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Polad members cry foul
Members of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) are attempting to reassert their relevance on Zimbabwe's political stage after months of being sidelined, but political observers say the platform lack...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 18:48hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Geza's voice echoes across a political void
ON March 26, a friend alerted me to a Press conference held by Blessed Geza, a Zimbabwean war veteran and former Zanu-PF central committee member.I also understand he recently gained significa...Published: 31 Mar 2025 at 09:15hrs | 1149 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Who is winning, Mnangagwa or Chiwenga?
The fired commander of Zimbabwe's National Army (ground forces), Lieutenant-General Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe, has taken an oath of office as Zimbabwe's new Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Minister....Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 11:56hrs | 3893 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
'There is no friction between Zanu PF and CCC!' boasted Mnangagwa
In Zimbabwe there is no friction between Zanu PF and the opposition party!" Mnangagwa boasted at the festive party held at his Kwe kwe farm to celebrate that Zanu PF and CCC opposition MPs had agreed ...Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 22:27hrs | 307 | by Wilbert Mukori
Twine Phiri warns dummy ZIFA presidential candidates, launches own manifesto
Zimbabwe Football Association presidential hopeful, Twine Phiri has warned all dummy candidates allegedly targeting to spoil the race in reviving the country's football fraternity during the forthcomi...Published: 04 Jan 2025 at 19:26hrs | 1216 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Mliswa claims ZIFA Ethics Committee compromised, to appeal
The Zimbabwe Football Association presidential hopeful, Temba Mliswa, who did not meet the eligibility criteria this Monday alleges that the country's football governing body is compromised and too co...Published: 24 Dec 2024 at 12:58hrs | 1038 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Mondlane accepts Nyusi's invitation to meet
Venâncio Mondlane announced today that he has accepted the meeting requested by the Mozambican President with the four presidential candidates for the October elections, to resolve the post-election ...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 18:49hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique's Mondlane lodges appeal to annul vote in Zimbabwe constituency
Presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane has lodged an appeal with the Mozambican Constitutional Council asking for the vote in the Zimbabwean constituency to be declared null and void, claiming that...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:37hrs | 1731 | by Staff reporter
SRC call for integrity in ZIFA elections
The Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has given its approval to the amended Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) constitution, applauding the changes and emphasizing the need for integrity as ZIF...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:41hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
Eligibility rules for ZIFA Presidential candidates questioned
Former Zimbabwe international and Notwane FC legend Fabian Zulu has publicly criticized recent proposals to restrict eligibility for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidency and key positio...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:09hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Botswana vote shaken up by angry ex-president
Botswana holds a presidential election on Wednesday energised by a campaign by one previous head-of-state to unseat his handpicked successor whose first term has seen rising discontent amid a downturn...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 09:21hrs | 3313 | by AFP
Jostling for top Zifa posts starts
While the date for the upcoming ZIFA elections is yet to be set, lobbying for votes is already in full swing. Bulawayo-based members of the ZIFA voting cluster met with two prospective presidential ca...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 17:43hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Underfunding leaves Polad on life support
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has positioned Sengezo Tshabangu, the new Secretary-General of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), as a prominent opposition figure amid the faltering Political Actor...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 11:30hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Doctors calling for Joe Biden to take cognitive test
Doctors are calling for Joe Biden to take a cognitive test and make the results public after a bombshell report laid bare his mental decline. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal revealed a conc...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 08:49hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF not moved by Chamisa's 'sensationalist politics'
Political parties and analysts have criticized former CCC leader, Mr. Nelson Chamisa's appeals to the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to invalidate the August 23, 2023 election results, ...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwas are dummy sucking cry babies!
It is intriguing to see how loud the cruel and oppressive wail when they are given the taste of their own medicine.We have seen the tears of the savagery late President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mug...Published: 27 May 2024 at 20:03hrs | 8 | by Israel Dube
'Zimbabwe is cursed'
OPPOSITION Zapu leader has described Zimbabwe as a cursed nation because of bad politics since the country attained independence in 1980.Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son to the late nationalist Jos...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:46hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
No peace for Mnangagwa
The final report on Zimbabwe's August elections by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has upheld its preliminary findings that the polls did not meet accepted regional and international...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'GNU is not a local herb: excluding Zanu PF would bring spectre of instability.' So hangs the sword of Damocles!
"GNU is not a local herb!" wrote Jamanda2 in Bulawayo24. "The West also made sure there was no third party or parties with which to enter into a governing alliance that would exclude Zanu-PF f...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 07:52hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'We (povo) lacked strategic thinking for electoral victory.' Quick burning grass fire passion will never bring change.
The Zimbabwe electorate’s political activism is like a grass fire, it will flares up but very quickly die down because there was not much to burn. Similarly there is not much in-depth knowledge of a...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 20:04hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe sanctions affect citizens, neighbours, says Ramaphosa
THE illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West are causing untold suffering among ordinary citizens and neighbouring countries, and should be lifted, South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, s...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zambia's Sadc summit on Zimbabwe call thwarted
AN attempt by a member State of the Southern Africa Development Community to call for an extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe has been thwarted after some alert regional bloc member countries saw it as a ...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mumba handed CCC the Sadc Electoral Observation Mission report?
BY covertly handing over the SADC Electoral Observation Mission (SEOM) report to CCC, as confirmed by the opposition party's fugitive spokesperson, Mr Promise Mkwananzi, the SEOM head of mission, Dr N...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 08:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
G40 and Gamartox embrace Mnangagwa re-election
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe, the widow of Zimbabwe's late founding leader, Robert Mugabe, was in attendance at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration ceremony held at the National Sports Stadi...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets down to work
FOLLOWING his re-election to the country's top office, President Mnangagwa has switched back to the indefatigable work ethic which characterised his first tenure with the Head of State and Government ...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sadc Troika members except Zambia sides with Zimbabwe?
IN a show of solidarity with Zimbabwe, two principal members of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security - except Zambia - have endorsed President Mnang...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
'Unity can save Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE'S economic and political challenges will continue to haunt the nation as there is no unity among the citizens, losing presidential candidate Trust Chikohora has said.Chikohora partici...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Polad to stay in place
THE Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a grouping of all presidential candidates who participated in the 2023 elections is set to return, President Mnangagwa has said.POLAD was first establish...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Presidential candidates concede defeat
SOME of the presidential candidates in Wednesday's harmonised elections last night conceded defeat, following the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's pronouncement of President Mnangagwa as winner of the ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 09:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is buying time delaying announcing result to 31 August. 'In the name of God, go!'
"Zimbabwe's election management body, ZEC, is seeking an urgent court order extending the period of announcing election results from 5 days as currently stipulated in the constitution to 8 days to all...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:27hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe remains polarised
ZIMBABWEANS on Wednesday exercised their right to vote by participating in the harmonised elections.The elections were fraught with technical and logistical glitches, but the results showed th...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 16:51hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
ZEC says not captured
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday said it remained firm and focused on its work and reports on social media that it had been captured are false, misleading and ridiculous.In it...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 08:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Battles to watch in today's Zimbabwe election
AFTER five very short years, we are back to the polls.It feels it was just yesterday when President Mnangagwa gave us that signature dance to the Kutonga Kwaro soundtrack. It feels it was just...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:33hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties, citizens geared for poll
ZIMBABWEANS in their millions will today cast their votes across the country to determine their future in an election that has largely been peaceful.Yesterday, political parties from across th...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa preparing next Zimbabwe Cabinet
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa exuded confidence as he promised to win tomorrow's harmonised elections telling thousands of his supporters yesterday that he has a...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 06:27hrs | 5 | by Stafff reporter
2-man race in battle for Zimbabwe State House
AS things stand, it is abundantly clear and an inescapable fact that the battle for State House is squarely between Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa and President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 16 | by Lovemore Moyo
'Zanu-PF scared of losing'
Zanu-PF yesterday admitted that it is afraid of losing elections scheduled for next Wednesday after skirting questions about accepting election results if the poll outcome favours the opposition....Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
EU-EOM observer team in Zimbabwe in bribery storm?
THE European Union Election Observer Mission (EU-EOM) is doling whiskeys, grocery vouchers, fuel coupons and other handouts to select journalists across the country as part of a clandestine operation ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC cries foul over ballot paper design
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has raised concerns about the design and printing process of the ballot paper for the upcoming elections.CCC deputy secretary for elections, Ellen Shiri...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 22:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gave candidates useless voters rolls
Addressing election observers yesterday, the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Justice Priscilla Chigumba said ZEC gave local authority candidates copies of the ward voters roll, Nation...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 22:14hrs | 9 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mwonzora says those set to contest Mnangagwa exercising 'foolish bravery'
OPPOSITION MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora has said opposition parties that will contest incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party at Zimbabwe's August 23 General Elections are exercisi...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:55hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Next Zimbabwe President faces uphill task
ZIMBABWE is facing a host of pressing challenges that voters dearly want the next president to address. Persistently high inflation, elevated interest rates, and a slumping and volatile Zimbabwe dolla...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 14 | by Jonathan Munemo
ZEC declares readiness for credible, free polls
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is ready to deliver free and credible elections next Wednesday with most of the logistical arrangements now in place.The chairperson of the electoral body, Ju...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's only female presidential candidate was forced to drink bottle water
United Zimbabwe Alliance leader and president Elisabeth Valerio has highlighted the service delivery plight that many Zimbabweans, particularly those in rural areas, continue to face.Valerio, ...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ballot printing back on track
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has started printing ballot papers for the presidential election and for more than a dozen National Assembly constituencies that had been affected by poll-relat...Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 21:59hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Zec put on spot over Mwonzora pullout?
LEGISLATIVE watchdog, Veritas, has called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to remove MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora's name from the ballot paper for presidential candidates to avoid confusing...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's name to remain on the presidential ballot
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora's name will remain on the presidential ballot despite his withdrawal from the race, the Zimbabwe Elections Commission has said.A candidate ca...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 23:36hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora withdraws from presidential race
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora on Tuesday announced he was withdrawing from the race to become Zimbabwe's next president, describing the August 23 election as a "sham and a farce."Mwonzora said...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 22:27hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
I am a descendant of Allan Wilson, says presidential candidate
The August 23 harmonised elections are fast approaching with just over two weeks left. As The Herald continues to profile Presidential candidates, our reporter Wallace Ruzvidzo (WR), caught up with th...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Over 17 000 qualify for postal voting: ZEC
OVER 17 000 voters drawn from the diplomatic service, uniformed forces and election officials have been cleared to cast their votes ahead of polling day on August 23 when they will be away on official...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:20hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
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