GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVAMIRROR REPORTER MWENEZI – Election officers who presided over the March 26, 2022 by-elections are yet to be paid, The Mirror has heard. Sources said the officers were supposed to be paid US$40 per day from the day of training until the end of the voting process. The officers who spoke on condition of […]
GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVAMIRROR REPORTER MASVINGO – The just ended by-elections caused by Douglas Mwonzora’s recalls of opponents from Parliament and councils have cost the taxpayer a whooping US$60 million, a senior opposition politician and former Minister of Finance Tendai Biti has said. Biti told The Mirror in an interview that the estimate cost for the by-elections, […]
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has further exposed its inefficiency after it accepted MDC Alliance candidate Gideon Mangena’s nomination papers for Nkulumane constituency in Bulawayo, but disqualified him from voting. In a letter dated March 2, Zec notified Mangena that he would not vote, but would remain a candidate in the March 26 by-elections. “Please […]
PRESSURE group, Team Pachedu, which has been analysing the voters’ roll recently produced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for use in the March-26 by-elections, has demanded that the commission comes clean on anomalies that the electoral watchdogs have noted, which give rise to suspicions that the elections could be rigged. In a statement on […]