HIGH Court Judge Justice Isaac Muzenda will on Monday hear an urgent chamber application filed by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) seeking to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to ensure that teachers deployed as polling officers are entitled to vote in
DEBATE on what democracy is often ends in a stalemate, with no widely acceptable definition. By Tendai Makaripe The late Greek philosopher, Plato, viewed democracy as rule by the “rabble, unfit, unwashed and vulgar. Political economist, Joseph Schumpeter saw democracy as “a system for arriving at political decisions
HIGH Court Judge Justice Clement Phiri will tomorrow preside over the hearing and determination of an application filed by some prisoners seeking an order compelling Zimbabwean authorities to allow them to cast votes in this month’s general election. Justice Phiri will hear the application on Wednesday
Agitatedly, Justice Chigumba said the Zimbabwe Defense forces will certainly not be transporting the ballot paper but the printers will do so.
This comes as the opposition front, led by the MDC Alliance has been calling for ZEC to be transparent in the printing of the ballot paper which it says will facilitate a free, fair and credible election on July 30 which will be competed by 23 presidential
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) earlier this week closed doors on opposition parties after announcing that they are only open to grievances after polls. By Charles Lotara MDC Alliance, a coalition of eight opposition political parties has been at the forefront in calling for electoral reform, repeatedly
Former minister of Finance during the Government of National Unity (GNU) 2009-2013, Tendai Biti weighed in charging that the head of state’s remarks were a reflection of panicky given how his competitor, Nelson Chamisa continue to draw crowds to himself.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC T) led by Nelson Chamisa has threatened to make the country ungovernable should the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) fail to implement necessary electoral reforms that pave for credible elections. Briefing the media after meeting at the party headquarters in
In a statement, ZEC urged the electorate to make use of the dates in an effort to check for errors and avoid being turned away on election day.
"If Mnangagwa wants us to have a free and fair election, he should allow ZEC (Zimbabwe Election Commission) to invite independent election observers from the Africa Union, SADC and the European Union bloc
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