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Mawarire calls for ZEC to be dissolved
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has called for the dissolution of the current Zimbabwe Electoral Commission saying that it should not be given power to run the 2023 elections. ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 643 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Shame, elite using foreign hospitals after destroying local one' said Mahere - fuming she not MP
"It's embarrassing and selfish for political elites to destroy our public hospitals then seek health care abroad, destroy our airlines then hire private jets for themselves, destroy our farms then imp...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:58hrs | 579 | by Nomusa Garikai
Jonathan Moyo denies links with G40
Exiled former cabinet Minister professor Jonathan Moyo has distanced himself from a newly formed political outfit called the G40 which was registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission recently. ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 11:54hrs | 5173 | by Mandla Ndlovu
G40 launch political party
A new political party, Zimbabwe Generation 40 (G40) was launched recently and duly notified the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) of its existence.In a letter addressed to the party by ZEC, ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:09hrs | 2550 | by Staff reporter
Giving Mugabe a hero's send-off proves we love our dictators and don't want change - not yet
Zimbabweans are not yet ready to end the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship and with it the economic meltdown and political paralysis.Last year Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the ...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 11:56hrs | 858 | by Wilbert Mukori
Afrophobia and the Zimbophobes among us
Africa and the whole world are perturbed by the gory sights of acts of Afrophobia which are perpetrated against African foreign nationals in South Africa by some citizens of that country. And rightly ...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 14:53hrs | 2481 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zanu-PF wins Mangwe, lose Glenview South by-election
Zanu PF has retained the Mangwe National Assembly and Masvingo North Ward 1 council seats but lost Harare's Glenview South National Assembly seat to the opposition MDC. In Mangwe, the ruling p...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 20:42hrs | 1939 | by Staff reporter
'Kambara prohibited from carrying out duties as councillor'
The Bulawayo Town Clerk has written to deposed Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami advising him is Prohibited to carry out his duties as a councillor until the appeal is finalised.Kambarami h...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 21:18hrs | 1287 | by Staff reporter
Zec doesn't tamper with voters' roll
THE ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) has dismissed allegations and concerns raised by the opposition MDC of alleged tinkering of the voters' roll through de-registration and moving voters from one ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:14hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC confronts Zec over voters' roll
THE opposition MDC has accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) of tinkering with the voters' roll during by-elections, leading to many voters being disenfranchised.In a letter of compl...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:15hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter
Reymond Mugadza to stand for Chamisa's MDC in Insiza by-election
THE ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) has announced the names of candidates who were successfully nominated for the Insiza Ward 15 Rural District Council by-election slated for September 21....Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
'Kambarami not going anywhere'
THE MDC Bulawayo province has announced that it will soon be appealing against the Bulawayo High Court ruling which nullified deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami's election as councillor for ward 3....Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:09hrs | 2146 | by Staff reporter
'Sham 2018 poll resulted in illegitimacy' CIZC finally admit - yet still can't resist urge to appease Zanu PF
It is heartening to see that organisation like Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition (CIZC) are finally calling a spade a spade! "The sham 2018 polls resulted in a serious legitimacy crisis that c...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 06:36hrs | 874 | by Nomusa Garikai
MDC to challenge Kambarami election reversal
The MDC says it will go to the Supreme Court to challenge the nullification of former Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami's election.Last week, Bulawayo High Court Judge, Thompson Mabhikw...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1389 | by newzimbabwe
Kambarami by-election latest
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is waiting for official communication from the Bulawayo City Council to start preparing for a by-election after the High Court nullified the election of Bulaway...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 1294 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC in turmoil
MDC-Alliance has been thrown into further turmoil after the recent ruling by the High Court to nullify the election of Bulawayo deputy mayor, Tinashe Kambarami as a councillor.On Thursday High...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 05:02hrs | 5647 | by Staff Reporter
Poll ghost haunts Mnangagwa
A NEW case study done by exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo, a political science professor, in collaboration with publisher Ibbo Mandaza, under his Southern African Political Economy Trust (...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 9224 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Bulawayo faction dealt a huge blow
THE High Court yesterday nullified the election into council of beleaguered Bulawayo deputy Mayor, Councillor Tinashe Kambarami the leader of a Nelson Chamisa led faction in the city. The ruli...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1353 | by Staff reporter
Impatience, tactlessness expose Chamisa's immaturity
It is just one-and-a-half years since Nelson Chamisa seized control of the MDC following his predecessor, the late Morgan Tsvangirai's death on February 14, 2018. The guy is already show...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 655 | by Nobleman Runyanga
2nd coup afoot to remove Mnangagwa by August 2020 and, as with 1st, to consolidate dictatorship
"So dire is the situation and boiling tensions in the corridors of power, that Mnangagwa is said to have pleaded for a political grace period of until August 2020 to step down, as a faction aligned to...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 21:33hrs | 3598 | by Nomusa Garikai
Jonathan Moyo's Exclegate 'expose how ED rigged elections' - rubbish, don't learn tango from fiddler crab
"A NEW case study done by exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo, a political science professor, in collaboration with publisher Ibbo Mandaza, under his Southern African Political Economy Trust ...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 15:22hrs | 7270 | by Wilbert Mukori
Impatience, tactlessness expose Chamisa's immaturity
It is just one and a half years since Nelson Chamisa seized control of the MDC following his predecessor, the late Morgan Tsvangirai's death on 14 February 2018. The guy is already showing signs of fa...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 13:21hrs | 3008 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Dialogue or Suspension of Constitutionalism? Prohibition orders Narrative
Academic Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes: Events leading to August 16, determines whether constitutionalism should remain order of the day or it can be suspended? There is need for re-configura...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 12:57hrs | 1134 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zec in preps for 2023 elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is in the process of fine tuning the process of cleaning up the voters' roll in preparation for the 2023 elections. In an interview in Bulawayo recently...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Coup to remove Mnangagwa by August 2020 to consolidate dictatorship
"So dire is the situation and boiling tensions in the corridors of power, that Mnangagwa is said to have pleaded for a political grace period of until August 2020 to step down, as a faction aligned to...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 17:27hrs | 4852 | by Nomusa Garikai
Glen View new battlefield for Chamisa, Mnangagwa
THE two main political parties, Zanu-PF and the MDC, have turned their rivalry to the Glen View South constituency by-election amid allegations of vote-buying, intimidation and financial warfare....Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:07hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's book to expose ZEC
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has finished writing a book which details how the 2018 presidential election was systematically rigged by state institutions for President Emmerson Mnangagwa. ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 16:03hrs | 3522 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How to think in Dark Times
"DO nothing but think" is a philosophical proverb that is much mistakenly attributed to the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek. Slavoj Zizek only stole and made famous the pithy statement. The genera...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | 427 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
What is holding back Zimbabwe - perverse Zanu-PF and MDC entente cordiale
There is no doubt that ever since the 2008 to 2013 GNU there was mutual understanding, a cordial agreement, a "entente cordiale" as the French would say, struck between Zanu-PF and MDC. MDC was suppos...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:29hrs | 2382 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zanu-PF won people's mandate and will not share it with MDC' - illegitimate, rigged elections
Zanu-PF is treating the issue of the regime's lack of legitimacy and the MDC's call for a power sharing arrangement as if the two are one and the same thing."The people pronounced themselves a...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 08:00hrs | 679 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'New GNU will address legitimacy deficit' argues Biti - he is still breathtakingly incompetent
Some of us castigated Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Nelson Chamisa, Welshmen Ncube, David Coltart and the rest of the MDC leaders as "breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent" as far back as 2010; whe...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:51hrs | 4148 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zec in quandary over delimitation exercise
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is in quandary over the delimitation exercise as the Constitution stipulates that it must be conducted after the Census in 2022 leaving little time to prepare f...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Zec calls on residents to register as voters
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba has urged citizens to register to vote so that their constituencies are not affected by delimitation processes in 2022....Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 17:57hrs | 931 | by Staff reporter
Zec pushes for transparency
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it plans to rebrand and become more open and transparent to the public ahead of critical elections in 2023.Speaking during a strategic meeting held...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:50hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
'People have lost confidence in elected regime' says Fr Wermter - it's worse and more complex
"IF the citizens do not feel any longer represented by the men and women they have cast their ballots for, and Parliament is no longer effective in serving the common good, can no longer defend human ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 21:05hrs | 1989 | by Wilbert Mukori
August 16 exposes the MDC's insincerity
The much-hyped MDC's 16 August 2019 demonstration in Harare fell flat on its face despite the spirited attempts by some of its impressionable and excitable youths to defy the prohibition order issued ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 13:54hrs | 1175 | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Zanu-PF is brazenly and openly rigging elections' - that has failed to deter MDC, why
"These are the wages of rigging by the military, which now rigs elections in the rural areas brazenly and openly. For ZANU-PF to keep winning, it needs the military to keep rigging, and the rural area...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 17:23hrs | 1392 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Park rigged elections and focus on new GNU' - no, Zanu-PF must step down and rigged elections is the gist
"I think both leaders have to park that issue (whether last year's elections were free, fair and credible and therefore Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party are legitimate). In other words, Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 22:49hrs | 2894 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa off globe-trotting to be declared winner of 2018 - if one leader does, will eat my hat
"Hupenzi inyama yegakava!" (There is no one more stubborn than a village idiot!) so goes the Shona maxim. The MDC leaders are village idiots and they are very stubborn too."On the 31st of July...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:15hrs | 5327 | by Nomusa Garikai
By-elections show Zanu-PF's prowess?
ZANU-PF has polled a total of 25 597 votes to the MDC Alliance's 11 369 in all by-elections held since last year's harmonised elections, statistics from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) have re...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:33hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Zec leans on Parly for electoral reforms
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has petitioned Parliament to expedite the amendment of laws to delink the national census from the delimitation exercise in order to guarantee smooth general el...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:31hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally's hearing deferred
Harare magistrate, Mrs Rumbidzai Mugwagwa, yesterday deferred to August 29 the matter of former Principal Director State Residences in the Office of the President and Cabinet Douglas Tapfuma who alleg...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:03hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
Of enemies of democracy and lovers of money
Today, the Nelson Chamisa-led is set to stage a protest in Harare over almost everything that the opposition party's members could think of. Some of its members such as secretary for public se...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:59hrs | 349 | by Nobleman Runyanga
ZEC Commissioner Qhubani Moyo gets top post
Zimbabwe Electoral Commissioner Dr Qhubani Moyo has been appointed as a member of the esteemed Lupane State University Council.In a letter appointment seen by this publication it is said: ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 16:15hrs | 1838 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC to drag ZEC to court over Lupane by-election
The main opposition party MDC said it will be dragging the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to court after the electoral management body turned down their request to have a recount of ballots in th...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Of enemies of democracy and lovers of money
This Friday the Nelson Chamisa-led is set to stage a protest in Harare over almost everything that the opposition party's members could think of. Some of its members such as secretary for publ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 14:28hrs | 572 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC Alliance urged to avoid violence
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has urged MDC-Alliance to put in place strategies to ensure demonstrations called for on August 16 do not degenerate into violence. In a...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC request recount of Lupane East by-election results
THE Movement for Democratic Change led by Nelson Chamisa has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) applying for the recount of Lupane East by-election results. This comes after Za...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:59hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
4 candidates nominated for Zaka East by-election
The nomination court which sat today, August 9, 2019, has approved four candidates from four political parties for the Zaka East by-election slated for next month, September 21.Zanu-PF will be...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:33hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
ZEC consults CSOs on poll reforms
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has started consultations with civil society organisations (CSOs) to craft new voter education material as part of the wider electoral reforms it is carrying ou...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
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