WOMEN and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA), an organisation that advocates for the legal rights of women in Africa, says the prohibitive candidates’ nomination fees charged by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for the August 23 general elections disenfranchised female candidates. This comes after Zec conducted the nomination process at various courts on June 21, where…
By Ketty Nyoni nyonik@dailynews.co.z FORMER opposition stalwart, Eddie Cross, says the August 23 elections will test the country’s ability to maintain peace and national unity. Speaking last night on independent television station 3Ktv’s popular news and current affairs programme, Vantage, Cross also tipped President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF to remain in power after the…
THE government has embarked on a programme to rehabilitate all roads leading to polling stations around the country to ensure easy accessibility ahead of the August 2023 general elections. Speaking during a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said the progress made so far had been revealed in a report on…
Brandon JosphatSTAFF WRITER PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says countries with a predetermined outcome of this year’s elections will not be allowed to observe the polls. This comes after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission recently invited regional and foreign countries to observe the general elections on August 23. Speaking during the Miners for Economic Development convention in Gweru…
THE High Court has found Tapiwa Makore (senior) and Tafadzwa Shamba guilty of the gruesome murder and dismemberment of the former’s seven-year-old nephew and namesake in 2020. Tapiwa Makore (junior) was killed in a ritual murder by Shamba and Makore (snr) who mutilated the boy’s body so that they could sell its parts to a…
Brandon JosphatSTAFF WRITER THE High Court will hear the case of lawyer Lovedale Mangwana, who is seeking an order barring former Cabinet minister, Saviour Kasukuwere from contesting the August 23 presidential election, on July 7. Yesterday lawyers representing Mangwana and Kasukuwere appeared in Justice David Mangota’s chambers at the High Court in Harare for a…
GOLD trader Ewan Macmillan has “unreservedly apologised” to the government, key state institutions such as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and his…
ZANU PF will not just chuck out all its members who are standing as independents in the August 23 elections, it’s also mulling laying criminal charges against some of the dissenters. The former liberation movement’s secretary for security in the politburo, Lovemore Matuke, confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that Zanu PF viewed these candidates…
By Brandon Josphat THE High Court will today decide the fate of presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere after a lawyer Lovedale Mangwana filed an application to stop him from participating in this year’s elections. In his application, Mangwana wants the High Court to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to nullify Kasukuwere’s nomination as a presidential…
Brandon Josphat HARARE City Council has rejected two contractors who wanted to construct a modern infrastructure for informal traders at Mupedzanhamo flea market in Mbare. This comes as the local council shut down the flea market after violent clashes were reportedly being fuelled by Zanu PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) ‘agents’ who solicited…
