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HARARE – The Information Communication Technology  (ICT) and Cyber Security ministry has said personalised, unsolicited campaign messages sent to potential voters’ mobile phones by the ruling party could have emanated from an unprotected voters’ roll published on the Internet. While the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has staunchly denied surreptitiously leaking voters’ data to the ruling…

HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa says the opposition grouping plans to roll out more protests as the coalition ratchets up pressure on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to level the playing field ahead of this month’s harmonised elections. A buoyant Chamisa — addressing a bumper crowd of thousands of party supporters  who…

HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa says the opposition grouping plans to roll out more protests as the coalition ratchets up pressure on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to level the playing field ahead of this month’s harmonised elections. [Adz]

HARARE – Makoni Central MDC Alliance aspiring legislator David Tekeshe has condemned the state of Rusape District Hospital as a house of death due to a crippling drug shortage at the back of government neglect of the health delivery service sector. Tekeshe, who is challenging Finance minister and Zanu PF politburo member Patrick Chinamasa, said…

HARARE – The rift between the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and the country’s opposition parties taking part in the forthcoming polls has widened in the wake of the short-message service (SMS) saga that erupted on Monday, the Daily News can report. [Adz]

HARARE – A number of teachers are unhappy at their exclusion from participating in the forthcoming elections as polling officers. During harmonised elections, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) enlists the services of teachers and other civil servants to work as polling officers. The Daily News can, however, report that while the ministry of Primary and…

HARARE – The chairperson of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) Justice Luke Malaba has warned newly-appointed magistrates to refrain from corrupt activities. Sixty magistrates were recruited by the JSC recently to plug serious staff shortages that had hit the commission after government had imposed an employment freeze. On Monday, Malaba — who is also the…

BULAWAYO – ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa has been guaranteed to be MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa’s mentor and advisor in case the latter wins the next election due in less than three weeks. Poll surveys recently predicted a two-horse race between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Chamisa in the 2018 elections. A political memorandum of agreement…

HARARE – Irate Harare residents have threatened to dump putrid refuse bags at municipal offices around the city to protest delayed rubbish collection over a period of a few weeks. Residents are threatening to take the law into their own hands after rubbish piled up by roadsides in the city, often spilling over to block…

HARARE – Lord Carrington, Margaret Thatcher’s Foreign minister and one of the chief architects of a peaceful outcome to the 1979 Lancaster House Conference that ushered Zimbabwe’s independence, has died. He was aged 99. The Conservative politician, who was also Britain’s former defence secretary, masterminded an agreement that led to the first one person-one vote…