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HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF party has won a commanding majority in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections on Monday, sweeping aside opposition parties and securing a powerful mandate that will enable it to amend the Constitution. The result, based on official figures, redraws Zimbabwe’s political landscape, humiliating the main opposition party MDC that alternated…

HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has rejected President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election victory, saying the results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) early Friday morning were “fake” and unverified by his party. Zec declared Mnangagwa winner of the July 30 presidential election with 50,8 percent of the vote. Chamisa came second, with…

HARARE – Zimbabwean police said yesterday they would charge 21 people with committing public violence over an anti-Zimbabwe Electoral Commission protest on Wednesday that degenerated into deadly violence that claimed seven lives, and raised new concerns about freedom of assembly. The demo was in protest at the delayed announcement of the first post-Robert Mugabe election….

HARARE – Jet-setting Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who was arrested on Thursday in connection with his power deals which saw him being advanced $5 million by Zesa Holdings(Zesa) before work commenced, was last night condemned to prison before continuation of his bail hearing today. Chivayo and his company Intratek Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd are being charged…

HARARE – As the post-election chaos continues to simmer, President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to calm the waters yesterday by reaching out to Zimbabwe’s main opposition — calling on the MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to join hands with him to move the country forward. At the same time, Chamisa insisted that he had won the…

HARARE – As the post-election chaos continues to simmer, President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to calm the waters yesterday by reaching out to Zimbabwe’s main opposition — calling on the MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to join hands with him to move the country forward. [Adz]

BULAWAYO – As the country digests news that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has defeated MDC Alliance candidate Nelson Chamisa in the presidential election, an announcement that the opposition leader has said he will not accept as they did not have the opportunity to verify the figures, our Bulawayo staff writer Jeffrey Muvundusi yesterday took to the…

HARARE – An Independent Zimbabwean election monitoring group yesterday said the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)’s announced presidential election official results are consistent with their projections. The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) said the percent vote for each candidate as officially announced by the Zec fall within its Sample-Based Observation (SBO) estimated ranges. While President Emmerson…

HARARE: Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba has announced the presidential election result that is as follows:  Emmerson Mnangagwa: 2 460 463 votes – 50.8% Nelson Chamisa: 2 147 463 votes – 44.3% [Adz] [GoogleAd]  

HARARE – Officials from the MDC Alliance were on tenterhooks yesterday as police embarked on what appeared to be a crackdown on those perceived to have been behind midweek protests, which degenerated into violence — killing six people. [Adz]