HARARE – The Harare City Council (HCC)’s department of town planning is set to review its fees as the municipality continues to look for ways to boost its revenue. According to minutes of council’s Environmental Committee, HCC’s director of works Zvenyika Chawatama has been asked to submit an exhaustive list of fee categories to be…
HARARE – More than 100 residents in the high-density suburb of Glen View have endured flowing raw sewage on their streets for nearly three weeks with no action coming from the Harare City Council (HCC)’s water department. The sewer pipes reportedly burst last month, and up to now there has not been any action by…
HARARE – The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community has hailed the environment that prevailed before and during the just-ended polls, saying it allowed them to exercise their right to vote peacefully. Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) director Chesterfield Samba told Daily News on Sunday that while the election results are…
HARARE – A top South African advocate has been drafted into MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s legal team to fight the opposition party’s Constitutional Court (Con-Court) challenge to be heard on Wednesday. Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett, who was the lawyer for South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, joins Chamisa’s backroom strategists, with his lead advocate…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) came under heavy fire yesterday after it admitted to errors in its calculation of the presidential poll result, won by President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa. While Zec had declared the Zanu PF leader as the winner with 50,8 percent of the presidential vote, the electoral management body has marginally revised…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has put the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) into a tight corner going into the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) hearing on Wednesday, saying its handling of the presidential ballot was fatally defective. Chamisa is fighting tooth-and-nail to overturn the results announced by Zec, which declared Mnangagwa as the winner of…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has put the Zimbabwe ElectoralCommission (Zec) into a tight corner going into the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) hearing on Wednesday, saying its handling of the presidential ballot was fatally defective. [Adz]
HARARE – The Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) has urged churches to pray for Constitutional Court (Con-Court) judges who are handling MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa‘s case to be impartial. This comes after the Con-Court has set August 22 as the date on which it will hear the matter in which Nelson Chamisa is challenging…
HARARE – Anxiety has gripped Zimbabweans as they await the verdict of the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) in which MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa is challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election victory. In determining the petition or application, the Con-Court may declare a winner or invalidate the election — in which case a fresh election will…
HARARE – Coalition of Democrats (Code) presidential candidate, Elton Mangoma, has backed MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s Constitutional Court (Con-Court) challenge to the presidential election results. Chamisa is challenging results announced by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), which claimed Emmerson Mnangagwa won the presidential election with 50, 8 percent. Chamisa, according to Zec, got 44, 3…
