HARARE – Zimbabwean civil society groups have called into question the credibility and fairness of the July 31 election as President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF party seemed confident of an unassailable victory. Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, Media Alliance of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Women’s Coalition of…
HARARE – We live in horrible times surrounded by horrible men. Men we have always assumed human, rational and real. They are not. Since late Wednesday, July 31, we have been walking like zombies, drowning in dark shadows of pain and disbelief, hoping that this is just a nightmare where someone will wake us up…
HARARE – As results started trickling in following Wednesday’s elections in Zimbabwe, showing Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF firmly in the lead, senior opposition figures had already started condemning the electoral process as a sham. On Thursday, the Movement for Democratic Change’s Morgan Tsvangirai described the election as a “huge farce” while his secretary general Tendai…
HARARE – The African Union yesterday reserved its verdict on the bitterly disputed Zimbabwe’s elections amid mounting allegations of vote-rigging. The head of the AU’s 70-member observer mission, Olusegun Obasanjo, said yesterday that the poll was held in a largely peaceful environment but quickly added that AU observers cited “incidences that could have been avoided…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said yesterday it could take to the streets to challenge President Robert Mugabe’s victory in an election it rejects as a farce and which faces scepticism from the West. No results of the presidential vote on July 31 have been announced. But Mugabe’s Zanu PF has already…
HARARE – Serial political flip-flopper Jonathan Moyo was trounced in the Tsholotho North national assembly election by newcomer Rosemary Sipepa-Nkomo. The Zanu PF spin doctor lost his seat by a margin of 228 votes to Sipepa Nkomo of the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC, and wife of Sam Sipepa Nkomo, who polled 4 874 votes. Moyo’s humiliation…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF said yesterday they have attained a landslide victory in the 2013 harmonised election and all those who are aggrieved by the results should start approaching the courts for recourse. Patrick Chinamasa told a press conference held at Zanu PF headquarters in Harare yesterday that a total of 3,9…
HARARE – Registrar-general of Voters Tobaiwa Mudede yesterday denied manipulating the voters’ roll or rigging saying he is “walking quietly, innocently and undisturbed because I know the rules of the voting game.” Mudede, who has been elusive to the media before the elections, spoke at a rare press briefing, addressing mounting allegations of vote rigging….
HARARE – In the aftermath of one of the most closely monitored elections in southern Africa’s recent history, there have been divergent reports on the outcome by observer missions, different views from contesting parties. On Thursday, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC described the election as a “huge farce” while his secretary-general Tendai Biti said Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Eight people were yesterday hauled before the courts for election-related offences. Malvern Maketshemu, 33, Morris Nhamo Mhlanga, 23, are being accused of inciting people to vote for MDC while John Zengeni, 22, is being charged for impersonation after he allegedly tried to use his brother’s national identity to vote. The trio appeared before…
