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Zanu-PF, CCC of accused of undermining electoral reforms
The Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC has accused the ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) of undoing the democratic gains achieved during the era of the late Prime Minister Mo...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 15:07hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa power retention scheme raises dust
Manoeuvres by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to amend the constitution have raised concern that the 82-year-old ruler wants to reverse progressive electoral reforms and return the country t...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa clearly needs tutoring on the mandate of election observers
It is most unfortunate and disheartening, or rather tragic and embarrassing, listening to President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa ranting and throwing a huge tantrum over international election observer...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 14:18hrs | 16 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe Elections lack transparency and credibility
The recent ruling by the court of appeal dismissing a request by the main opposition party (CCC) to have access to an up-to-date voter's roll is now a major cause for concern. Why is the Zimbabwe Elec...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 20:12hrs | 18 | by Simbabrashe Jingo
Jonathan Moyo gives tips on voters' roll
Leading political analyst Professor Jonathan Moyo has advised the opposition to request the polling station-based voters' roll from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) as that is the official reco...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 21:39hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Ghost voters haunt Zimbabwe elections
On election day in Zimbabwe this month, Tendai and his wife will leave home and head in opposite directions.The couple, from the central town of Kadoma, live under the same roof but have been ...Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 21:58hrs | 9 | 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 | 20 | 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A SHORT HISTORY ON THE EVOLUTION OF ZIMBABWE'S VOTERS ROLL AND WHY SECTION 23(3) OF THE ELECTORAL ACT IS OUTDATED, PURPOSELESS, UNREASONABLE AND UNCONTITUTIONAL.IT WOULD BE INSTRUCTIVE and use...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa's CCC wants Electoral Amendment Bill to be overhauled
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) believes the Electoral Amendment Bill which is in the second reading stage in Parliament needs serious amendments that include improving the design o...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:29hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF's gold Mafia is punishing those who voted for it too.' Where is solace in sniggered at ghost voters!
The Al Jazeera "Gold Mafia: Laundry Service" of the looting of Zimbabwe's gold has forced many Zimbabweans to sit up and pay attention. In my WhatsApp group there is a photo of a couple sniggering wit...Published: 27 Mar 2023 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Fresh voters' roll headache for Zec
A local independent election watchdog has dragged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to the High Court seeking an order directing the electoral management body to release a soft copy of the voter...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa is just not serious
Slightly into the second week of last month, CCC's Nelson Chamisa said something that, by the end of the same month, he was already contradicting, practically.In the first instance, he was in ...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:56hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Losing Tsholotsho South Zapu candidate accuses Zanu-PF of cheating
LOSING Zapu Tsholotsho South candidate Leonard Mthombeni has claimed rigging by the ruling Zanu-PF party in the March 26 by-elections, and vowed to go all out for victory in elections expected next ye...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:20hrs | 1 | 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
Politicised military threatens 2023 poll
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is abusing state institutions, including the military, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and judiciary, to maintain his tight grip on power ahead of the...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The voters roll is clearly a mess, so why is Zec trying to escape accountability?
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been failing to explain a number of discrepancies unearthed by data experts such as Team Pachedu after studying the voters roll raising fears it may have be...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name dropped in chaotic polls
TENSION is swirling within Zanu-PF circles ahead of today's potentially explosive politburo meeting amid reports of continued chaos over the just-ended provincial polls, name-dropping of President Emm...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:59hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Internal polls expose Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF faithful have unwittingly disclosed that they were given fake national identity (ID) cards to cheat in the party's internal elections, a revelation that renders credence to opposition claims o...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZEC removes 22 000 from voters roll
More than 22 000 dead people have been removed from the voters rolls in the latest batch of such routine deletions, with a notification and appeal process in place in case a mistake was made, while th...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:31hrs | 9 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zec to pilot test display of voters' rolls
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is next month set to initiate a pilot project of displaying the voters' roll outside a polling station during three by-elections to be held in Matabeleland Nort...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deficit of democracy in the opposition
Zimbabwe under President Mnangagwa has opened up democratic space in the country since November 2017. As the country celebrates the first anniversary of Zimbabwe's rebirth, there is reason to celebrat...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:17hrs | | by Philemon Mutedzi
Old crocodile fails to change its spots
It's been exactly a year since former President Robert Mugabe resigned, but Zimbabwe is still the house that Bob built — and the new President (Emmerson Mnangagwa) has done little more than paper ov...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:06hrs | | by Simon Allison
+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 Preside...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Thucydides' 'something is not quite fair' with elections - is no licence to rig elections
One of the things that has helped to drag us into the economic and political mess we are in as a nation is our failure to distinguish the wood from the trees, the trivial from the important, lies and ...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 21:21hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabwe will rise!' says Musewe, the dreamer - pipe dreamer ignoring reality of rigged elections
My brother Vince Musewe, the dreamer, is back with a bang! Ever since he parted company with Tendai Biti and his People's Democratic Party (PDP) a year or so ago, Vince has been very quiet. If he was ...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 18:17hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa, Mnangagwa battleground shifts to ConCourt
AS Zimbabweans anxiously await the outcome of the presidential election petition by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), which is set for next Wednesday, the two ...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 15:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dares Chamisa
PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday dared his opposition MDC Alliance counterpart Nelson Chamisa to prove the vote-rigging claims at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), setting the stage for...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells Con-Court that he won with 60%
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa claims in his petition challenging the outcome of the July 30 presidential elections that he won the polls with 60 percent, citing several mathematical inconsistencies...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 15:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How 2018 elections were rigged twice in 3 days
As the whole nation is still in shock regarding the outcome of the 2018 harmonised elections as well as congratulatory messages starting to pour in from foreign governments wishing the President-elect...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:42hrs | | by Mkhululi Tshuma
Justice Chigumba the Iron Lady of Zimbabwe election
On 30 July, Zimbabwe went to the polls which were tightly contested with a registered record of 23 Presidential hopefuls. Of these, there were two top horses, President Emmerson Mnangagwa (ZANU PF) an...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 14:18hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
ESR calls on Zec to ensure 'sufficient transparency'
The Election Situation Room (ESR) has called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to ensure sufficient transparency prevails in this year's election results aggregation, tabulation and publicati...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Spooks' in Chamisa anti-rigging experts
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has put together a team of experts in an attempt to forestall any form of rigging that may arise before, during and after the Monday poll.Harare lawyer Thaba...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Spotlight on poll observers
Zimbabwe heads for elections on July 30, eight months after the removal of Mugabe. The African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) have a mandate to ensure that the countr...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:22hrs | | by Siphosami Malunga
Boycott presidential poll, Chamisa!
Recently, the main opposition MDC Alliance leader's 40-year-old presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, who is challenging the ruling Zanu-PF's Emmerson Mnangagwa for the presidency, has been threaten...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:21hrs | 4 | by Simukai Tinhu
ZEC right on voters' roll photographs, says High Court
THE High Court has ruled that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is right on not issuing a voters' roll with photographs to political parties or any member of public, and the electoral body canno...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 organ...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
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-ap...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:34hrs | 4 | by Knowledge Moyo
Chamisa vs Democracy
The recent Afrobarometer fascinating survey results show voters preferences ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections slated for 30 July, are a great display of representative democracy. With less than t...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 15:17hrs | | by Anthony Mukondo
What now comrades 2?
Kenny Rodgers is probably one of the greatest voices this world has ever heard. In his compilation of hits there is one particular song known as The ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 13:01hrs | 2 | by Tatenda Magumise
'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....Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec completes printing of voters' roll
The 2018 voters' roll has been printed and does not have double registrations, nor dead or ghost voters, as it was specifically compiled to address the flaws of the 2013 voters' roll, Zimbabwe Elector...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF a league of hynas and jackals - Mujuru youths
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The general elections are 10 days away and we still haven't seen any electoral reforms, worse, the voters roll is still littered with ghost voters coupled with clumsy...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 20:14hrs | 2 | by NPP National Youth Chairman
Mnangagwa should postpone elections
Last week, I published findings from my research of six years on how certain individuals had abrogated themselves the role of choosing Zimbabwe's elected leaders through an elaborate election rigging ...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Mkhululi Tshuma
Simple rigging proof mechanism
Dear Editor, There have been numerous accusations and counter-accusations about possibility of rigging in the elections. It is hard to know what is true or false and what is possible and what ...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 18:03hrs | 3 | by S. Nhliziyo
92,000 'ghost voters' still on new roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has all but backed opposition claims that the biometric voters roll to be used in this month's election' is already in shambles with double registrations as wel...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anyone with a half a brain can see these elections are different
We are in the height of campaign season in Zimbabwe. Hello! I said we are in the height of campaign season in Zimbabwe! Yet, where is the violence? Where is the chaos?We are living in times of...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 17:28hrs | | by Joice Tsitsi
Voters' roll with pictures row spills into Court
Zimbabwean opposition political parties and pro-democracy campaigners have applied to join court proceedings of a registered voter who is seeking to bar the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) from re...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 14:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Priscilla Chigumba has neither Morals nor Shame
Zimbabwean people must understand that the decisions we take now affect the long future. ED may rape the nation and conduct a sham election and win aided by ZEC. What is needed is for people to be giv...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 14:16hrs | 5 | by Zanda Shumba
Zec must avoid costly poll rigging antics
REPORTS that independent biometric voter registration (BVR) and data science experts analysing the voters' roll have unearthed a suspected loophole that could have a negative effect on the credibility...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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