Online Reporter
Joseph Madzimure
Zimpapers Politics Hub
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has proclaimed December 20, 2025, as the date for a by-election in Bulawayo’s Nkulumane Constituency.
The Nomination Court will sit on Thursday, November 20, 2025, to receive names of candidates interested in contesting in the by-election.
The seat fell vacant following the death of Mr Desire Moyo of CCC in a car accident on October 10, 2025.
Mr Moyo’s vehicle hit an elephant near Shangani on the Harare-Bulawayo highway while he was returning from Parliament with four colleagues who survived the crash.
Mr Moyo, a first-term MP, former teacher and acclaimed poet, was confirmed dead at the scene. The announcement of the dates was made in a Statutory Instrument of a Government Gazette published yesterday.
“Whereas it is provided by section 39(2) of the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13] that after the President has been notified in terms of the said section of vacancies in the membership of Parliament, he shall issue a proclamation ordering a new election to fill the vacancies in the same manner, mutatis mutandis, as is provided in section 38 of the said Act in regard to a general election;
“And whereas the Speaker of Parliament has notified me in writing on October 31, 2025, of a vacancy which has arisen by reason of the death of Honourable Desire Moyo on October 10, 2025, who was the elected member of the National Assembly for Nkulumane Constituency:
“Now, therefore, under and by virtue of the powers vested in the President as aforesaid, I do, by this proclamation—
(a) order new elections for the constituency of Nkulumane; and
(b) fix Thursday, the 20th of November 2025, as the date on which the nomination court shall sit, commencing at 10 o’clock in the morning, at the Magistrates’ Court, Court 5, Tredgold Building, Leopold Takawira Avenue, Bulawayo, for the purpose of receiving nominations of candidates for election as member of the National Assembly for Nkulumane; and
(c) fix Saturday, the 20th of December 2025, as the day on which a poll shall be taken if a poll becomes necessary in terms of section 46(17)(c) of the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13],” read part of the Gazette.
