News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 11:37
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday came face-to-face with the hassles Zimbabweans are facing in the ongoing chaotic voter registration exercise as he took his 18-year-old twins to register as first time voters. It took about 30 minutes for the...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Thursday, 09 May 2013 11:39
HARARE - Zimbabwe's forthcoming elections are on the ropes, with revelations that cash shortages are threatening a key voter registration exercise which has become the subject of fresh wrangling. Apart from the cash woes announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)...Read More
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Monday, 18 March 2013 10:13
HARARE - A voter in Mashonaland East Province has been arrested for taking pictures of the voting process in breach of the country’s electoral laws. Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Rita Makarau told reporters in Harare yesterday that police nabbed Marshall...Read More
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013 12:11
HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has admitted to the long-held view that it is staffed with a militarised secretariat. Addressing delegates at a workshop on conflict management in Harare yesterday, Zec commissioner Bessie Fadzai Nhandara admitted some of the...Read More
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Friday, 25 January 2013 11:27
HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is haunted by a perception crisis that it is embedded in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF, the commission’s chief has said. Zec, the body charged with conducting free and fair elections, is accused by...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Saturday, 12 January 2013 10:05
HARARE - Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chief Justice Simpson Mutambanengwe has returned home to prepare for the forthcoming elections. There was swirling speculation that the Namibian jurist could be replaced after extended period of absenteeism that saw his deputy Joyce Kazembe...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Wednesday, 26 December 2012 12:42
HARARE - A top research institute has said the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) secretariat remains wholly unreformed and full of intelligence agents and cannot deliver free and fair elections. The Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI), a public think tank said in a...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:33
HARARE - Electoral authorities say they are forging ahead with plans to allow soldiers and police officers to vote freely despite fierce resistance from some commanders. Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioner Geoff Feltoe told the Daily News that the body is...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Saturday, 01 December 2012 12:57
HARARE - Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Simpson Mutambanengwe has relocated to Namibia to continue serving in that country’s Supreme Court as a judge. Zec is an independent election management board responsible for all elections and referendum in the...Read More
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Saturday, 03 November 2012 14:42
HARARE - Voters will be spoilt for choice in next year’s presidential and parliamentary elections, with more than 20 political parties expressing interest even as the date is yet to be announced. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) confirmed at least two...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Sunday, 14 October 2012 12:48
HARARE - The signing into law of the Electoral Act signals the disbandment of machinery which political parties and civil society groups claim had formed the backbone of President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF vote-rigging. But with shock-troopers who reportedly include soldiers,...Read More
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