HARARE – Four women politicians are seeking to be elected as president on Monday, notching firsts in a year boasting a historic number of female State House contenders. The four women face a tough contest in a race with 18 male candidates. They are running against entrenched incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa and main opposition leader Nelson…
HARARE – Tomorrow’s presidential election will be a tightly contested affair which will most likely not bring out an outright winner, analysts predicted yesterday. While the main presidential race will be between Zanu PF’s candidate President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance’s Nelson Chamisa, analysts said the vote can be seen as a referendum on Zanu…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it has printed 6,1 million presidential ballots to be used in the crunch Monday election, and also released figures for National Assembly and local authority elections. Zimbabwe stages the first national elections of the post-Mugabe era on Monday, for which monitors got clearance to deploy for…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said election results will be posted outside polling stations after counting has been completed. This comes after MDC Alliance official David Coltart claimed he had “received reliable reports that civil servants who are conducting the poll are being told by Zec that they are not to post…
HARARE – State-controlled broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has refused to flight MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa’s political advertisement ahead of the crunch election tomorrow ostensibly because it breaches hate speech laws. The ad, which the MDC Alliance pitched for a provocative first run this week, is in the form of a powerful intercession…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa wound up their campaigns by mounting massive rallies in Harare yesterday, ahead of tomorrow’s watershed national elections — with both heavyweights optimistic of winning the right to occupy the highest political office in the country. The huge rallies by Mnangagwa and Chamisa at the National…
HARARE – The wait is over as Zimbabweans on Monday vote to choose a new leader following the resignation of former president Robert Mugabe who was replaced by his long time aide Emmerson Mnangagwa who was sworn in to finish his term which ends at midnight tomorrow. That journey which started on November 15, 2017…
MUTARE – MDC secretary for defence and security Giles Mutsekwa has claimed his party is enjoying unprecedented support among Zimbabwe’s armed forces — a mainstay of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government — amid what he claimed was discontent within the ranks at dwindling salaries and poor economic stewardship. The former Home Affairs co-minister said the MDC…
HARARE – Southern African Development Community (Sadc) eminent persons’ observer mission has no plans to meet ousted former president Robert Mugabe. The mission, comprising 23 eminent persons from the Southern Africa region, is in the country to observe the elections across the 10 provinces from July 25 to August 1. Addressing a news conference in…
HARARE – Zimbabwean women must remove their nail polish on the July 30 election day or face having it stripped off by election officials. While chief elections officer Utloile Silaigwana was not picking his phone, a senior Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) official told the Daily News that nails must be clean so that ballot workers…
