say amounts to vo...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | 2671 | by Staff reporter
Zec should come clean on voters roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is in the spotlight again albeit for the wrong reasons.A voters roll with colour pictures of voters was allegedly given to some ruling Zanu-PF candidate...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:29hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Zec has no capacity to run free, fair elections
ELECTION observer teams deployed by Heal Zimbabwe in the just-ended by-elections have expressed concern over the ability of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to preside over free and fair elections....Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:13hrs | 114 | by Heal Zimbabwe Trust
The 2022 national census and the politics of delimitation ahead of 2023 general elections
In Zimbabwe, population and household census is a constitutionally mandated procedure that is significant for several reasons. At its most basic level, a fair census is needed simply to determine how ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 09:09hrs | 490 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Chamisa ready to engage Mnangagwa in dialogue
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was ready to engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa in dialogue for the 2023 election roadmap.Addressing jou...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:50hrs | 4461 | by Staff reporter
Confusion, chaos mar by-elections
Acts of violence by suspected Zanu-PF supporters, alleged vote buying, bussing of voters, voters failing to find their names on the voters' roll and voter apathy yesterday marred Zimbabwe's first elec...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:33hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
ZEC officer assaulted by opposition activists
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has expressed its disappointment after an officer was allegedly assaulted by MDC Alliance members at Mhizha Primary School in Harare's Highfields East constitue...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:24hrs | 3614 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC, UZA cry foul
TWO opposition parties, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA), yesterday cried foul over what they termed attempts by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to confus...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1887 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans speak on by-elections
INDEPENDENT election watchdogs, the clergy and ordinary Zimbabweans have called for peace in today's polls to fill 28 parliamentary and 105 local government seats.The run-up to the polls was m...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1622 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC in battle of Zimbabwe for bragging rights
THE ruling Zanu-PF faces a tough challenge as it locks horns with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in tomorrow's by-elections, which were delayed by two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:03hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to fire ZEC boss
OPPOSITION Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday demanded neutrality and fairness from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in tomorrow's by-elections.Addressin...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | 6540 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants ZEC to be disbanded
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president, Nelson Chamisa, has blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for refusing to avail a copy of the voters roll to be used in Saturday's by-elections...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:13hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Don't read much into campaign crowds
ZIMBABWEANS are set to cast their votes in key parliamentary and local government by-elections tomorrow. The by-elections have the potential to set the tone for next year's national elections....Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:12hrs | 344 | by James Muzondidya/ Munyaradzi Mushonga
Chamisa says by-elections to test Zec neutrality
OPPOSITION Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday demanded neutrality and fairness from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in tomorrow's by-elections.Addressin...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:08hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Zec orders COVID-19 contact tracing for voters, agents
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday said all polling agents, observers and voters in tomorrow's by-elections will be subjected to COVID-19 contact tracing in the interest of public healt...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:04hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party has same fears of dirty tricks
ZIMBABWE'S opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa may have formed a new political party, but he is still facing the same old problems which some had hoped would end with ...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:00hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
All systems go for by-elections
ALL is set for tomorrow's by-elections with both the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) saying they are ready to ensure free and credible polls that are being c...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:52hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Zec flags up State media bias
OutGOING Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) spokesperson Joyce Kazembe has decried partisan coverage of the March 26 by-elections by the State media.Kazembe called on the public media to ensu...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:24hrs | 1365 | by Staff reporter
Zec dismisses misleading social media claims
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has dismissed misleading allegations circulating on social media platforms relating to ballot papers, voters roll and perceived stringent requirements for polli...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:21hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC claims to have unearthed voters roll and ballot papers anomalies
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) claims it has unearthed serious anomalies on the Pumula voters roll and irregularities on the Nkulumane ballot papers which are going to be used in the Saturday by-...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1550 | by Staff reporter
'Zec has changed our party symbols'
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has sensationally accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of changing its party symbols on ballot papers to be used in the weekend by-electio...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 3119 | by Staff reporter
CSOs mobilise residents to go and vote
Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has embarked on an awareness campaign to encourage residents to vote at Nkulumane and Pumula in the Marck 26 by-election.BPRA chairperson, Amb...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 09:00hrs | 762 | by Stephen Jakes
'Voters roll is in shambles, unusable'
THE voters roll which will be used by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in the Saturday by-elections is shambolic, with an unacceptably high margin of error of 27%, watchdogs have said.A...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Zec taken to court on unfair dismissal over leaked voters roll
FORMER Zimbabwe Electoral Commission director for Information Communication Technology and voter delimitation, Pamela Mapondera has dragged the electoral body before the Labour Court for unlawfully te...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC turns heat on Zec
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday rejected the voters roll released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for use in by-elections set to be held next weekend and demanded the use ...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 06:54hrs | 2690 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC demands new voters roll
PRESSURE continues to mount on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission after main opposition party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) demanded a fresh for the March 26 by-elections, arguing the heavil...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 17:18hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says economy will get worse
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned that the economic situation will get worse because of the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to manage ...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1061 | by Staff reporter
Zec registers 80 000 new voters
MORE than 80 000 new voters were registered on the voters roll during the recently concluded first phase of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) blitz.Harare Metropolitan Province had the hi...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:03hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Team Pachedu condemns failure to produce verified voters' roll but not CCC for participating in the flawed elections
A few weeks ago, Team Pachedu, a group of IT savvy Zimbabweans, revealed some pretty shocking irregularities and illegalities in the voters' roll such as the transfer of some voters from one Polling S...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 09:36hrs | 581 | by Nomusa Garikai
Team Pachedu takes Zec head-on
ACTIVISTS Team Pachedu yesterday hit back at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), accusing it of failing to address discrepancies observed in the voters roll."We would like to put it on re...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:15hrs | 1195 | by Staff reporter
Our hands are clean, claims Team Pachedu
WE would like to put it on record that Team Pachedu has, indeed, submitted our concerns to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and it has not responded.We have also personally sent it requ...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:12hrs | 389 | by Team Pachedu
ZEC not afraid of Chamisa
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has strongly castigated opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa over his claims the electoral body was plotting to rig the upcming ...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | 1930 | by Staff reporter
Zec hits back at Chamisa
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday hit back at opposition Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa, saying its officials would not lose sleep over his "empty threats" meant t...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:05hrs | 2225 | by Staff reporter
ZEC fails to register first time voters due to shortage of IDs
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says most youths failed to register to vote during its just-ended voter registration blitz exercise due to a lack identity cards (IDs).ZEC had initially...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says CCC has plans to thwart ZEC rigging
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa says his party has infiltrated the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and informants are giving him daily briefings which will help thwart...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 2288 | by Staff reporter
Zec can't cheat us this time, says CCC
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday claimed that his party was now alert to Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) rigging machinations ahead of the 2023 gener...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
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