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Shadowy group invades Gwanda polling stations
FOREVER Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), a state intelligence front, has invaded polling stations in Gwanda Central and Gwanda South constituencies in an intimidation exercise in members of the shadow...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Last minute rush to register to vote
MISS Buhlebenkosi Dube just turned 18 and if President Mnangagwa proclaimed the election date before her birthday, she would have had to wait for five years before she could vote for the first time....Published: 31 May 2023 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'No voter registration at inspection centres'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says voter registration will run concurrently with the voters roll inspection exercise that commences on Saturday this week.Zec will open the voters rol...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec fails to pay for hired vehicles
OWNERS of several vehicles hired by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for the last biometric voter registration blitz held in March are yet to receive their dues almost two months after the prog...Published: 17 May 2023 at 21:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Zec over voters roll
INDEPENDENT election watchdogs say they are worried that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) could manipulate the number of registered voters citing secrecy surrounding its management of the elect...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
National mobile registration exercise extended
The Civil Registry Department will from next Monday send 129 national mobile registration units out again to process and facilitate the issuance of national documents required for voter registration....Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Zec in 'secret' voter registration?
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of colluding with Zanu-PF to conduct private voter registration campaigns targeting ruling party supporters only.Zanu-PF says it is tar...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC registers 6m voters
Almost six million voters are now registered on the voters roll and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is confident in delivering an election that will reflect the will of the people.ZEC ...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC extends voter registration blitz
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has extended the mobile voter registration blitz and voter education by five days."The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission would like to advise the public tha...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC holds 'go home to vote' rally in SA
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) South Africa (SA) branch on Monday conducted a "go home to vote" campaign march and rally in the neighbouring country as part of its voter mobilisati...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring voters flood Zec centres
Politicians from across the divide led the mobilisation exercise, ferrying supporters to the mobile registration centres.ASPIRING voters congested the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) mobil...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC lists 5 000 centres for registration
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has listed nearly 5 000 centres where citizens who are eligible to vote can visit to register during the mobile biometric voter registration which begins on Sun...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa not doing enough to convince the public
New entrants to the presidential race in Zimbabwe have set their sights on new voters as well as those who are undecided.By 10 June last year, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said ther...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 20:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC declares zero tolerance to violence
AHEAD of this year elections, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has declared zero tolerance to violence and will engage all stakeholders to ensure free and fair elections whose outcome is accept...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Youths must capitalise on final registration blitz
ELECTORAL watchdogs have appealed to unregistered voters to take advantage of next week's voter registration blitz for them to participate in the forthcoming polls.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commi...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Churches join voter registration blitz
LOCAL churches have taken up voter registration campaigns to mobilise more eligible voters to register to vote in the forthcoming polls.Christian denominations under the Zimbabwe Council of Ch...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's final mobile voter registration begins
THE final nationwide mobile biometric voter registration will begin next Sunday as preparations for 2023 harmonised elections gather momentum following the recent conclusion of the delimitation exerci...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
New boundaries binding for next 10 years
THE gazetting of new electoral boundaries a fortnight ago by President Mnangagwa has paved the way for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to begin preparations for the 2023 harmonised elections. ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:17hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Desperate Zanu-PF Youth League offers free transport for voter registration
Zanu-PF has embarked on a massive voter registration blitz for its members, with its Youth League executive pledging to ferry members to registration centres starting tomorrow.In an interview ...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence driving away potential voters
POLITICAL violence is dissuading many Zimbabweans from registering to vote in general elections, a recent report by the Election Resource Centre (ERC) has shown.ERC said the number of new regi...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, Matebeleland North, Matebeleland South risk losing constituencies
THE latest Afrobarometer survey says Bulawayo, Matebeleland North and Matebeleland South provinces have the least number of potential voters and could risk losing constituencies during the upcoming de...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Some apostolic sects shun ID blitz
REGISTRAR-General Henry Machiri says some apostolic sects are still refusing to get identity documents (IDs), death and birth certificates as government concludes its registration blitz today....Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec 'frustrating' first-time voters
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of "deliberately frustrating" aspiring first-time voters by unnecessarily delaying processes and offering poor service at registration centres....Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Sadc, a toothless bulldog'
THE Citizens in Action Southern Africa (Ciasa) has accused the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) of failing to effectively deal with electoral crises in countries such as Zimbabwe.I...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC will not continue 'whining' over electoral malpractices
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday said it was now a lot wiser as an opposition and was busy plugging loopholes for possible vote rigging going into the 2023 elections.Ad...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Why MDC/CCC participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy in an open book - read it for yourself
"Electoral watchdog, the Election Resource Centre says Zimbabwe's total eligible voters should hover around eight million, meaning that nearly three million people are not interested to vote," reporte...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 20:01hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zec to consider new voters blitz
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will consider another voter registration exercise after statistics showed a 2% increase in registered voters from 2018.On Tuesday, Zec released ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Call for another voter registration blitz
ELECTORAL watchdogs have implored the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to consider another voter registration blitz to offer citizens who have since acquired identity cards the chance to register t...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:05hrs | | 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
'Conduct a third mobile voter registration blitz' ZEC told
EkhayaVote2023 takes note of the BVR blitz Phase 2 statistics released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and celebrates its volunteers who operated in Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South Provinc...Published: 06 May 2022 at 17:32hrs | 10 | by EkhayaVote2023
Census: ZimStart begins 5-day mop up
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) will in the next five days, be mopping up those who were not counted for one reason or the other, during last week's counting.Yesterday, ZimStat s...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Census results in 3 months
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) says it will release findings from the 2022 Zimbabwe Population and Housing Census that ended yesterday in three months' time.However, a mop-u...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plea for voter registration blitz extension
CIVIC Society organisations, political parties and the public in general have pleaded with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to extend its mobile voter registration blitz which ends today....Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans snub Zec voter registration programme
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has bemoaned low turnout during the ongoing mobile voter registration blitz which ends on Saturday as analysts called for the exercise to be extended."F...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voter registration must intensify
THE Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development (Cotrad) in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) held a series of voter education activities in Masvingo province through v...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by Cotrad
Mnangagwa fires warning shot at ZANU PF members
ZANU PF members in the habit of name-dropping in a bid to aid their criminal activities must desist from the practice as their days are numbered, President Mnangagwa has said.Addressing the 11...Published: 23 Apr 2022 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zec's 20-day voter registration blitz too short
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has earmarked 20 days only for the voter registration exercise and is calling it a blitz.It can hardly be called a blitz when Zec is only providing one ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by A Mbire
ZEC starts second voter registration blitz after training
The ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) in Bulawayo last week started a voter registration second blitz after conducting a staff training.Zec Bulawayo Provincial Elections Officer Innocent Ncu...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 22:45hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Govt urged to capacitate Registry Department
GOVERNMENT has been urged to adequately fund the ongoing national mobile registration blitz following reports that the Registry Department is failing to issue identity documents (IDs) in some district...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Voter registration continues over holidays
MOBILE voter registration centres will be open during the Easter holidays which start today, and people wishing to vote in next year's elections should take advantage of that opportunity to register, ...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec rolls out last phase of voter registration
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday started rolling out the second and last phase of the mobile biometric voter registration (BVR) countrywide ahead of the delimitation exercise in Augus...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'One stop centre for IDs, voter registration blitz'
ELECTORAL watchdogs have called on government to unveil one-stop mobile registration centres for national identity cards and voter registration to ensure that citizens are able to vote in the general ...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Looming voter apathy cause for concern
STATISTICS showing that the number of registered voters has been going down over the years are revealing, yet disturbing especially after the voter apathy witnessed in the weekend by-elections....Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Group mobilises youth to register to vote
A CIVIC group Makokoba Multi-stakeholer Forum has started mobilising youth to register to vote in the next voter registration blitz ahead of the 2023 elec...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zec registers 80 000 new voters
MORE than 80 000 new voters were registered on the voters roll during the recently concluded first phase of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) blitz.Harare Metropolitan Province had the hi...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec registers 7 000 new Bulawayo voters
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) Bulawayo office yesterday revealed that it had registered about 7 000 new voter registrants since the mobile registration blitz was launched early last month....Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Only 3 600 register to vote in Matebeleland South
ONLY about 3 600 voters in Matebeleland South Province were registered to vote during the just-ended Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) blitz.Lack of suffic...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland North, South risk losing constituencies
MATEBELELAND North and South had the lowest number of new voter registrants during the jus-ended voter registration blitz, with analysts citing poor timing by the electoral management body among the r...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZEC fails to register first time voters due to shortage of IDs
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says most youths failed to register to vote during its just-ended voter registration blitz exercise due to a lack identity cards (IDs).ZEC had initially...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec doesn't respond to social media criticism
ZIMBABWE'S political parties lock horns in by-elections scheduled for 26 March, but there are allegations that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is tampering with the voters' roll ahead of the p...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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