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Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter The Judicial Service Commission has appointed 35 High Court judges and 76 magistrates in all 10 provinces to arbitrate in electoral disputes and ensure rapid trial for political violence over the next six months in terms of the country’s electoral laws. The judges hear electoral petitions while the magistrates, who have […]

Blessings Chidakwa Herald Reporter THIS year’s harmonised elections will be held in a free, fair, credible and peaceful manner, a delegation of bishops from the All-Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) who interacted with President Mnangagwa yesterday said. The bishops from South Africa, Tanzania, South Sudan, Ghana, Zambia and local ones, who are in the country […]

George Maponga in Masvingo First time voters drawn from all the country’s 10 administrative provinces will today have an opportunity to interact with President Mnangagwa during an interface at Mucheke Stadium in Masvingo today where the Head of State and Government is expected to outline various programmes initiated by the Second Republic to economically empower […]

Peter Matika Bulawayo Bureau THE MDC led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora on Wednesday set yesterday as the deadline for aspiring candidates to submit their applications to represent the party in the August 23 harmonised elections. Sources said the decision by the opposition party was met with grumblings from some “former” party members who accused Mr […]

Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter HARMONISED elections that will be held on August 23 are a product of the liberation struggle that secured the country’s independence from British colonial rule and are an important part of consolidating the nation’s sovereignty, President Mnangagwa has said. The President said this in his weekly column published in the Sunday […]

Staff Reporter As the country moves towards the harmonized elections scheduled for August 23 this year, the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) is concerned about the conduct of journalists in promoting peaceful, free and fair polls. In an interview during the ongoing Train the Trainer Program on Reporting Elections and Peace Journalism, ZMC executive secretary Godwin […]

Zvamaida Murwira and Wallace Ruzvidzo PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday proclaimed August 23, 2023, as the day on which harmonised elections will be held, opening the door for political parties’ to start their campaigns in earnest and ending weeks of speculation. The Head of State and Government also fixed June 21, 2023 as the day on which […]

Wallace Ruzvidzo-Herald Reporter THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has dismissed claims by the opposition that the voters’ roll has been manipulated against their favour as “mischievous and preposterous”. Zec said the voters’ roll inspection exercise which is currently ongoing had been instituted to clean as well as fix errors and irregularities which some are raising […]

Nqobile Tshili-Bulawayo Bureau THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said everyone who registered to vote will not be disenfranchised as the electoral body will rectify any anomalies that will be detected during the ongoing voters roll inspection exercise. ZEC opened the voter’s roll for inspection on Saturday and the process which was supposed to end […]

Bulawayo Bureau PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to proclaim the election date in due course as opposed to yesterday as previously announced in the media. Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba said this in a brief interview last night. “The election proclamation is going to be announced in due course. That is all I can say at […]

Political Editor AHEAD of this year’s harmonised elections whose dates will be proclaimed soon, President Mnangagwa has invited foreign countries interested to come and observe the polls. President Mnangagwa, who is the Head of State and Government, told a High-Level Debt Resolution Forum on Zimbabwe Arrears Clearance and Debt Resolution Process, which opened in Harare […]

Joseph Madzimure-Senior Reporter ZANU PF has set 62 polling stations in the 27 wards where party primaries need to be rerun to select the party candidate for local authority elections, the party’s National Political Commissar Cde Mike Bimha has said.  The primary reruns are needed because either the boundary changes for wards laid down in […]

Tendai Gukutikwa-Manicaland Bureau ZANU PF supporters in Mutare West constituency have been urged to stand united and shun protest votes in the upcoming harmonised elections. Speaking during a Women’s League rally at Bambazonke Business Centre yesterday, Secretary for Administration in the Women’s League who is also Minister of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Senator Monica […]

Wallace Ruzvidzo-Herald Reporter ZANU PF Women’s League is confident of ensuring that the ruling party reaches its target of five million votes in the forthcoming harmonised elections, Secretary for Women’s Affairs Cde Mabel Chinomona has said. The Women’s League has been championing income generating projects to empower women across the country as part of mobilising […]