All set for July 30 watershed polls
IT is an election like no other. With 23 presidential candidates, a staggering 1 642 National Assembly aspirants and about 7 000 hopeful councillors jostling to be elected in the July 30 general...
View ArticleSocial media new political battlefield
The fate of prospective political office bearers in this year’s general elections lies literally in the hands of the electorate, if technological innovations of the last few years are anything to go...
View ArticlePost-election Zim under Mnangagwa
On July 30, 2018, Zimbabwe will conduct its sixth presidential and ninth parliamentary election since Independence in 1980. With the exception of the legislative race in 2008, the winning party in...
View ArticleJuly 30 elections: The people, Chamisa and military factor
GIVEN MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s surging rise and excitement of Zimbabwe’s electoral politics ahead of the July 30 general election, and his vow to defend the people’s vote in the event of...
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#Zimbabwedecides2018: Live updates
Zimbabweans woke up early to join long queues to cast their vote in an election they view as the most critical after the 1980 one. This is the first election since the removal of Robert Mugabe viewed...
View ArticleMugabe votes in first election since ouster
Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe on Monday turned out to cast his vote at Mhofu Primary School in Highfield, in the first election the southern African country has held without the 94 year...
View ArticleZimbabweans vote in watershed elections
Zimbabweans on Monday voted in the first ever elections after long time ruler Robert Mugabe’s fall from power last November. Independent polls place Mugabe’s former deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa as the...
View ArticleMore than three quarters of votes counted, results expected from 3pm- ZEC
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission says more than three quarters of the votes cast in Monday’s harmonised elections have been counted with results of the poll expected to start being announced from 3pm....
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Ugly election dispute mars Mnangagwa slim victory
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was this morning controversially declared the winner of Zimbabwe’s borderline presidential election with a slim but hotly-disputed 2 460 463 (50,8%) majority, defeating his...
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Legitimacy crisis: Mnangagwa’s Pyrrhic victory
AFTER the coup that catapulted President Emmerson Mnangagwa to power last year, his Holy Grail in the election held on Monday this week was the quest for legitimacy: but it did not go according to...
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Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight explodes publicly
THE simmering political power struggle between President Emmerson Mnangagwa — currently ruling under military tutelage after coming in last November through a coup — and his co-deputy retired General...
View ArticleChamisa, Mnangagwa court battle explodes
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday issued a controversial directive which shocked a meeting of lawyers for the applicant and respondents, as well as one candidate in the recent disputed presidential...
View ArticleCIO bosses purges intensify
THREE senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) directors were yesterday fired, while two others were re-assigned in the latest round of fresh purges, as President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s...
View ArticleZesn under scrutiny over election report
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn), an independent electoral watchdog, has been under tremendous pressure from European Union (EU) donors, particularly Britain, to doctor and alter its...
View ArticleBattleground shifts to ConCourt
AS Zimbabweans anxiously await the outcome of the presidential election petition by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), which is set for next Wednesday, the two...
View ArticleZim slides back into a pariah state
Post-election violence that saw the killing of six unarmed people, the injury of several other protestors and the abduction of opposition activists has unnerved Western countries. This comes amid...
View ArticleBhora Musango: Numbers don’t lie
ZANU PF is set to launch a massive witch-hunt to weed out party members blamed for sabotaging President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a protest vote code-named “bhora musango”, that saw him garnering lesser...
View ArticleElection challenge solid – Biti
MDC Alliance principal, Tendai Biti, who is also part of the counsel representing opposition leader Nelson Chamisa in the petition seeking to overturn the result of the July 30 presidential election...
View ArticleAnother security scare for Mnangagwa
AN off-duty soldier from the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) unit last week sparked a major security scare at the Heroes’ Acre after he tried to smuggle a loaded Sig...
View ArticleConCourt: The major highlights
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) will today deliver judgement in MDC Alliance candidate Nelson Chamisa’s election petition after parties presented their submissions before a nine-member bench led by...
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