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Zanu-PF members use dead people's IDs to steal food aid
Some Zanu-PF supporters in Ward 19 of Zaka Central are up for stealing social welfare food aid by misrepresenting that they have more kids than they actually have, with them even using deceased people...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 12:48hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
ZEC removes 4 562 dead voters from the voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is in the process of removing a total of 4 562 deceased people from the county's voters' roll.In an extra-ordinary Government gazette Genera...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Eight bodies up for paupers' burial
CHITUNGWIZA Central Hospital says the bodies of eight deceased people have been unclaimed by their relatives since September 24, 2021.There were nine bodies but one has since been claimed by r...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 18:17hrs | 5 | by Erick Matotoba
ZEC removes 660 from voters roll
Over 600 deceased persons have been removed from the voters' roll by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, in terms of the Electoral Act.The list of the deceased people was published under Genera...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec to remove 6 000 more dead voters from roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will soon remove 6 533 more deceased persons from the voters roll to clean the document ahead of the delimitation exercise which starts this Sunday.In a...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC removes 32 010 from roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has removed the names of 32 010 deceased people from the voters' roll in line with provisions of the Electoral Act.The list of the deceased persons was ...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Companies Registry goes digital
THE Registrar of Companies has gone digital in a move that is set to plug loopholes in the system and curb the fraudulent grabbing of companies and properties by criminals.The new electronic s...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:18hrs | 13 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zec feels the heat over voters roll
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba yesterday went ballistic during a Multi-Party Liaison Committee (MPLC) meeting in Harare after she was grilled over anomalies in the ...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gun crimes haunt Zimbabwe
ON December 6, former detective and lawyer, Joseph Nemaisa, made national news as his exploits in defending his family against armed intruders read like a page off James Kawara's thriller novel, Sajen...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:04hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Toxic gases kill illegal miners
Two illegal miners died at Sos, Jumbo mine in Mazowe after inhaling toxic gases in a disused shaft where they were panning for gold on Monday....Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 07:10hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grief as more Cylone Idai bodies found in Ngangu
More bodies continue to be exhumed in the rubble left behind by Cyclone Idai in Ngangu with those missing their loved ones still optimistic they will recover them dead or alive.Ruth Mwayengeni...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 16:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
More machinery needed to recover Cyclone Idai bodies
The government says there is still a lot of excavation work to be done to recover bodies of the people killed during cyclone Idai with the process being hampered by lack of machinery.Governmen...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 10:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Protesters stole our guns, shot people, claims Army
The military yesterday alleged that protesters broke into police armouries and stole guns which they used to kill citizens, including a police officer, during last month's national shutdown that turne...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Split opposition helping Mnangagwa to victory
Zimbabwe's divided opposition could bolster the long ruling party's chances of victory after failing to forge a solid coalition for the country's first elections without Robert Mugabe. Twenty-...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by AFP
Multiple voter registrants 'in trouble'
The new voters roll compilation system has managed to sift through the provisional list of voters raising 'red flags' on individuals who intentionally registered more than once and face prosecution....Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 000 BVR voters die
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will open the country's Provisional Voters' Roll for inspection by the public from May 19 to 29 in preparation for the forthcoming 2018 elections amid reports t...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Magwegwe murder, the facts
LOVE, infidelity, abuse and death! These words can sum up the callous killing of three sisters in New Magwegwe suburb in Bulawayo last week, an incident that has sent tongues wagging with many...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 08:47hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Why ZANU PF admits it will never win a free and fair election
Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU PF party has all but admitted that they will never win a free and fair election - so why do they know that they are not - and have never been as popular as they have been delud...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 13:35hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ezra Tshisa condemns Zim sloganeering
Former ZBC presenter Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has condemned the Zimbabwean [political parties sloganeering which is based on ridiculing each other saying it is getting to mad levels."Zimbabweans sl...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
I voted multiple times for people living in the diaspora at the insistence of Tobaiwa Mudede
Tobaiwa Mudede, a Mugabe's apologetic civil servant who is somehow immune to retirement is a perennial electoral impostor, manipulator of the voters roll and an agent of corrupting the democratic elec...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 11:33hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
'Fake IDs fraud claims rampant'
COMPANIES and individuals are losing millions of dollars due to fraud involving fake identification documents, the Registrar General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede has said.Addressing officials from Govern...Published: 10 Jun 2017 at 17:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Did Nikuv hack Zimbabwe's elections? A credible article
In the past three years, a new slang word has come to be popular in the Zimbabwean capital. I've heard it in professional settings and at parties. It's a conjugation of the word nikuv, to say that you...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 11:02hrs | 1 | by Yael Even Or
Justice Rita Makarau speaks on Diaspora vote
DIASPORANS will only vote in the 2018 national elections if they avail themselves for the Biometric Voter Registration that will come up with the new voters roll and also come back home to cast th...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two minors drown while swimming in dam
Two minors aged 9 and 10 years drowned at Masasa dam in Mazowe West Mashonaland Central province on Friday the 21st of October.Mashonaland Central police confirmed the incident.It is a...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 15:08hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Suspected rapist axes 3, before killing self
A Hurungwe man went on the rampage on Monday night killing three people with an axe and injuring another before committing suicide after being confronted by his relatives on allegations of raping a 12...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
'Rapist' fatally axes three people, before killing self
A Hurungwe man went on the rampage on Monday night killing three people with an axe and injuring another before committing suicide after being confronted by his relatives on allegations of rapin...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 00:05hrs | 1 | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
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Zimbabwe on its knees, Tsvangirai says
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is ratcheting up the pressure on regional bloc Sadc, whose leaders are meeting in the Botswana capital Gaborone today, to once again intervene in Zimbabwe's wor...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two people feared dead in elevator accident in Bulawayo
Two people are feared dead after an elevator had a free fall twenty three floors down the NRZ building in Bulawayo.Information currently trickling in at ...Published: 04 Jul 2015 at 15:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
What a Helpless Government in Zimbabwe!
The Zanu PF is totally clueless and is unable to run the country but only using the Youth butcher MDC-T supporters like what happened yesterday to our Gogos who were to attend the No Reforms - No ...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 23:07hrs | 1 | by Prof Richard M Simango
MDC-T finally state their election reform demands - add to nothing but tinkering round the edges
Many people on this site and others have said MDC-T (the same is true of the other two MDC factions) should not be trusted to handle the implementation of the democratic reforms necessary for free, f...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 06:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC-T demands electoral and political reforms
From the time that the young and fledging political party known as the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), began to participate in elections in Zimbabwe in June, 2000, the ZanuPF regime has alwa...Published: 22 Apr 2015 at 10:19hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Zanu-PF heroism ended in 1980 - Abednicho Bhebhe
The MDC-T Organisaing Secretary Abednicho Bhebhe has said Zanu PF heroism ended in 1980 with the attainment of independence.He said since then and to date the party and its members have tu...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 06:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Why MDC will not participate in By-elections
THE MDC reiterates its position of non-participation in all by-elections proclaimed after the July 2013 general elections. The party remains dismayed by the persistent arrogance and refusal by the Zan...Published: 31 Mar 2015 at 12:51hrs | | by Ellen Shiriyedenga, MDC Director of Elections
Three burnt beyond recognition in road accident
THREE people were burnt beyond recognition and three others escaped with minor injuries when a Mercedes Benz they were travelling in hit a donkey and rammed into a haulage truck before catching fi...Published: 08 Nov 2014 at 08:44hrs | | by Loveness Bepete and Mpumelelo Nyoni
Arrest voters who feigned illiteracy
VILLAGERS in Zanu-PF's stronghold, Mashonaland Central on Friday demanded that Parliament should include in the Electoral Amendment Bill a clause that ensured voters who feigned illiteracy at pollin...Published: 05 May 2014 at 10:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
By-election voters' roll contains dead people
MDC-T today said it has unearthed shocking irregularities on a voters' roll that will be used during a by-election to replace the Ward 12 councillor Enock Mavhondo who died early this year....Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T begs EU to maintain sanctions - report
The MDC-T has requested European Union (EU) members to ensure that the bloc maintains economic sanctions on Zimbabwe, basing its argument on claims of fraudulent elections and a co...Published: 09 Feb 2014 at 08:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chronicle sued for $6 million
CHRONICLE editor, Mduduzi Mathuthu this Tuesday afternoon registered his first lawsuit since assuming control at the Bulawayo - based daily.A former editor at New Zimbabwe.com, the former ...Published: 28 Jan 2014 at 17:28hrs | 2 | by Siphiwe Sibanda
Zimbabwe property grabbers face imprisonment
Relatives who grab properties of deceased people under the guise of cultural norms face up to two years imprisonment according to the law.According to Section 10 of the Deceased Person's Famil...Published: 14 Jan 2014 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T officials arrested for gathering evidence of electoral fraud
Police in Chegutu on Friday night arrested a key MDC-T official who was leading the party's efforts to gather evidence of electoral fraud. Emmerson Mukandiwa, the district youth chairman for Chegutu ...Published: 20 Aug 2013 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Only 7% of Zim's eligible voters did not register to vote
ABOUT seven percent (7%) of Zimbabwe's eligible voters did not register to cast their ballots in the July 31 harmonised elections amid indications that the country ranks fourth out of 10 Sadc member-...Published: 22 Jul 2013 at 03:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Kombi accident victims named
Police have released the names of the eight people who died in an accident after a commuter omnibus they were travelling in burst its left rear tyre, veered off the road, overturned and rolled severa...Published: 30 May 2013 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pregnant woman dies after a botched op
A MUTARE family is at a loss of words after two major medical operations inside 24 hours conducted by a local gynaecologist on a pregnant woman ended tragically.Roselyn Mutenda died at a priva...Published: 10 May 2013 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
25 000 new voters register
Nearly 25 000 new voters have been registered since the mobile voter registration exercise began last week, with more expected to be on the voters' roll before the programme ends on May 19 in preparat...Published: 08 May 2013 at 21:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Girl (12) confesses to feeding on human flesh
A 19-YEAR-OLD woman allegedly initiated her 12-year-old aunt into the nocturnal world of witchcraft where they used to feed on human flesh in Buhera.The macabre real life drama, which reads li...Published: 03 May 2013 at 13:12hrs | | by Ray Bande
One million struck off Zimbabwean voters' roll
THE Registrar-General's Office had scrapped almost one million names of deceased people from the voters' roll as of Wednesday this week.Registrar-General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede said the voters' rol...Published: 03 May 2013 at 03:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Over 300 000 names removed from the voters' roll
Over 60 000 new voters have registered in time for this year's polls while about 345 400 names of deceased people have been struck off the national voters' roll in the last five months.The lat...Published: 14 Apr 2013 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe the investment place to be - Biti
London - Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance Tendai Biti has told investors in London, United Kingdom that Zimbabwe is putting it's house in order and is now a safe and lucrative place place to come and in...Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 09:50hrs | | by Thamsanqa Zhou
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