PRESIDENTIAL aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere has found himself in an early spot of bother, after a lawyer launched a court action in a bid to stop him from participating in this year’s elections. The lawyer, Lovedale Mangwana, wants the High Court to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to nullify Kasukuwere’s nomination as a presidential candidate…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) is sweating over double candidature and the opposition has decided to take the legal route after some of the aspiring parliamentary and council candidates decline to withdraw from contesting in the August 23 polls. This comes as the CCC is battling to unscramble the perennial opposition scourge of double candidates…
DESPITE the many aspirants in the race, political analysts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s main challenger for the highest office in the land remains Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the analysts described the other confirmed nine candidates in the keenly-awaited August 23 contest for the presidency as…
ALL eyes will be on the nomination court today, as aspiring candidates file their papers to participate in this year’s crunch national elections. To this end, many Zimbabweans and political observers will be looking out for any surprises, especially in the nominations for the presidential and parliamentary elections. This comes amid fears that a sizeable…
THE casting aside of many senior members during the Citizens Coalition for Change’s (CCC) unconventional candidate selection exercise for the August 23 harmonised elections will likely create fresh fissures in the party. So say political analysts, who told the Daily News yesterday that this could see the party suffering its own version of “Bhora Musango”…
AS HAD been correctly predicted by the Daily News, it was confirmed yesterday that many Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs, including prominent sitting MPs, were cast aside during the party’s candidate selection exercise ahead of the country’s harmonised elections. However, CCC leader Nelson Chamisa later told the media in Harare that those who lost…
THE government says it shares the concerns by various interest groups that there is need to have a homegrown electoral system that can end the country’s long history of disputed elections. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, the leader of government business in the National Assembly, Ziyambi Ziyambi — who is also Justice minister —…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has warned that it will not hesitate to take drastic action against financial institutions that fail to follow measures meant to stabilise foreign exchange rates and prices. This comes after the RBZ resolved earlier this week to sell its foreign currency at market determined exchange rates through banks, to…
THE country’s opposition parties would be mistaken to believe that the current economic crisis will see them easily trouncing Zanu PF in this year’s elections. So say political analysts, who told the Daily News yesterday that the poor preparations for the polls by the opposition meant that they were on the back foot ahead of the polls….
IN A surprising development, an opposition legislator has regurgitated yester-year claims of disappearing ink on ballot papers. This comes despite repeated assurances by the authorities that the claims were false and that this year’s elections will once again be free and fair. Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, the Citizens Coalition for Change’s (CCC) MP for…
