A beautiful facade: critical examination of the Norton by-election
The defeat of ZANU PF by independent candidate Temba Mliswa in the Norton by-election on 22 October 2016 has drawn a lot of reaction in...
Category Elections
The Big Saturday Read: The law and politics of voter registration and the voters’ roll in Zimbabwe
“The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”These words are often attributed to Joseph Stalin, the brutal...
The Big Saturday Read: Elections in Zimbabwe – demystifying Chinamasa’s glossy narrative of electoral reforms
BackgroundIn an interview with the Sunday Mail on 3 September 2016, Patrick Chinamasa, the Minister of Finance and ZANU PF Secretary for Legal Affairs, basically...
Big Saturday Read: The river at the base of the pyramid – young people & elections in Zimbabwe
“I’m 35 and I have never voted. I nearly registered in 2013 but they closed while I was in the queue. I haven’t decided what...
Urban land and political patronage: Understanding ZANU PF’s urban strategy for the 2018 elections
Farai Mutondoro, Mary Jane Ncube, and Manase ChiwesheAs Zimbabwean political parties get into election mode and start laying foundations for the 2018 general elections, it is...
The Big Saturday Read: The law and politics of the Diaspora Vote
A number of people have enquired about the issue of voting rights of Zimbabwean citizens currently living abroad, the Diaspora, as they are often referred to....
Should candidates be registered voters in their constituencies?
Does the law require candidates for National Assembly seats to be registered voters in their chosen constituencies? This is an odd question given that it must...
Why the rural vote is critical in Zimbabwean elections
There is good reason why the rural vote matters a great deal to Zanu PF. For the same reason, it should matter more to the...
What do we learn from the June by-elections?
Weekly News Review: What do we learn from the June by-elections? The June by-elections have come and gone and, as expected, Zanu PF won all sixteen...
ZEC in a Fix over By-elections
ZEC in a FixThe Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), the constitutional body that runs elections in the country, must surely be in some discomfort, after President...