HARARE – The streets of Harare were yesterday turned into war zones after the army was deployed to disperse demonstrators, unhappy with delays in the release of election results and perceived bias by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). [Adz]
HARARE – The European Union observer mission has called for announcement of election results in a transparent and accountable manner. The EU mission, in its preliminary statement issued yesterday, came amid opposition accusations that the election commission was deliberately delaying presidential results of Monday’s vote to favour the ruling Zanu PF and its presidential candidate…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s presidential and parliamentary vote represented a political watershed in the history of the country, and opened a new chapter for the country, election observers from the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) bloc said yesterday. The same verdict also came from the African Union and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa…
HARARE – A Harare man was yesterday slapped with a 30-day prison term for chanting MDC Alliance slogans at a polling station during the just-ended elections. Gift Jeffrey Chigawu,24, pleaded guilty to contravening section 141 (1)(c) of the Electoral Act which criminalises uttering slogans in the vicinity of a polling station at Warren Park Primary….
HARARE – Controversial Sungura artiste Hosiah Chipanga — who just lost the election contest for the Dangamvura-Chikanga constituency — has said he will not give up on his pursuit to influence the country’s political environment. Speaking to Eastern News after announcement of the poll results, Chipanga said he would explore other means to influence political…
MUTARE – Zanu PF Manicaland provincial chairperson Mike Madiro has expressed pleasure at the election results as urbanites slid into depression as rural voters swayed the election against the MDC Alliance. Zanu PF has won 19 of the 26 National Assembly seats in the province to the dismay of opposition supporters who thought they had…
HARARE – Political analysts have blamed the country’s opposition parties for authoring their own downfall in Monday’s national harmonised elections by failing to set aside their differences and contest the ruling Zanu PF as a united front. Zanu PF thumped the fragmented opposition in the National Assembly where only the main opposition MDC Alliance and…
HARARE – MDC Alliance official Luke Tamborinyoka has been cleared of all charges of defacing a rival’s political campaign posters. Tamborinyoka, a former spokesman of presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, faced two charges of contravening section 152 the Electoral Act split by the prosecution, with one alleging he connived with Tapiwa Murima and another in which…
HARARE – A Murewa man has been jailed six months behind bars after being caught with a bullet during President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s last rally at the National Sports Stadium. Dozen Mukombero, 34, was jailed by Harare magistrate Josephine Sande after being found guilty of contravening section 4(a) of the Firearms Act which criminalises possessing ammunition…
HARARE – It is very pleasing to note that the country’s crunch national elections started off well and ended relatively peaceful, with no incidents of violence having been reported at the time that the Daily News went to press last night. It really is remarkable that such a huge and momentous process proceeded as relatively…
