HARARE – The Daily News yesterday unearthed a massive election rigging scandal as millions trooped to polling stations in Zimbabwe’s harmonised election. As thousands of voters braved the early morning chill across country to queue hours before poll booths opened, just after 7am local time, our investigations team lifted the lid on electoral fraud that…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has said he will serve his full five-year term if re-elected to power. “Don’t you want me to serve my whole term, what am I elected for?” Mugabe asked after casting his ballot in Highfield. “Why should I offer myself as a candidate if it is to cheat the people…
HARARE – Amid fears that Zimbabwe is headed for another disputed election, the observer to whom almost every Zimbabwean is turning for guidance is an anonymous “concerned father” and alleged renegade member of President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party, with more than 300 000 Facebook followers. “Baba Jukwa,” who launched his page in March and…
BULAWAYO – The voting process in Bulawayo metropolitan Province started smoothly, and on time — with people braving the inclement weather to cast their votes. By 7am, long winding queues had formed at polling stations in the western suburbs — with adults and the elderly making most of the voting population, while youths were conspicuous…
BULAWAYO – Welshman Ncube, the president of the smaller MDC and presidential candidate, cast his vote in Bulawayo yesterday morning and urged President Robert Mugabe to accept the results. Mugabe told journalists at State House on the eve of the poll that he will step down if he loses the elections. “I hope that he…
HARARE – If Zimbabwe’s election delivers a win for the party he supports, Gilbert Zondo could be back home by the end of the year, reviving the teaching career he abandoned five years ago to live in precarious exile in South Africa. “It would be nice to stand in a classroom again and do the…
HARARE – Zimbabweans yesterday turned out in their millions to cast their vote but the day was spoiled by serious allegations of rigging perpetrated by Zanu PF across the country. The high voter turnout in yesterday’s watershed election is highly commendable, showing that people are no longer just sitting back and watching but want to…
HARARE – If you stood in a voting queue yesterday, well done. Yesterday was not a public holiday for sitting outside in the sun having a beer and a braai. It was the only day we’ll have for the next five years in which we’ve had a real chance to change tomorrow and change the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed resources group Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) remains in the red, incurring a $12,9 million loss in the year to March 31, 2013. The nickel producer recorded a $12,7 million loss in the previous comparable period. Conrad Mukanganga, BNC company secretary attributed the loss to low turnover and care and maintenance…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has postponed the 2013 mid-term Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) to an unspecified date in August. Gideon Gono, the central bank governor, said in concurrence with Finance minister Tendai Biti, “a post-election MPS will be issued on a date to be advised.” “Until then, banking-sector players and all…
