By Court Reporter MDC Alliance chief elections officer Morgen Komichi was Saturday freed on $200 bail by Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo after spending two nights in police cells. Komichi is answering to a charge of contravening the Electoral Act after he allegedly gate-crashed a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission press conference to discredit the presidential election results
By Court Reporter MDC Alliance top official Morgen Komichi was arrested Thursday over yet another election related offence. This time, the former transport deputy minister was arrested for allegedly storming the conference centre early this month during results announcement of the July 30 presidential elections. According to a warned and cautioned statement he signed Friday
Just before announcing the results, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chief Priscilla Chigumba made a passionate plea for the country to remember the upbeat and peaceful atmosphere of polling day. “It is my most humble wish that we as Zimbabweans should continue in this spirit that we had on election day and that we should move on
By Staff Reporter THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it has been forced to pull down its website after it was hacked Wednesday by unknown persons. At a press briefing Thursday, ZEC Commissioner Qhubani Moyo said they were forced to temporarily stop the site at its busiest time because hackers started uploading “pictures” which the
By Staff Reporter THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it was not yet ready to announce results of the presidential elections as anxiety grips Zimbabweans on who among the 23 candidates shall be their next president. At a press briefing on Thursday morning, ZEC deputy chair, Emanuel Magade said there were still processes to be
By Staff Reporter PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF amassed a total haul of 145 seats while the MDC Alliance got 63 from Monday’s general elections, according to the final poll results by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). This was revealed by ZEC Commissioner Qhubani Moyo during a briefing this Thursday morning by the
By Agencies/Staff Reporter THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it has not received any official complaints from parties and candidates who contested the country’s election on Monday as it also announced official results will start trickling in around 3pm this Tuesday. Zimbabwe’s much-criticised election authority declared that there had been no rigging of the country’s
By Staff Reporter THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says it has reported two presidential candidates of Monday’s election to police on claims they violated the Electoral Act which forbids any campaign activity 24 hours of the plebiscite. Addressing the media Monday afternoon, Chigumba said the electoral body noted with concern, continued violation of the law
By Staff Reporter THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) was Monday called to issue a warning to journalists found conducting interviews of persons entering or leaving polling stations. The warning was made amid claims both local and international journalists were in breach of the Electoral Act through interviews within the precincts of voting centres. Briefing the
By Staff Reporter MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has revealed the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) shot down suggestions by the main opposition to have samples of the inedible ink set to be used for Monday’s election tested on a prisoner’s finger. He was speaking at a public meeting Thursday, which was called to discuss the
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on Friday issued a notice declaring that Saturday will be the last day of campaigning by all 55 political parties contesting in the July 30 election. The country will hold elections for the presidential candidates‚ parliament and local government on Monday. “The notice serves to advise all political parties and
By Staff Reporter MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa Tuesday gave the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) up to this Friday to give in to the opposition’s demands for poll reforms or they will escalate their grievances to SADC and AU. At a media briefing at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, Chamisa also said his party may
By Paidashe Mandivengerei ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) chair, Justice Priscilla Chigumba has rubbished Edmund Kudzayi’s cheeky claims she was involved in a love relationship with a cabinet minister. The former Sunday Mail editor took to twitter Monday to make the sensational allegations. He was adamant he had enough evidence to prove his claims. When reached
By Staff Reporter THE MDC Alliance claims hundreds of junior police officers in Bulawayo were Thursday summoned by their superiors to cast their votes through postal ballot, claims that were denied by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). MDC Alliance co-principal Tendai Biti told a hastily arranged press conference Thursday evening the process was illegal. Biti
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is making final preparations for the July 30 polls with a total of 5.69 million people registered to vote, chairperson Priscilla Chigumba said Monday. She told a press conference in the capital that the electoral body had set up 10,985 polling stations throughout the country and was in the process of
By Staff Reporter MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa claims to be in possession of evidence of how President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his regime intended to dump ballot paper printed in the presence of the opposition recently for another one sourced from a secret location with votes already cast in favour of his Zanu PF
By William Milasi ZIMBABWE’S rural teachers have written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) demanding that the poll management authority should come clean on what it had in store for those who would be deployed outside areas they were registered to vote. School teachers are often used as part of the country’s polling officers during
By Anna Chibamu ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) chair, Priscilla Chigumba has threatened to abandon the poll management authority’s regular update meetings with political parties, insisting their efforts were not being welcomed. She said this at a media briefing in Harare on Monday. Zimbabwe has three weeks left of a watershed poll in which President Emmerson
By Chris Mahove MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa says the African Union and SADC should step in and run Zimbabwe’s looming elections insisting the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) was not capable of delivering a credible election. Chamisa, who poses the biggest threat to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s continued rule, was addressing a press conference at
