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Regime change foundation closes down
The Brenthurst Foundation, a Johannesburg-based think tank established and funded by the Oppenheimer family, known for funding regime change players...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 22:12hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
Is SADC and AU Fit for resolving election discontent in Zimbabwe?
There exists a significant question surrounding the capabilities of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union (AU) in resolving the discontent arising from the recent ele...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 17:12hrs | 11 | by Njabulo
SADC does not conduct elections in member states
The Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has clarified its role in member states' elections, emphasizing that SADC does not conduct elections but only observes them. The cl...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema stands firm on Zimbabwe
AHEAD of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration today in Harare which will be attended by some regional leaders after his controversial and hotly-disputed re-election, Zambian Presiden...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sadc must provide leadership, not platitudes
AFTER brokering a peace deal that gave birth to a Government of National Unity in Zimbabwe following the disputed 2008 presidential election, and again intervening albeit reluctantly in disputed polls...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'EU observers came to punish Mnangagwa,' says ZANU PF Canada
ZANU PF chairperson in Canada Regis Vusango has said that European Union observers came to punish his party President Emmerson Mnangagwa instead of observing elections.Speaking to Bulawayo24.c...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 22:20hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa says some observers went beyond mandate
President Mnangagwa has joined a growing number of people who have criticised some election observer missions, especially the SADC Election Observer Mission, for straying into areas that were beyond t...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe engages Palestine in observing elections
Zimbabwe engaged the Palestine observation team to observe the harmonized national elections held on Wednesday.One of the observation team and Palestinian ambassador to Zimbabwe told this publ...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 20:49hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
ERC, ZEN speak on arrest of election observers
Election Resource Centre (ERC) & Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network (ZESN) Alert 🚨 The Election Resource Centre (ERC) and the Zimbabwe Elect...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff Reports
Zec denies accreditation to US observers
With under 24 hours left before the nation votes in a general election, an observer team from The Carter Center, a United States based non-governmental organization, has accused the Zimbabwe Electoral...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 19:19hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Opposition parties, CSOs are seeing shadows in elections
As the August 23 2023 harmonised elections day draws near, there has been some shivers emanating from some opposition political parties and their funders as reality now is clear that they are facing d...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | 14 | by Mukachana Hanyani
Elections can lead to conflict if they are not free and fair
At least two dozen presidential, national, regional and local elections are held across the African continent each year.The sometimes fierce electoral competition, a history of violence or vot...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:43hrs | 16 | by The Conversation
Mnangagwa sets tough conditions for poll observers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says foreign observers will be invited to oversee this year's polls on condition that they do not meddle in the country's electoral processes.Zimbabwe will hold it...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kazembe's victory a bonus for the opposition
MDC Alliance supporters in Mashonaland Central are reportedly upbeat following the unconfirmed election victory of ZANU PF Mashonaland Central province ch...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 09:58hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Banishing West election observers will not stop Zanu PF demise - must rig economic recovery too
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his fellow coup plotters knew the world at large did not approve of the November 2017 military coup that toppled Mugabe. To earn himself some brownie points, Mnangagwa...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 09:47hrs | 3 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa says foreign election observers not necessary
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday hinted that Zimbabwe might in future not invite foreign observers during local elections, saying the Malawi presidential elections had proved that they were n...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Parties face censure for accessing phone numbers to canvas for votes
Political parties will be prosecuted and penalised for accessing personal mobile phone numbers and using them to canvas for votes from the electorate under the new Protection of Personal Information B...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The West judges Zimbabwe differently
The Western world judges Zimbabwe at a higher standard than it does other African countries, and that's not entirely a bad thing.The temptation is to demand that the European Union (EU) and th...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by newZWire
Commonwealth assigns Zimbabwe poll observer team
The Commonwealth has assigned a team to observe Zimbabwe's forthcoming elections. In May, President Mnangagwa wrote to Commonwealth secretary-general Patricia Scotland expressing interest, in pr...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 12:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Commonwealth to observe Zimbabwe elections
The Commonwealth election observer team, which will cover the country's elections for the first time in 16 years, is expected to arrive this week for a pre-election observation mission, as preparation...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
What if Zimbabwe's 2018 elections are not free, fair and credible?
THIS is the question that few seem to be raising ahead of the polls in a few months' time. This is exceedingly curious in the aftermath of the November 2017 events, the ousting of a sitting president,...Published: 04 May 2018 at 08:25hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
EU election exploratory mission expected today
Zimbabwe will today welcome the first European Union election exploratory mission in 16 years, a demonstration of confidence in President Mnangagwa's efforts to entrench democracy in the country....Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Ban AU, SADC election observers'
TOP academic and publisher Ibbo Mandaza has called for the banning of African missions from observing elections on the continent insisting they were a “disaster” as shown through alleged partisans...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sadc election observers jet in
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is living true to his pledge of free, fair and credible polling with his administration today opening unrestricted access for the first international election observer tea...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SADC election observers jet in for pre-election assessment
A Sadc mission arrives today for a week-long pre-election assessment, and will meet officials from Government, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, political parties and civil society.The visit,...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
How to avoid flawed elections in Zimbabwe
Elections are now the obsession of all as the way forward in the aftermath of last November's military coup, but the very big question is what kind of elections.However, Zimbabwe has a very po...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 08:43hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
Curing the Zimbabwe coup: Polls or transitional govt?
Since our last opinion piece, it is evident that there is growing complacency about both what has taken place and what is likely to take place in the aftermath of the coup last year.If history...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
'MDC Alliance ready for 2018 polls'
MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai and his Alliance partners head to White City Stadium today for the Bulawayo Alliance launch amid indications that some top MDC officials plan to boycott the event takin...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 19:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BVR not the panacea to Zim's electoral challenges
With the 2018 elections fast approaching, this week the Daily News speaks to Rindai Chipfunde-Vava, the Director of Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) on a number of issues around this crucial v...Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 12:06hrs | | by Maxwell Sibanda
Econet & Telecel: A tale of two telecoms companies
Twenty years ago, in the mid-1990s, a young telecoms engineer came across an idea for the future and brought it to Zimbabwe.He wanted to operate a mobile telephone service business. It was unh...Published: 01 May 2015 at 09:37hrs | | by Alex Magaisa
Obert Mpofu under fire, misconduct charges loom
ZANU-PF politburo member Obert Mpofu was in the eye of a political storm yesterday over claims he "unilaterally and unprocedurally" oversaw a plot to withdraw Jacob Mudenda's central committee nomina...Published: 01 Dec 2014 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
10-member AU poll observer team jets in
A 10-member African Union (AU) pre-observer team has arrived in Zimbabwe to assess the prevailing situation as the country braces for watershed elections soon.The team, which is led by an AU p...Published: 18 Jun 2013 at 16:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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