adminVoting 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.
Huge turnout for elections countrywide
Thousands of people thronged polling stations across the country to cast their votes for their preferred candidates for Presidential, National Assembly and local authority elections.
Presidential candidates hail peaceful polls
CANDIDATES vying for the presidency, who cast their votes in Zimbabwe’s harmonised elections yesterday, have 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.
Zim seeks to join BRICS growing influence
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga arrived here yesterday to represent President Mnangagwa at the ongoing BRICS 15th Heads of State and Government Summit as Zimbabwe seeks to join leading economies in the emerging global order for the development of its economy.
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.
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