HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF party has taken an early lead although it was still too early to tell in which direction the pendulum would swing since some of the results are still pending. Results of National Assembly polls released by the under-fire Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) so far put Zanu PF…
HARARE – Government has warned against inciting public violence with Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu saying the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will not hesitate to descend on those bent on fomenting anarchy. Mpofu’s statement comes as the MDC Alliance has gone public declaring it will not accept a defeat, arguing anything short of victory would…
HARARE – An independent Zimbabwean election monitoring group yesterday said the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission did not post presidential results outside the polling stations in some areas as required by law. The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) said results were posted at only 93 percent of the 10 985 polling stations countrywide. The country’s largest independent…
HARARE – As the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) began counting and releasing results for the National Assembly from Monday’s historic national harmonised elections, our teams in the provinces were reporting how observers and civic society groups were praising the peaceful environment which characterised the just-ended polls. This came as the MDC Alliance threatened to announce…
HARARE – It’s a deepening feud — playing out on TV stations and on Twitter and Facebook — that has now ballooned well beyond a small political quarrel. For President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his predecessor, Robert Mugabe, the rancour that started two years ago over a succession conundrum has never waned, except for a month-long…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe’s surprise interview on the eve of the elections on Sunday gave some rare insights into the suspicions the 94-year-old teetotaller had always had towards his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. In the interview, Mugabe narrated a series of events in which Mnangagwa, who succeeded him after a military intervention last…
HARARE – It is very pleasing to note that the country’s crunch national elections started off well and ended relatively peaceful, with no incidents of violence having been reported at the time that the Daily News went to press last night. It really is remarkable that such a huge and momentous process proceeded as relatively…
HARARE – A Murewa man has been jailed six months behind bars after being caught with a bullet during President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s last rally at the National Sports Stadium. Dozen Mukombero, 34, was jailed by Harare magistrate Josephine Sande after being found guilty of contravening section 4(a) of the Firearms Act which criminalises possessing ammunition…
HARARE – MDC Alliance official Luke Tamborinyoka has been cleared of all charges of defacing a rival’s political campaign posters. Tamborinyoka, a former spokesman of presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, faced two charges of contravening section 152 the Electoral Act split by the prosecution, with one alleging he connived with Tapiwa Murima and another in which…
HARARE – A Harare man has been charged for allegedly attempted to strangle a man after an argument sparkled by a Zanu PF T-shirt. Godfrey Murondodza, 37, who is a garden boy in Mt Pleasant, appeared before Harare magistrate Nyasha Vitorini facing two counts of assault. He is being represented by Tarisai Mukwacha and his…
