Day: August 24, 2023
Comment: Let us wait for official results
The nation voted in the 2023 harmonised elections yesterday with a few constituencies which experienced logistical challenges voting today. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) which is mandated to run and announce results of the elections is collating and verifying results from various constituencies. Social media is awash with purported results some of which are fake […]
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I am confident of victory- President
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa says he is confident of emerging victorious in yesterday’s harmonised elections urging Zimbabweans to ever maintain the prevailing peace. President Mnangagwa, who was accompanied by the First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, said this while addressing journalists soon after he and members of the First Family had cast their votes at Sherwood Park Primary […]
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Vote delays caused by court petitions — ZEC
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has said voting delays and other glitches encountered in Harare and Bulawayo for some local council polls yesterday were largely due to legal challenges political parties lodged in the courts in the run-up to the vote. Voting delays were experienced in some constituencies in Harare and the second city, Bulawayo […]
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Presidential candidates hail peaceful elections
CANDIDATES vying for the presidency, who cast their votes yesterday, hailed the prevailing peace in the country and the general environment under which the polls were held despite slight hiccups in commencement of the voting processes experienced in some areas. There were 11 presidential candidates on the ballot box, all of them, with the exception […]
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Streak is alive
AFTER waking up to a disturbing grapevine that suggested that the country’s celebrated former cricketer Heath Streak had succumbed to cancer, his family members and close associates later dismissed the rumour saying the legend was alive and in high spirits. Streak (49), who is one of Zimbabwe’s greatest bowlers, has been battling cancer for sometime […]
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Imports increase by 7,6 percent
ZIMBABWE imported goods worth US$782,9 million in July, which reflects a 7,6 percent increase as compared to US$727,4 million in the previous year, the national statistics agency, ZimStat has said. Procurement of critical raw materials, machinery, and equipment as well as consumables required by the country’s industrial sector dominated imports. Most imports are from South […]
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War erupts over control of Tongaat-Hullet assets
Zimbabwe has raised a red flag after reportedly being denied a chance to take part in the process of selecting a strategic equity partner for Tongaat Hulett Limited (THL) that was given to a Tanzanian firm, Herald Finance and Business can reveal. Kagera Sugar Limited, a sugar manufacturing company in the northwestern part of Tanzania, […]
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Voting extended to today
President Mnangagwa, using his powers under the Electoral Act, last night announced that voting will continue today from 7am to 7pm in those wards in Harare and Manicaland that received local government ballot papers late in the day, or not at all, and so could not open or opened very late. The delays also affected […]
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