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A South African company contracted to supply Zimbabwe’s 2023 election materials transferred more than R800 million to firms linked to controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo, according to a confidential report by South Africa’s Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC). The report, submitted to authorities including the South African Police Service, South African Revenue Service and Zimbabwe’s Financial Intelligence […]

Harare-Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, MDC says it is worried buy the appointment of a former army Major as the substantive Chief elections officer of the country’s electoral body. Utoile Silaigwana was appointed substantive Chief Elections officer of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) with effect from July 1, 2019. In a statement deputy national spokesperson of […]

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has testified in the case in which Tendai Biti is facing charges of contravening section 66(a) of the Electoral Act for unofficially and falsely announcing the July election results. Biti is alleged to have published purported results of the 2018 general elections in which he declared Nelson Chamisa as the […]

The under-fire Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has cut President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s win by a marginal 0,1 percent, but insists the error was purely clerical. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has revises President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s winning margin from 50.8% to 50.67% in opposing papers filed in the #ChamisaPetition after noting errors in own data highlighted by Nelson Chamisa’s electoral […]

Former Zimbabwean Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, David Coltart has displayed his contempt of the ink used on voters by ZEC. Writing on his twitter account,Coltart said the ink was wearing off easily. “We have very serious concerns about the ink used by @ZEC which comes off easily. These husband & wife voters […]

THE Commonwealth Observer Group to Zimbabwe has urged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to give an ear to the concerns of opposition political parties because the country’s readmission into the group will depend on the credibility of the forthcoming general elections. Speaking in a brief media interview on Wednesday, Mahama said Zimbabwe was ready for […]

Kupakwashe Makonye Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) yesterday applauded the move taken by ZEC on the review of the positioning of voting booths in a statement released . The proposed positioning which would have seen voters casting their ballots in full view of the polling officers,political party agents and observers was a threat to the […]

Zimbabwe’s security apparatus is on high alert to maintain the prevailing peaceful environment to ensure every citizen exercises the democratic right to vote, Zimbabwe’s New Ziana News Agency reported a cabinet minister as saying on Monday. Without referring directly to the MDC Alliance, Mpofu yesterday told journalists in Harare that those planning the demonstrations would […]

MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa after meeting Kofi Annan’s team talks about approaching SADC. He said the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) chairperson and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has written to him with regards to his demand for an extraordinary summit to discuss the “Zimbabwe crisis”.

Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson Priscilla Chigumba is in a sexual relationship with Mine and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando of the ruling ZANU PF, a media practitioner has revealed. In a long-awaited expose journalist Edmund Kudzayi revealed the relationship through a Twitter post on Friday morning. These allegations will seriously compromise Chigumba’s credibility to run […]

Tendai Biti led party has taken the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to court seeking an order to block the electoral body from posting ballot papers for the presidential election to applicants that have applied for postal voting and to redesign the ballot paper. Tendai Biti-led opposition political party cited ZEC and its chairperson Justice Priscilla […]

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of manipulating a forum of presidential candidates that meets weekly to dismiss Nelson Chamisa’s demands for administrative electoral reforms. This is revealed after it emerged that the under pressure Zec has now said through acting chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana it is prepared to discuss with Chamisa […]
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