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Independent politician withdraws ahead of by -election
AN independent candidate for the forthcoming June 25 Masvingo West ward 21 by-election, Sister Nhando, has withdrawn her candidature under unclear circumstances.Nhando was set to battle it out...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:53hrs | 790 | by Staff reporter
Zec refuses to release voters roll to 'regime change' NGOs
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) reportedly has refused to release a copy of the voters roll for analysis by independent watchdogs such as the Election Resource Centre (ERC), raising fears that...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:52hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Nothing new about CCC's same old characters
When CCC won in the majority of constituencies in by-elections held in March, its leaders ran with a line that they had done well, yet they were a new party on the scene.Yet the claim that CCC...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:50hrs | 296 | by Lovemore Chikova
Mnangagwa Davos trip a useless exercise
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's trip to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF) presents a platform to re-engage with the international community but that opportunity looks lost due to th...Published: 27 May 2022 at 20:17hrs | 1226 | by Staff reporter
Information, IDs dearth hamstring Matobo youths
YOUTHS in Matobo district say they are failing to register to vote because of lack of access to information and identity documents.In a documentary shot by the Matobo Youth Development Initiat...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:25hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Delimitation of constituencies begins
The delimitation of constituencies, wards and other electoral boundaries for elections over the next decade, including the 2023 harmonised elections, will begin next Wednesday, running through to Dece...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's voters roll will close for delimitation on May 30
Zimbabwe's voters roll will close for delimitation on May 30, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced on Tuesday.ZEC said the delimitation exercise – the drawing of constituency bo...Published: 25 May 2022 at 17:21hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate fails to turn up for journalist's trial
ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH) journalists Blessed Mhlanga and Chengeto Chidi had their case of violating the Electoral Act postponed to June 13 after the presiding magistrate failed to turn up yesterday....Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
'We are militarised, so what?, asks ZEC
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) said there was no law prohibiting the elections management body from being run by the military."You talk about the militarisation of the commission, I w...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parliament snubs EU observer mission
THE European Union observer mission (EUOM) has expressed concern over its failure to meet Parliament to assess progress on the implementation of electoral reform recommendations.The EU mission...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
'Fresh plot' to derail Chamisa
There is allegedly a fresh plot to confuse supporters of the Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) after a shadowy political group notified the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) tha...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:35hrs | 1511 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ignores colonials masters' poll recommendations
ZIMBABWE has failed to effect critical recommendations of the European Union (EU) Election Observer Mission (EOM) that observed the 2018 harmonised elections with the grouping warning of a potentially...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:29hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
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: 21 May 2022 at 18:01hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Zec completely lost on elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) never ceases to amaze.Its penchant to always blame someone or something for its own failures is incredible.Now Zec is suggesting that elections ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 691 | 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 | 407 | by Staff reporter
So tragic that Zimbabwe regime respects animals more than its own citizens!
This morning I watched, in profound amazement, a news report on the Zimbabwe government's impassioned pleading with the EU (European Union) to support the country's cause at this year's CITES Conferen...Published: 17 May 2022 at 11:01hrs | 1579 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 5144 | 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
There is no my vote is my secret, 'Death leaves no track record, voters do!' boasted Mnangagwa
"SaBuku pamberi, (Zanu PF) district chairman shure navanhu, councillor aripovo. Kwava kunovota." (Village headman will be in front, (Zanu PF) district chairman behind with the people and the local cou...Published: 14 May 2022 at 11:16hrs | 1791 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ex-UK ambassador's Zanu-PF links exposed
THE United Kingdom lawmakers have exposed former British ambassador to Zimbabwe Catriona Laing over Zanu-PF links and misleading the government into believing President Emmerson Mnangagwa, then the la...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 965 | 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 | 768 | by Staff reporter
Why others will land man on Mars whilst we still 'struggle to cross the street!'
"And we (in Africa) are still struggling to cross the street!" was the spontaneous respond of "Mwalimu" (Teacher) Julius Kambarage Nyerere, then President of Tanzania, when he learnt the American had ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 08:04hrs | 696 | by Wilbert Mukori
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
AMH journalists granted bail
ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH) journalists Blessed Mhlanga and Chengeto Chidi were yesterday granted $20 000 bail each by Chitungwiza magistrate Isheanesu Matova following their arrest at the weekend whil...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:45hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
'Conduct a third mobile voter registration blitz' ZEC told
EkhayaVote2023 takes note of the BVR blitz Phase 2 statistics released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and celebrates its volunteers who operated in Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South Provinc...Published: 06 May 2022 at 17:32hrs | 269 | by EkhayaVote2023
Bulawayo, Matabeleland in 7-hour blackout
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (Zetdc) Western region yesterday disrupted electricity supplies to some parts of Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South affecting operati...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:34hrs | 1319 | by Staff reporter
Zec abandons polling station at Zanu-PF torture base
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will no longer be using a polling station in Kwekwe situated in an area where there is a traditional Zanu-PF torture base manned by the party's violent terror s...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:30hrs | 1967 | by Staff reporter
Most times, only 'solution' to Zimbabwe's myriad of problems is simply a completely new leadership!
Yesterday (May 3, 2022), when I was attentively listening to the deputy information minister, Kindness Paradza, addressing a World Press Freedom Day gathering in Bulawayo, there was a statement he mad...Published: 04 May 2022 at 12:26hrs | 526 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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
Zimbabwe has gone to the dogs
AS a retired former police officer, my heart bleeds when I see the living conditions of serving police officers deteriorating each day.To be precise, I left the Zimbabwe Republic Police ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:02hrs | 435 | by Leonard Koni
Govt taken to court over school heads suspension
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has dragged the government to court over the suspension of five headmasters.The headmasters were suspended with no pay after being suspected o...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:00hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane villagers accuse Zec of ambush
VILLAGERS in Umzingwane, Matabeleland South province, have accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of ambushing them in the just-ended biometric voter registration (BVR) blitz after the progra...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:00hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Census: ZimStart begins 5-day mop up
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) will in the next five days, be mopping up those who were not counted for one reason or the other, during last week's counting.Yesterday, ZimStat s...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:54hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Census results in 3 months
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) says it will release findings from the 2022 Zimbabwe Population and Housing Census that ended yesterday in three months' time.However, a mop-u...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:10hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Plea for voter registration blitz extension
CIVIC Society organisations, political parties and the public in general have pleaded with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to extend its mobile voter registration blitz which ends today....Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:16hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Ekhaya vote takes voter education to rural areas
Ekhaya vote, a consortium of civic organisations have intensified voter education in rural areas in a bid to increase voter awareness....Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 06:30hrs | 528 | by Stephen Jakes
Politicised military threatens 2023 poll
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is abusing state institutions, including the military, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and judiciary, to maintain his tight grip on power ahead of the...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:39hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Moyo shields MDC-T councillors to protect controversial deals?
AS consistently reported by The NewsHawks prior to the March 26 by-elections, Local Government minister July Moyo (pictured) has stepped in to protect his multi-million-dollar corrupt deals at Town Ho...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from March by-elections
WITH the support from Diakonia, the Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) from April 08 and 12 2022 conducted capacity-building training in transformative feminist leadership...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:54hrs | 192 | by Walpe
Zimbabweans snub Zec voter registration programme
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has bemoaned low turnout during the ongoing mobile voter registration blitz which ends on Saturday as analysts called for the exercise to be extended."F...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:49hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Voter registration must intensify
THE Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development (Cotrad) in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) held a series of voter education activities in Masvingo province through v...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:24hrs | 39 | by Cotrad
Why you should register, turn up to vote
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)rolled out the second phase of the biometric voter registration (BVR) process on the 11th of this month. After registering approximately 80 000 new voters in the...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:23hrs | 116 | by Brighton Taruberekera
Zimbabwean engineer forms new political party to unite divided country
RENOWED engineer and banker, Wilbert Mubaiwa, has launched a new political party which will contest in next year's general election.The new party, which uses blue and purple colour codes, is k...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 09:19hrs | 1627 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demand bribes to register to vote
Ekhaya Vote 2023, a consortium of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Matabeleland has reported that the residents of Magwegwe Suburb in Bulawayo are demanding bribes from the organization for them ...Published: 23 Apr 2022 at 13:08hrs | 1918 | by Mandla Ndlovu
July Moyo cracks whip on Mayors; Councilors
Minister of Local Government July Moyo has written to the Mayors and Councilors advising them that they do not have power to reconstitute the leadership of any Municipality and Chairpersons of Committ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 19:10hrs | 1776 | 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
SA Minister to resign once all foreign 'rascals' are locked up and keys thrown away
The occasion was his address at an ANC regional conference in the Eastern Cape where the minister pledged that "unlike other coward ANC leaders", his views on the scourge of undocumented foreign natio...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:14hrs | 1745 | by Staff reporter
Zec's 20-day voter registration blitz too short
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has earmarked 20 days only for the voter registration exercise and is calling it a blitz.It can hardly be called a blitz when Zec is only providing one ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:10hrs | 138 | by A Mbire
ZEC starts second voter registration blitz after training
The ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) in Bulawayo last week started a voter registration second blitz after conducting a staff training.Zec Bulawayo Provincial Elections Officer Innocent Ncu...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 22:45hrs | 257 | by Stephen Jakes
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
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