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CCCC President hits out at ZEC
President of Changu Chimuti Chikapinda Chapinda (CCCC) David Chitimbe says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is charging exorbitant nomination fees after reassuring the presiding officer that money wa...Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:52hrs | 2477 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should be wary of Trojan horse constitutional amendments!
So, the Zimbabwe government is planning more constitutional changes.This is according to Justice, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, in an interview with the state-cont...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:12hrs | 236 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Constitutional changes on cards in Zimbabwe
Government has set in motion plans to transfer the responsibility to register voters from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to the Civil Registry Department in sweeping changes to the electoral ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:56hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Court dismisses CCC's appeal on Bulawayo Provincial Council matter
The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal made by the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) challenging a previous judgement of the Electoral Court that declared the opposition party had failed to file ...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 20:02hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's US re-engagement failure complete
ONE of the biggest ambitions that President Emmerson Mnangagwa haboured when he took over power following a military coup in 2017 was to re-engage the United States and end its embargo on Harare....Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 19:45hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter
Russian elections held in peaceful and conducive environment
The head of Zimbabwe’s electoral observer mission to the 2024 Russian presidential election Priscilla Chigumba says the Russo poll was held in "a peaceful and conducive environment" as well as run i...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 07:50hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
US spies busted, deported
FOUR United States nationals contracted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly sneaked into the country last month without notifying the authorities as per protoc...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:24hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T loses election appeal against Zanu-PF's Sithembiso Nyoni
THE Bulawayo High Court has dismissed a petition filed by MDC-T Nkayi North candidate, Chief Ndlovu, who was challenging minister Sithembiso Nyoni's victory in the August 2023 elections.In his...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:50hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
ZEC gazettes new legislators
CCC interim secretary general Mr Sengezo Tshabangu and 13 others are expected to be sworn in as Senators and members of the National Assembly next week after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission confirme...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 07:47hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
'2028 is too far, help us save Zimbabwe'
OPPOSITION Zapu Secretary General Mthulisi Hanana has declared that the 2028 elections are too far if Zimbabwe is to rid itself of Zanu-PF's looting elite and called for immediate action from those bo...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 19:07hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
CCC fails to field candidates for 06 April by-elections
The opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) party has opted not to field candidates in two wards for the upcoming by-elections scheduled for April 6, 2024.A faction within the CCC, led...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 07:11hrs | 1562 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC faction suspends Tshabangu
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) standing committee has suspended interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu pending a disciplinary hearing. The suspension is with immediate effect.In ...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | 2803 | by Staff reporter
EXPOSED: Al Jazeera secret plot against ZANU PF unearthed
Al Jazeera News finds itself embroiled in controversy yet again as reports surface regarding its meddling in Zimbabwean political affairs.A source close to the matter revealed that the news networ...Published: 23 Feb 2024 at 12:26hrs | 3276 | by George Tshuma
Zimbabwe is in hands of callous ruling elite
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, methinks Zimbabwe is in the hands of a callous ruling elite. It is my conviction that the country is not governed according to rule of t...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | 139 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Reunification sought by Tsvangirai 5 months before he died now in tatters
The implosion of CCC in Nelson Chamisa's hands is telling not only because it puts paid to Morgan Tsvangirai's widely publicised [see attached videos] last-ditch efforts - just five months before his ...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 12:48hrs | 648 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zanu-PF clashes with CCC over foreign Election Observer Missions' recommendations
Zanu-PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmakers are in disagreement regarding the implementation of recommendations from foreign Elections Observer Missions regarding the necessity for compr...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 09:22hrs | 1344 | by Staff reporter
Intraparty strife engulfs CCC
THE beleaguered Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has been plunged into further turmoil as internal divisions and bitter infighting have come to the fore, following the submission of the list of Sen...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 09:12hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to register political parties
Zimbabwean authorities are considering putting in place a new law that will compel all political parties operating in the country to be registered.The chief elections officer of the Zimbabwe E...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 14:39hrs | 2908 | by Staff reporter
Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies declared vacabt
The Speaker of Parliament, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, announced in the National Assembly that vacancies exist in the membership of Parliament in respect of Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies, ...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:07hrs | 464 | by Jonathan Moyo
Botswana opposition slams electoral body for benchmarking in Zimbabwe
Botswana's coalition of opposition parties has slammed the country's electoral body for traveling to Zimbabwe to benchmark its election procedures — the process by which the performance of a system ...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:09hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's resignation created more factions in CCC
THE CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate for Hunyani constituency in the August 2023 elections, Lovemore Chinoputsa has bemoaned the state of affairs in the two-year-old opposition movement, ...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:05hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now building a popular one-man dictatorship
One of Zimbabwe's seasoned political activists Lovemore Chinoputsa has painted a gloomy picture of the state of the opposition, saying its leaders have fundamentally departed from the late Morgan Tsva...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 20:14hrs | 1196 | by Staff reporter
'Recall law aiding death of democracy'
The constitutional provisions which allow legislators and councillors to be recalled should be revisited as they are aiding the death of democracy in Zimbabwe, The Carter Center has said.The U...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:41hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe electoral dispute backfiring
CATHOLIC Bishops yesterday said the unresolved August 2023 election dispute has plunged the lives of ordinary citizens into disarray, amid a deepening economic meltdown where the majority is strugglin...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:47hrs | 2898 | by Staff reporter
ZEC removes 4 562 dead voters from the voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is in the process of removing a total of 4 562 deceased people from the county's voters' roll.In an extra-ordinary Government gazette Genera...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:44hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has no two-thirds majority
Zanu-PF does not and cannot have two-thirds.Contrary to popular perceptions, the ruling Zanu-PF party does not and cannot have two-thirds majority in Parliament necessary to pass a constitutio...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs shower praises on Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF legislators have been praising President Emmerson Mnangagwa's State of the Nation Address (Sona), which painted a rosy picture of the country's fortunes despite the deteriorating socio-economi...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF legislators glorify Zec
THE National Assembly degenerated into a comical spectacle this past week after Zanu-PF legislators heaped praises on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, (Zec), for successfully conducting last year's ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:54hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's CCC resignation
ON 25 January 2024, Zimbabwean opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa quit.Looking through the dancing ropes, it is more like a boxing match. Remember when Mi...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 570 | by Vivid Gwede
The ambiguous essence of Valentine's day
As social beings wired for celebration, human life is marked by various milestones. Births are celebrated, puberty initiations are observed in some cultures, weddings announce unions, and even divorce...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 11:44hrs | 318 | by Bishop John Carter
Tshabangu facing the axe
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu is now facing the axe from the same opposition party that he snatched from its former leader Nelson Chamisa for allegedl...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:20hrs | 5929 | by Staff reporter
Zec hit with over 100 lawsuits
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has revealed that it attracted over 100 court cases over the secrecy and controversy surrounding its handling of the August 2023 elections with some still pendi...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:11hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo frets over Zacc probe
SOCIALITE and businessman Wicknell Chivayo has mocked the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) for allegedly trying to investigate the source of his unexplained wealth.Chivayo has spent ...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:10hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira's election under objection
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has revealed that the election of Chief Fortune Charumbira as the deputy president of the National Council of Chiefs was under objection.Charumbira, who...Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 06:30hrs | 1827 | by Staff reporter
ZEC cleans up voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has removed about 5 000 deceased persons from the voters roll as the election management body cleans the roll in terms of the Electoral Act.The removal ...Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 06:29hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu now a Senator
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu has wormed his way into Senate as one of the CCC Proportional Representatives after recalling several opposition legis...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 09:39hrs | 5174 | 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 | 97 | by Staff reporter
Intimidation, harassment galore in Seke by-election
AS widely expected the ruling Zanu-PF swept all the six parliamentary by-elections held on February 3, gaining what critics claim is its much sought-after two-thirds majority in the National Assembly....Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:45hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe Parly not responsible for recalls'
PARLIAMENT is not responsible for the recalls of legislators since their withdrawal is a preserve of the political parties who sponsored their candidatures and all Parliament does is announce what the...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:34hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's resigned MPs can contest again not as CCC members
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) members of Parliament who resign in solidarity with former leader Nelson Chamisa who quit the party last week are free to contest again in by-elections called to f...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 18:33hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF man becomes Pelandaba-Mpopoma MP with only 1 845 votes
Zanu-PF candidate Joseph Tshuma has won the Pelandaba-Tshabalala by-election following the polls held on Saturday.The seat fell vacant after Citizens Coalition for Change interim secretary gen...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 18:00hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF finally gets two-thirds majority
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has secured the coveted two-thirds Parliamentary majority, taking a significant step towards a potential third presidential term.Zanu-PF emerged victorious in all ...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:38hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's MP sworn in
ZANU PF Binga North Constituency winner Muchimba Chineka was on Tuesday sworn in as a National Assembly member as Parliament set for the first time this year.Chineka emerged as the winne...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 16:22hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bullying other parties
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of using its muscle to gain political dominance in Zimbabwe.In a paper unpacking the National Electoral Reform Age...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:48hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 897 | by Staff reporter
By-elections ballot paper distribution begins today
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is now 100 percent ready to deliver seamless by-elections on Saturday, with the distribution of ballot papers set to start today.ZEC has printed 230 000 ballo...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:20hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives Chigumba 6 more years as ZEC chair
Justice Priscilla Chigumba was on Thursday re-appointed as Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson on a six-year contract set to take effect on February 1."I am pleased to advise that ...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 13:41hrs | 846 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chamisa dumps CCC...members accuse him of betrayal
Advocate Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), issued a statement on Thursday announcing his departure from the opposition movement. The move has sparked controversy a...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 13:37hrs | 5760 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
CCC contests High Court ruling on elections
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Tuesday said it would appeal a High Court decision which barred its candidates from contesting in the February 3 by-elections. Last week, the High Court rule...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:36hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC to challenge dismissal of candidates at Supreme Court
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has refuted claims made by the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) that its candidates have been disqualified from participating in the upcoming by-elections. In...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:53hrs | 1654 | by Staff reporter
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