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Chivayo, Zec corruption scandal spreads to SA
A JOHANNESBURG printing firm and its agent are being investigated by Zimbabwe's anti-corruption authority for price gouging on election-related material and equipment.Zimbabwe is no stranger t...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 14:48hrs | 1968 | by Staff reporter
ZEC scandal gobbles USD100 million
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) tender scandal, initially estimated at US$40 million, has now ballooned to involve over US$100 million in public funds. This massive sum was misappropriated thr...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 08:20hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
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...Published: 28 May 2024 at 12:47hrs | 15 | 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 ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:13hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
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A SHORT HISTORY ON THE EVOLUTION OF ZIMBABWE'S VOTERS ROLL AND WHY SECTION 23(3) OF THE ELECTORAL ACT IS OUTDATED, PURPOSELESS, UNREASONABLE AND UNCONTITUTIONAL.IT WOULD BE INSTRUCTIVE and use...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 11:57hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
WATCH: Zimbabwe police gear up for elections
GOVERNMENT is equipping police with adequate resources to deal with violence-related crimes ahead of the August 23 harmonised elections while police have set up a special investigative unit to deal wi...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec's refusal to avail electronic 2023 voters' roll dents election
THE voters' roll which is in a shambles and the persistent refusal by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to release the electronic version for audit have dented the credibility of the 23 August g...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 18:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Check your details on voters' roll
REGISTERED voters whose names are missing from the voters' roll and those moved to other polling stations or constituencies have to continuously check if corrections have been effected on the mobile U...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC demand credible, auditable voters roll
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has demanded an accessible, auditable, and credible voters roll ahead of Zimbabwe's 2023 Harmonized elections.The announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral...Published: 24 May 2023 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
6 million registered for Zimbabwe's elections
A RECORD six million people are registered to vote in the 2023 harmonised elections, up by 500 000 from the last general elections.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), which concluded its ...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reportetr
Lucky escape for Zanu-PF's Insiza North MP
A lucky escape for Insiza North MP Farai Taruvinga last night after his vehicle was hit on the driver's side by another car at Skuta in Filabusi. He walked away from the scene with minor injur...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 19:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC extends voter registration blitz
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has extended the mobile voter registration blitz and voter education by five days."The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission would like to advise the public tha...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aspiring voters flood Zec centres
Politicians from across the divide led the mobilisation exercise, ferrying supporters to the mobile registration centres.ASPIRING voters congested the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) mobil...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC lists 5 000 centres for registration
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has listed nearly 5 000 centres where citizens who are eligible to vote can visit to register during the mobile biometric voter registration which begins on Sun...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voters roll a mess, claims Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has admitted that the voters roll to be used in next year's polls is a mess and needs serious scrutiny and audit for it to be credible.Section 35 of the Electoral Act gives the Zimbabw...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec starts delimination exercise preparation
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has started training its workers ahead of the delimitation exercise as the country prepares for general elections next year.Delimitation, which is carri...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ZEC to embark on 10-day voters roll inspection
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will embark on a 10-day voters' roll inspection ahead of the delimitation exercise which shall be conducted in terms of Sections 160 and 161 of the Constitution...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:17hrs | | 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 | 7 | by EkhayaVote2023
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 | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Brighton Taruberekera
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 | | by Stephen Jakes
'Take advantage of drive to acquire identity documents'
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Deputy Minister Ruth Maboyi has encouraged the community especially those in the most remote areas of the district to take advantage of the Government mobile registr...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec rolls out last phase of voter registration
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday started rolling out the second and last phase of the mobile biometric voter registration (BVR) countrywide ahead of the delimitation exercise in Augus...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
By-elections went according to plan
LAST week, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) held by-elections to fill 28 National Assembly seats and 122 council vacancies which had arisen due to opposition recalls as well as deaths. The much...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:22hrs | 5 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets people wearing yellow clothes
POLITICAL observers have noted intolerant behaviour towards anyone donning yellow clothes associated with opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) theme colour.In its latest long-term el...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:15hrs | | 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 | | by Team Pachedu
Only 3 600 register to vote in Matebeleland South
ONLY about 3 600 voters in Matebeleland South Province were registered to vote during the just-ended Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) blitz.Lack of suffic...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
0ver 5 000 people register to vote in Bulawayo, says Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has revealed that over 5 000 people registered to vote in Bulawayo since the mobile voter registration blitz was launched early this month.Zec Bulawayo ...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC exposed over vote-rigging chicanery ahead of by-elections
IN a scandal which fuels fears elections are usually rigged in Zimbabwe and which further damages the image of the already discredited Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), the elections body, run by s...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec dismisses rigging claims
Fake poll rigging claims circulating on social media platforms and other media outlets are regular phenomena before elections as some parties want to blame the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for losing...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC Mashonaland West On Voter Mobilisation Blitz Ahead Of 2023
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has embarked on a massive mobilisation blitz to enlist potential voters in the ongoing biometric voter registration (BVR).The party's provincial chairman, R...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Voter registration marred by apathy
THE ongoing biometric voter registration (BVR) blitz has been marred by apathy with several potential registrants claiming that they are being turned away due to lack of documentation.The Zimb...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC sets up over 2 700 biometric voter registration centres
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will set up more than 2 700 mobile voter registration centres during the first phase of the mobile Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) drive that begins on Tuesd...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voter registration drive begins
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will set up more than 2 700 mobile voter registration centres during the first phase of the mobile Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) drive that begins on Tuesd...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voter registration blitz kicks off
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission will begin conducting a nationwide voter registration blitz next week to beef up the number of registered voters ahead of the delimitation exercise later this year....Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
NGOs hit back at Zec
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for claiming that rights groups were funding registered voters to re-register multiple times to discredit t...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigumba under fire over poll remarks
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for claiming that rights groups were funding registered voters to re-register multiple times to discredit t...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC 'bans' civic groups from conducting voter education
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has banned Civic Society Organisation (CSOs) that are not accredited with them from conducting voters' education, a move viewed as a blow to voter mobilisation ...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Opposition flogs electoral reforms dead horse, again
Faced with increasing pressure from its largely impressionable and excitable young members, who are growing impatient, and the counter-attractions presented by other opposition players like Jacob Ngar...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Matabeleland provinces face low registered voters
MATABELELAND provinces risk having fewer constituencies and wards when the delimitation exercise kicks-off as some areas have low numbers of registered voters. This comes at a time the Zimbabw...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Magaisa was secretly dining with a Zanu-PF faction
Having gone through a lot of Alex Magaisa's recent articles, it is fair that a response by a Zimbabwean youth is given. After the disastrous 2013 election, the MDC-T family and its president Morgan Ts...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:38hrs | | by Honourable Vincent Tsvangirai MP
18 000 dead voters struck off roll
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) struck off the voters' roll, more than 18 000 deceased people between January and December last year. ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba s...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) engages political parties
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in Bulawayo has engaged political parties in its efforts to improve voter registration in the province and avoid losing some constituencies when the commission ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Polad needs gravitas
Polad (an acronym for Political Actors Dialogue) is a voluntary platform for national dialogue launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa just a few days after the Ides of May 2019.Polad was fla...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Willard Chinhara
MDC secretary-general hopefuls speak out
The MDC today enters into a crucial week in which it holds its elective congress. Several positions are up for grabs and many officials are jostling - fair and foul - to fill them up. One of t...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's reform programme steams ahead
In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), this writer was asked what reforms President Mnangagwa had undertaken.The journalist asking the question was reminded that her ...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Zec warms up for 2023 polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commissioner has started warming up for the 2023 harmonised elections by convening a national multi-stakeholder conference aimed at reflecting at the July 30, 2018 general polls...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition will not observe ballot paper printing: Mangwana
Zanu-PF legal affairs secretary and party representative in the political party dialogue, Paul Mangwana (PM), has justified the presence of ex-military generals in the ruling party politburo. ...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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