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Zec abandons Econet for voter registration checks

In a troubling move that has left many potential voters struggling to verify their registration status, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has seemingly abandoned the Econet platform for voter registration checks, limiting access to N…

Published: 02 Aug 2025 at 10:13hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter

Govt increases BEAM disbursements to ease pressure on rural schools

The Zimbabwean government has doubled monthly disbursements under the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) from ZiG200 million to ZiG400 million, in a move aimed at clearing arrears and easing mounting financial pressure on schools, pa…

Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 11:28hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF wins three uncontested seats ahead of by-elections

Zanu PF has claimed an early victory ahead of the July 26 local authority by-elections after securing three wards unopposed, according to an announcement made today by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).The ruling party's candidates i…

Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 11:27hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter

Chivayo meltdown deepens mystery over R800m ZEC windfall

Flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo has sparked fresh controversy following a bizarre outburst dismissing growing questions over alleged multimillion-rand payments linked to Zimbabwe's 2023 election contract.In a phone call with The Zi…

Published: 24 May 2025 at 11:03hrs | 1678 | by Staff reporter

Parliament asked to investigate Chivayo

A Kwekwe resident, Emmanuel Nkosilathi Moyo, has written to the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, urging the legislature to launch an investigation into allegations of money laundering and corruption involving controversial businessman…

Published: 07 May 2025 at 16:29hrs | 3783 | by Staff reporter

Zec ducks Chivayo millions saga

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has pleaded with journalists to stop asking questions regarding the controversial US$40 million elections tender allegedly awarded to Zanu PF-linked businessman Wicknell Chivayo, insisting the matter…

Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 15:29hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter

ZEC appoints Simbarashe Tongayi as Chief Elections Officer

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has officially appointed Mr. Simbarashe Tongayi as its substantive Chief Elections Officer, effective April 1, following the retirement of Mr. Utoile Silaigwana in December 2024.In a statement releas…

Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 10:44hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter

ZEC removes 25,000 from voters roll

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has removed more than 25,000 deceased persons from the voters' roll as part of ongoing efforts to maintain an accurate and up-to-date registry ahead of upcoming elections.The announcement was made by…

Published: 31 Mar 2025 at 09:20hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter

So, it's now 'cool' to be a beggar in Zimbabwe!

This morning, I came across a social media post that left me both astonished and deeply disheartened. It featured a schoolteacher from rural Zimbabwe, publicly begging the controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo for a car. What struck m…

Published: 04 Jan 2025 at 19:29hrs | 1101 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zec pushes for political party registration

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has ramped up efforts to ensure that political parties are legally registered through an amendment to the Electoral Act. Currently, political parties only need to notify the electoral body of their e…

Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:55hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter

Kingpins of US$40m Zec scandal fear repercussions

Key players involved in a controversial US$40 million deal with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) are implicated in potential money laundering activities, as revealed by leaked audios and correspondence. The deal, orchestrated by fig…

Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 04:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

ZEC paid US$5.4 million for fancy V11 display boxes that it never used

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) splurged US$5 million on gadgets to display digital V11 polling station forms for last August's elections - but the devices, bought at inflated prices, were only delivered months after the polls, Zim…

Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'To hell with misleading social media reports': ZEC

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has this Friday describe as fake and misleading social media reports that it corruptly awarded tender to some individuals using inflated figures while confirming everything was done legally without bypassi…

Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 21:44hrs | 15 | by Gideon Madzikatidze

Chivayo hijacks US$40m corrupt ZEC deal

CONTROVERSIAL businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other high-profile government officials, corruptly got a windfall from a murky Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) US$40 million tender to supply e…

Published: 28 May 2024 at 12:47hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa bounces back

OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa continues to apply pressure on SADC, nine months after last yearâ€™s chaotic general elections, revealing in a Monday statement that the regional body is giving the matter "due consideration."Chamisa garner…

Published: 27 May 2024 at 17:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

126 vacancies unfilled at Zec

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) fired six employees while 126 vacancies remained unfilled, the commission's 2023 annual report has revealed, amid fears the gaps could affect the election management body to discharge its duties effe…

Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF legislators glorify Zec

THE National Assembly degenerated into a comical spectacle this past week after Zanu-PF legislators heaped praises on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, (Zec), for successfully conducting last year's general elections despite the scathing …

Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Chivayo frets over Zacc probe

SOCIALITE and businessman Wicknell Chivayo has mocked the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) for allegedly trying to investigate the source of his unexplained wealth.Chivayo has spent big buying cars for Zanu-PF praise singers and …

Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Teachers clash with Zimbabwe Electoral Commission over election dues

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has failed to pay some teachers for work done during the  disputed August elections, it has been learnt.It is not clear why the Zec paid some teachers and left out others despite them signing th…

Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 08:12hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Zec will not entertain any complaints of rigging and electoral malpractices

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will not entertain any complaints of rigging and electoral malpractices raised by opposition party candidates in the Gutu West constituency by-election held on Saturday.Zanu-PF candidate John…

Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:27hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

It's wrong for ZEC to accept foreign funding

The EU's notification of its suspension of support for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission [ZEC] is an unacceptable use of donor funds to seek to influence and control an independent Chapter 12 constitutional body, and it is the clearest ugl…

Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 21:17hrs | 14 | by Jonathan Moyo

Zimbabwe's 2023 harmonised general election now done and dusted

The harmonised general election is over.Any continuing chatter or narratives about "fresh elections scaffolded by foreigners", or a "National Transitional Authority" [NTA] also facilitated by foreigners, is a self-indulgent pipe dream bord…

Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 20:34hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo

Same flawed process, Old pain continues

Recent elections showed that the brutal dictator and his murderous Zanu-PF party have strengthened their stranglehold on power in Zimbabwe.Their abuse of state institutions has worsened as they are now openly using ZEC and the judiciary to…

Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Dudzai Mukondorongwe

Ramaphosa speaks on why he congratulated Mnangagwa

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, under fire for congratulating President Emmerson Mnangagwa over his disputed re-election last week, says he made the statement based on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (ZEC) declaration the Zimb…

Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 20:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Why parallel vote tabulation becomes a problem

IT is not surprising but indeed disheartening that independent observers were arrested under charges that the police said would be revealed in court.When it served the interests of Zanu-PF, the party was comfortable with using civil societ…

Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Rekai Rusinga

ZEC deletes Presidential poll results from website

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has deleted last week's Presidential election results from its website.Its Excel spreadsheet has also been removed from the site, without the usual explanation.President Emmerson Mnangagwa retained h…

Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 20:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa does not have all the 12,374 V11s: The case of Chirumanzu-Zibagwe

Factually it is not true that, unlike in 2018, Chamisa this time round has all the V11s from the 12,374 polling stations that were created for the 2023 harmonised general election, because he and his CCC political party did not deploy poll…

Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 15:16hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo

Zanu PF is buying time delaying announcing result to 31 August. 'In the name of God, go!'

"Zimbabwe's election management body, ZEC, is seeking an urgent court order extending the period of announcing election results from 5 days as currently stipulated in the constitution to 8 days to allow "accurate collation of results" espe…

Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:27hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori

ZEC allays opposition fears of double voting; over 2,000 fake registrants

ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) Chairperson Priscilla Chigumba has allayed fears that over 2,000 'fake' registrants using counterfeit identity cards (IDs), identified by pressure group Team Pachedu last year, will be allowed to vote.Te…

Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe targets US$ 1,6bn tobacco exports

Zimbabwe has so far exported over 98 million kg of tobacco since the start of the marketing season as the country makes strides towards achieving its target of over US$1,6 billion in total exports, a major increase from US$900 million obta…

Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

ZEC unfit to run free, fair elections - Study

A NEW study on Zimbabwe's electoral politics, processes and institutions has found that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is deeply distrusted by voters, hence cannot be trusted to preside over free, fair, transparent, credible and l…

Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:13hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Reading the writing on the wall; 2023 elections

Notwithstanding the insinuated competitive advantage and ascendancy that Zanu PF purports to hold as the ruling party, its ride on the gravy train communicates a totally different narrative. The socio-economic factors that shape the politi…

Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 09:44hrs | 5 | by Matthew Dube Esquire

The evolution of Zimbabwe's voters' roll

A SHORT HISTORY ON THE EVOLUTION OF ZIMBABWE'S VOTERS ROLL AND WHY SECTION 23(3) OF THE ELECTORAL ACT IS OUTDATED, PURPOSELESS, UNREASONABLE AND UNCONTITUTIONAL.IT WOULD BE INSTRUCTIVE and useful to study and understand the evolution of th…

Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 11:57hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Moyo

'Can't continue to subject povo to sham elections to have their hopes crushed' argued Biti. He's doing exactly that, yet again

Zimbabwe's 2008 elections were a watershed in that Zanu PF was forced to show the world the sicken depths of depravity the regime would go to hang on to power. Before the 2008 elections, Zanu PF had been forced to implement some electoral …

Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:58hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori

Zec analogous to a midwife

The alleged alignment of Zec to the ruling party has been inferred from the way Zec has carried itself in terms of its oversight function in ensuring free, fair, credible and transparent elections.SEVERAL general elections in Zimbabwe have…

Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Dumisani Simango and Kudakwashe Nyoni

ZEC opposes CCC court challenge

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) filed opposing papers in the matter in which 10 disgruntled Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) members are challenging the electoral body's decision to refuse them to file nomination papers for the …

Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

The day Zanu-PF stole the election

WITH less than four days to go before the nomination court sits, the opposition is in disarray and still trying to find its way out of the political dust raised by Zanu-PF this week.The ruling party has laid its ducks in a row, but most is…

Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:11hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu

Zec to blame for electoral disputes

JUST about two months to the 2023 polls, the electoral environment has never been this murky ever since Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980.Never has the country experienced such a contested electoral process whereby at every turn, ne…

Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Chaos dogs Zec voters roll inspection

CHAOS continued to characterise the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s weeklong voters roll inspection in Bulawayo yesterday as many residents fumed after failing to find their names in the document.Others were no longer in the wards an…

Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Inside Elections: Stalemate in Manicaland? Perhaps not

This is the second in a series of (inside elections) articles examining the politics and voting patterns of 2023 general election expected swing/marginal National Assembly constituencies.To win an election in Zimbabwe, a candidate must get…

Published: 28 May 2023 at 12:39hrs | 1 | by Farai Chirimumimba

Knives out for Zec over voters roll

INDEPENDENT election watchdogs say they are worried that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) could manipulate the number of registered voters citing secrecy surrounding its management of the electoral process.They say the failure by th…

Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Give the MDC Concort Challenge a chance

There have been various reactions to the Movement for Democratic Change led by Senator Douglas Mwonzora in which the party is challenging the delimitation report produced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and gazetted by President…

Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 09:07hrs | 13 | by Kennedy Kaitano

Spectre of Zanu PF thugs rigging party primaries underlines folly of participating in 2023 without even verified voters' roll

"Matsotsi haagerani!" (Crooks do not cut each other's hair!) so goes the Shona adage. Meaning it is one thing the crooks playing their mischief on the unsuspecting public, when one of them is the victim; they do not like it one bit!All the…

Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:36hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori

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There is no constitutional loophole

Extending Zimbabwe's Presidential term of office

ED2030: Nothing stops Zanu-PF

Minister urges home seekers to verify with councils to avoid land fraud

MP Zhou calls for castration of child rapists amid rising abuse cases

Senator Tongogara demands clarity on disease-related deaths and national health strategy

Chamisa loyalists brands Timba as a 'rebel'

Vicious crackdown on Chiwenga backers

Mnangagwa's camp left in disarray

5 Zimbabweans convicted in £300,000 NHS fraud in UK

Student arrested for stabbing maid

Zimbabwe farmland surveys to be concluded soon

Mnangagwa hands over car, cash and house to Comic Elder

'Sanctions removal will unlock Zimbabwe's potential'

Zimbabwe resilient despite sanctions

Cowdray Park residents receive first batch of title deeds

Govt complicit in Penhalonga's environmental collapse

Zanu-PF is in panic mode

Man jailed after pleasuring himself while staring at woman sweeping

Cousin's creepy crush lands him behind bars

Woman smashes windows over 'stolen' man

Woman caught smuggling truckload of buckets across the Limpopo

Real Zimbabwe opposition is alive

When Christians mistake State House invitations for divine blessings

Zanu-PF wins Mangwe councillor seat after 20 years

Developers exploit BCC's tender flaws

Dangote expected in Zimbabwe for a potential US$1bn deal

Council employee loses fake qualifications case

Zanu-PF loving chief's woes mount

Pay cut for Harare bigwigs

There is no constitutional loophole

Extending Zimbabwe's Presidential term of office

5 Zimbabweans convicted in £300,000 NHS fraud in UK

ED2030: Nothing stops Zanu-PF

Man jailed after pleasuring himself while staring at woman sweeping

Mnangagwa's camp left in disarray

Chamisa loyalists brands Timba as a 'rebel'

Charamba 'explains' the Catholic land saga

Student arrested for stabbing maid

Dr Hans Schales of St Luke's Hospital passes away

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