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Mberengwa, Nyanga by-election environment should replicate at next year's elections

THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has deployed six static observers in Mberengwa ward 15 and Nyanga ward 27 as well as observers at the ward collation centres and a roving team to the local authority by-elections.The by-election…

Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Zesn

Stakeholders must foster peace to ensure development

AFTER we celebrated the International Day of Peace on September 21, 2021, running under the  theme Recovering Better for an Equitable and Sustainable World, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) implores all stakeholders to eng…

Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:31hrs | 10 | by Zesn

Zesn worried over turned away voters

INDEPENDENT elections watchdog, the Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (Zesn) has urged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to step up voter education campaigns in view of the high number of voters who were turned away in the three cou…

Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter

+50% struck off Mutoko North voters' roll

THE biometric voters' roll (BVR) for Mutoko North by-election has exposed serious irregularities by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in the contested 2013 general elections which former President Robert Mugabe won over the late MDC-…

Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

EU to cut funding to Zesn over positive report on Zimbabwe election?

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn), an independent electoral watchdog, has been under tremendous pressure from European Union (EU) donors, particularly Britain, to doctor and alter its reports on the country's electoral process a…

Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter

Let sanity prevail

Looking back at the past week, my head starts swirling. It started with a press-conference by former President Robert Mugabe, propelling himself back out of oblivion and into the centre of a heated campaign. It continued with a tense but p…

Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 11:12hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Matika

Zimbabwe Election Support Network's damascene moment

In April 2008, Canadian writer and blogger Stephen Gowans wrote an insightful piece in which he revealed the unbelievably intricate web of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and Western organisations, in particular Western think t…

Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga

Disaster for Chamisa as scheme revealed

The plan was simple. Five steps to victory.Step one: Cry foul over the voters roll and have your own stooges attack its credibility.Step two: Threaten and intimidate the ZEC chairperson into bending to your willStep Three: Announce you wil…

Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 14:22hrs | 1 | by Innocent Dube

Who is stealing your vote?

Recently, the MDC, led by its leader, Nelson Chamisa, has almost completely stopped campaigning for your vote and have switched tactics to attacking the election system, run by the constitutionally-appointed Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (…

Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:34hrs | 4 | by Knowledge Moyo

'2 million voters removed from voters' roll'

More than two million voters who appeared on the 2013 preliminary voters' roll failed to find their way onto the 2018 biometric voters' roll (BVR), the Zimbabwe Elections Network (Zesn) has revealed.Zesn, which fell short of giving the Zec…

Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter

ZESN should stop making pointless claims

It is worrisome that the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) recently claimed that it was concerned with the 'unusual' higher numbers of registered voters in alleged Zanu-PF's stronghold.ZESN has been known for decampaigning the rulin…

Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 15:28hrs | | by Sibusiso Ndlamini

Mawarire, CSOs fleece naive donors

While it is on record that yester year Civil Society Organizations (CSO) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) focused more on 'developmental' and 'welfare' issues, the current adopted a paradigm shift, - that of dabbling into politics…

Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 14:57hrs | 1 | by Rungano Dzikira

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