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ZimRights director urges poll reforms before 2028 elections
Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) director Dzikamai Bere says the country should begin dialogue around bringing the much-desired electoral reforms to try and minimise the possibility of ye...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 11:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs praises ZEC praise for holding 'free and fair' elections
Zanu-PF MPs Tuesday reduced parliament into a chorus of superfluous praise on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for conducting what they claim were free and fair elections, condemned as a fraud ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says re-election credible
During his address at the ongoing UN General Assembly in New York, President Emmerson Mnangagwa asserted that his recent re-election, which took place last month, was the result of a "credible" electi...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 20:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Poll observers embarrassed by what they saw in Zimbabwe
Veteran academic and political analyst Ibbo Mandaza says election observers, including those from Africa, were embarrassed by what they witnessed during Zimbabwe's disputed elections.Mandaza (...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:59hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa inauguration under a dark cloud
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa will today be inaugurated in Harare for a second term after his hotly-disputed re-election under a dark cloud of illegitimacy as the main opposition abandoned i...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC to challenge Mnangagwa victory
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has rejected Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) adding it will advise citizens on next steps as the situation dev...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EU poll observer mission boss says stunned by claims of Zimbabwe poll interference
EU Chief Observer Fabio Massimo Castaldo says he is amazed by state media claims his observer mission was keen to interfere with Zimbabwe's electoral processes to try and discredit next Wednesday's po...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere begs Zimbabwe poll observers
SELF-EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has pleaded with election observers and the international community to keep a vigilant eye on political violence during this year's elections....Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Conflicted Zimbabwe poll observers outed
DISGUISED as election observers pro-opposition activists are grossly interfering in the country's electoral processes making outlandish claims that seek to sully the whole process.This comes a...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere rallies citizens, poll observers against political violence
Exiled former cabinet minister-turned-opposition-politician Saviour Kasukuwere has urged Zimbabweans to stand strong in the face of continued acts political violence often blamed on some Zanu-PF suppo...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 21:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Goodluck Jonathan leads AU poll observer mission
FORMER Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will lead a joint observer mission of the Africa Union (AU) and Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) to observe the country's harmonised elec...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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
Zimbabwe has never had a fully democratic election, says Mandaza
POLITICAL analyst Ibbo Mandaza says Zimbabwe will only hold free and fair elections when the country addresses deep-seated electoral concerns that have hampered plebiscites since 1980.Mandaza ...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Vladimir Putin's party wins Russian polls
Russian citizens in Zimbabwe at the weekend exercised their democratic right to vote in legislative elections in their country with near final results yesterday showing an emphatic victory for the rul...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
US cancels observer mission for Uganda polls
The US will not observe Uganda's general election on Thursday as it claims that 75% of its poll observer accreditation requests were turned down by the electoral commission.Ambassador Natalie ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa not his own man
Zimbabwean media was recently awash with reports to the effect that MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, who recently embarked on a fruitless "pseudo" regional diplomatic offensive meant to sound Sadc leaders ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 08:17hrs | 2 | by Mapozho Saruchera
EU poll observer report: Public camaraderie with Chamisa
While Zimbabweans had largely moved on with life after the July 30 harmonised elections, the European Union (EU) has sought to drag the country back into election mode through the release of its...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:51hrs | 3 | by Bevan Musoko
Windfall for Zanu-PF MPs
Elected Members of Parliament from the ruling Zanu-PF party are set to receive $13 000 each for their victory celebrations, the Daily News reported.The windfall is being drawn from Zanu-PF's e...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets free Sadc 'advice'
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's declaration that he will reject any electoral outcome that does not favour him has attracted the attention of a regional network of poll observers led by former Sa...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:40hrs | 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
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
CIO agent harasses EU poll observers
A MEMBER of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) based in Chiredzi caused a scene early this week after he harassed two members of the European Union (EU) pre-election observer team, demanding ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by TellZim
Plot to muzzle gukurahundi commission
Elections lobby groups have raised concern over the Electoral Amendment Bill which appears to muzzle the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) ahead of make-or-break elections to be held this year....Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa compiles poll observers' list
Government is compiling a list of election observer missions which will monitor this year's harmonised elections, Foreign Affairs and International Trade secretary Ambassador Joey Bimha said yesterday...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
US govt, firms come to the party
The US government and major American firms are responding favourably to Zimbabwe's new political and economic trajectory, with global giant General Electric poised for investments in the country....Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa yet to formally invite foreign poll observers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is yet to formally invite international bodies to observe the forthcoming elections to be held by August this year. This comes as Mnangagwa told Briti...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe warned
President Robert Mugabe's declaration to ban foreign poll observers is "misplaced" and "perilous", as the move will put the freeness, fairness and credibility of the forthcoming 2018 elections in ques...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inside Zanu-PF's terror-stricken election stronghold
Uzumba Maramba-PFungwe (UMP) remains an enigma for many voters and poll observers in Zimbabwe.The remote constituency never fails to deliver for President Robert Mugabe and the poll numbers ar...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 13:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU calls for early deployment of foreign poll observers
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called for an early deployment of Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and other international election monitors and observers as political vi...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
ConCourt dismisses bid to invite UN poll observers
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday dismissed an application by one of next year's presidential aspirants, Ignatius Masamba, to cause Parliament toorder a national referendum to find out...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No to EU, UN poll observers,' says Mnangagwa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the decision by the government to bar the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) observers from participating in any Zimbabwe elections has not changed ...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 20:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN urges Zanu-PF, MDC-T to send 'clear messages of calm' to their supporters
Harare - Zimbabwe was set on Saturday to release the official results of disputed elections, in which President Robert Mugabe's party romped to victory, as the opposition held emergency talks over th...Published: 03 Aug 2013 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe in bid to block Obasanjo as poll observer
Zimbabwe is reportedly trying to block former Nigerian President Olusegum Obasanjo from observing the country's July 31 harmonised elections. Obasanjo who was expected to jet into the country ...Published: 25 Jul 2013 at 05:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission briefs poll observers
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it will approach the Constitutional Court to grant people who failed to vote during the special vote an opportunity to exercise their right to vote on the ...Published: 23 Jul 2013 at 19:06hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Sadc poll observer mission launched
THE SADC Election Observer team Monday launched its mission in Harare with Chairperson Mr Bernard Membe imploring Zimbabweans to hold the harmonised elections in a peaceful manner.Mr Membe spo...Published: 15 Jul 2013 at 20:45hrs | | 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
Sadc poll observer mission jets in for Zimbabwe referendum
HEAD of the Sadc electoral observer mission Mr Bernard Membe yesterday implored Zimbabweans to participate peacefully in the referendum slated for Saturday to ensure the exercise is free, ...Published: 11 Mar 2013 at 04:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jestina Mukoko charged with a litany of alleged offences
Police charged a top rights activist with a litany of alleged offences on Friday, hours after she handed herself in to the authorities, her lawyer said."Police have charged her for allegedly o...Published: 08 Mar 2013 at 11:46hrs | | by Sapa
Police summons Jestina Mukoko for questioning
Police Thursday have summoned a prominent rights activist for questioning, weeks after a police raid on her organisation ahead of key polls, a lawyer said Thursday.But Jestina Mukoko - a forme...Published: 07 Mar 2013 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Row erupts over Zimbabwe election observers
SHARP differences have emerged among the three political parties that form Zimbabwe's transitional coalition government over the invitation of Western poll observers as the referendum and crucial gene...Published: 03 Mar 2013 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF insists on barring foreign observers
A row over the role of international poll observers threatens to scuttle the electoral process as Zanu-PF maintains that Zimbabwe has the capacity to hold free and fair elections without observers' p...Published: 07 Jan 2013 at 13:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
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