July 2013

HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has vowed to end President Robert Mugabe’s 33 year reign saying the massive turnout was a sign that Zimbabweans want to complete the stalled change of 2008. The MDC leader, who is making a third crack at the presidency, told journalists after casting his vote along with his wife…

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s general election drew millions of eager voters who endured long lines to cast ballots today. Enthusiastic voters formed long lines around the country, and election officials said there was a high turnout in most areas of the 6.4 million registered voters. People queue to vote at Crowborough North sub-office, Harare. The voting…

HARARE – High Court judge Joseph Mafusire has ordered the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to furnish Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party with a hard copy of the voters’ roll by 12pm today. MDC secretary general Tendai Biti had filed an urgent court application demanding an electronic voters’ roll in line with the Electoral Act….

HARARE – Zimbabweans go to vote today in the first election since the violence-wracked polls five years ago, in a showdown between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai with allegations of vote rigging marring the key ballot. The tense elections are seen as a crucial test for Zimbabwe, with leaders vowing to avoid…

HARARE – Even the most fanatic supporters of President Robert Mugabe will agree that life in Zimbabwe over the past 33 years of this country’s independence has been far from being the bed of roses that independence in 1980 promised. They will also agree that in fact the vast majority of our people who were…

HARARE – It is stating the obvious to say it is now or never for Zimbabweans as our long-suffering country approaches today’s crucial polls. For Zimbabwe has, for a long time now, been under a very dark political and economic cloud under the mismanagement of Zanu PF and President Robert Mugabe — notwithstanding many valiant…

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe says he is ready to relinquish power if he loses today’s “do-or-die” election but said his chances of winning were as good as they were in 1980. “If you go into a process and join into competition where there are only two outcomes, win or lose, you can’t be both,…

HARARE – Fellow Zimbabweans, on this day we have a historic opportunity to define and decide our destiny; to be the authors of our future. At least once in a generation, a nation goes through a single defining moment. The 1980 generation faced an election they were called upon to make a choice between minority…

BIKITA – War veterans in Bikita East yesterday confiscated thousands of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s campaign posters and dumped them in Dewure River. Tsvangirai’s campaign posters were swept away by the river and were seen floating all over. Edmore Marima, the MDC candidate for Bikita East, said his party was not amused by the war…