Politics

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to reveal the date when this year’s harmonised elections today. Mnangagwa announced the latest development in Binga last Saturday where he was commissioning classroom blocks at Mabobolo Secondary School. This comes as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) opened the voters roll to the public for …

Parliament is next week expected to resume debate on contentious clauses in the Electoral Amendment Bill after a marathon and heated sitting which started on Thursday afternoon last week went into early Friday morning as legislators could not find common ground. Debate on whether driver’s licences can be accepted as …

All registered voters in Zimbabwe have been given a final chance to inspect their details on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (ZEC) voters roll which will be used for this years harmonised elections.According to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the elections will take place in August this year although he is yet to …

A banned documentary profiling Zimbabwe’s disputed 2018 elections finally airs on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) 3. The film, centred around opposition leader Nelson Chamisa who was a close challenger to Zimbabwe incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa, was censored by government after it was perceived to contain strong political messages which …

Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says the high nomination fees for the elections this year will not be reduced and told opposition parties to “stop wasting their time” complaining. He said the high fees were a closed chapter because they were approved by the “majority” of Members …

The sentencing of opposition Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) leader Jacob Ngarivhume (pictured) on charges of inciting violence after he called for peaceful anti-corruption demonstrations shows that Zimbabwe is a fully fledged authoritarian state, contrary to the gospel of tolerance that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been preaching since the 2017 military coup. …

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s national security adviser Sydney Mufamadi is in Washington at the head of a delegation lobbying the Biden administration and congressional leaders. This comes amid concerns that South Africa’s controversial stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine is jeopardising SA’s economic and political relations with America. Mufamadi’s team is …

Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters have allegedly hijacked the ruling Zanu PF party’s constituency WhatsApp groups to campaign for their leader Nelson Chamisa. As a result, Zanu PF has abandoned some of its WhatsApp groups after it emerged that the opposition had infiltrated the campaign platforms. Zanu PF …

The Zanu PF primary election re-runs held over the weekend went by without incident, signaling the end of the party’s candidate selection process ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections. The party ordered re-runs in some constituencies after violence and intimidation marred the previous votes. Addressing a press conference, Zanu PF …

As the country builds up to this year’s general elections, concern over the safety of media practitioners in executing their mandate has once again come under scrutiny. This came out in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Electoral Advisory Council’s (SEAC) engagement with journalists to assess the political environment. SEAC, …