Chigumba Speech
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- Date recorded
- Jul 13, 2018
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- Elections
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Brief by the Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to Local and Foreign observers for the 2018 Harmonised Elections at Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) 13 July 2018.
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- Nov 9, 2018
ZIMBABWE 1980 Elections report
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- Date recorded
- Feb 14, 1980
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- Elections
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This report outlines the purpose of elections, characteristics of Parliament, electoral system,transitory provisions, general political considerations and conduct of elections. It also showed the distribution of members of the house of assembly according to their professional category, distribution of seats in the senate, distribution of House of Assembly members according to sex and according to age group.
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- Feb 11, 2019
2005 Parliamentary Elections
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- Date recorded
- Mar 31, 2005
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- Elections
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The 2005 Parliamentary elections represented an important improvement on the 2000 and 2002 elections in that the elections were performed in a peaceful environment without state-controlled violence. Despite this notable improvement from previous elections, the Parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe failed to meet some key internationally recognised election standards.
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- Feb 11, 2019
Zimbabwe June 2000 Elections
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- Date recorded
- Jun 24, 2000
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- Elections
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This is the first in the series of Special Reports issued by the Research Unit of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum. It displaced the original proposal to deal with gender and constitutional issues. This change was necessitated by the wave of lawlessness which resulted in massive human rights abuses during most of 2000.
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- Feb 11, 2019
2008 Elections
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- Date recorded
- Mar 29, 2008
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- Elections
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On March 29, 2008, Zimbabwe held presidential, parliamentary and local elections. Months later, the country’s political future remains uncertain. For the first time since independence, the ruling party has lost its majority in the National Assembly. After a month of rising tensions, the results of the presidential race were belatedly announced on May 2.
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- Feb 11, 2019
Political Violence report 2008
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- Date recorded
- Dec 1, 2008
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
- Politics & Governance
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In this report for 2008,there are certain trends and characteristics which have been attendant on the incidents reported to the Human rights Forum which rebut the denial of ZANU PF that in most instances the violence that was reported was between over zealous youths and villagers.
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- Feb 11, 2019
Zimbabwe 2013 elections
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- Date recorded
- Jul 31, 2013
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- Elections
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This report provides a thorough analysis primarily of the technical aspects of the elections, complementing the observer reports that have been published by other organisations.
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- Feb 11, 2019
Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry 18 DEC 18
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- Date recorded
- Aug 1, 2018
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- Elections
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Zimbabwe held itsnationalelections on the 30th of July 2018. The electoral process was generally peaceful until the 1st of August 2018, when many demonstrators took to the streets of Harare demanding the immediate release of the election results. These events, particularly those that occurred within Harare’s Central Business District (CBD), resulted in the death of six (6) people, injury of thirty-five (35), and massive damage to properties.
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- Feb 11, 2019
EU Election Observers Final Report Zimbabwe 2018
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- Date recorded
- Aug 1, 2018
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- Elections
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This report contains the findings of the EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) on the Harmonised Elections 2018. The electoral commission lacked full independence and appeared to not always act in an impartial manner. The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors and lacked adequate traceability, transparency and verifiability.
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- Feb 11, 2019
Report on the Post elections violations
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- Date recorded
- Aug 1, 2018
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- Elections
- Trauma
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This is the first report by the consortium which covers the period 1 to 9 August 2018. A total of 199 violations were documented from 1 to 9 August 2018.
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- Feb 14, 2019
Political and historical context of elections 2
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2018
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- Elections
- Politics & Governance
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This briefing paper reviews the political and historical context of the Zimbabwean election with a view of determining the contribution of this past to the electoral outcomes. We hypothesize that the 2018 electoral outcome will be a function of its immediate past and the broader national historical context.
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- Feb 18, 2019
Zimbabwe political violence & elections
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- Date recorded
- Apr 30, 2018
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- Elections
- Politics & Governance
- Riots
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This report focuses on how Zimbabwe has an unenviable reputation for being the most politically violent country in Southern Africa, certainly since the civil wars ended in Angola and Mozambique, and the independence of Namibia and South Africa.
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- Feb 18, 2019
2013 ZLHR Pre election report
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2013
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- 2008 & Beyond
- Elections
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The harmonised elections set for 31 July 2013 remain perhaps the most significant yet contested polls in the history of Zimbabwe. Not only has the timing of the actual poll been uncertain, but the polls are also approaching at a time when the curtains are coming down on the embattled Inclusive Government (IG) that was akin to a love-hate relationship amongst the three main political parties represented in Parliament.
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- Feb 19, 2019
Electoral Petition to the Parliament of Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Dec 3, 2018
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- Elections
- Politics & Governance
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The Petitioners beseech the Parliament of Zimbabwe to consider and pass the relevant legislation that give life to tenets of the 2013 Constitution.
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- Feb 20, 2019
National Dialogue must result in comprehensive electoral and political reforms ZESN
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- Date recorded
- Feb 7, 2019
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- Elections
- Politics & Governance
- Summary
ZESN strongly believes that the pathway to the next election should be defined by a comprehensive electoral and political reforms process established and implemented by all key stakeholders.
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- Feb 20, 2019
Ten Point Plan Document
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- Date recorded
- Jun 30, 2018
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- Elections
- Summary
Government needs to immediately align all electoral laws with the Constitution of Zimbabwe.
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- Feb 20, 2019
ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTORAL AMENDMENT ACT OF 28 MAY 2018
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- May 28, 2018
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- Elections
- Politics & Governance
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On 28 May 2018, another Electoral Amendment Act was passed and the 2018 Election date was announced thereafter. Consequently, as a result of the announcement of the Election day as 30 July 2018, any amendments to the Electoral Act that happen after the proclamation do not apply to the 2018 elections, but other future elections.
- Date added
- Feb 20, 2019
ZESN’S COMMENT ON THE ZEC BVR PROVISIONAL STATISTICS
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- Date recorded
- Mar 23, 2018
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- Elections
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Following several requests by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network ZESN and other stakeholders for Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to release data, on the numbers of voters registered disaggregated by province and gender, the ZEC published the Biometric Voter Registration BVR data on its website in March 2018.
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- Feb 20, 2019
Free and fair elections
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- Date recorded
- Mar 28, 2018
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- Elections
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The paper has guidelines on what constitutes free and fair elections.
- Date added
- Feb 20, 2019
ZESN Projections Population by Ward Gender 18 December 2017 Final 11
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2017
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- Elections
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The overarching objective of the report is to provide ZESN and interested stakeholders with ward based comprehensive scientific data on population dynamics for 2018.
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- Feb 20, 2019
ZESN 2018 Population Projections for Zimbabweans Aged 18
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2017
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- Elections
- Summary
As Zimbabwe readies itself for the new polling station based and biometric voter registration for the 2018 harmonised elections, it is imperative that efforts and resources are channelled towards ensuring that all eligible voters are registered so that they are able to vote come 2018.
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- Feb 20, 2019
ZESN analysis of the Electoral Amendment Bill
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- Date recorded
- Sep 18, 2017
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- Elections
- Summary
A closer scrutiny of this Bill shows that it largely mirrors a law passed a week earlier, through the gazetting of Statutory Instrument (SI) 117/2017, on the 15th of September 2017, through the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Act. The Bill is meant to eventually substitute the SI given that laws promulgated via the use of presidential powers do not have shelf life beyond six months.
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- Feb 20, 2019
ZESN Review of the Electoral Voter Registration Regulations
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- Date recorded
- Jul 21, 2017
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- Elections
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The review is juxtaposing the content of the promulgated regulations against the draft regulations, in light of the submissions made to ZEC by ZESN. More specifically the review analyses the extent to which written recommendations made by ZESN have been incorporated into the promulgated regulations.
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- Feb 20, 2019
Policy Brief Enhancing Transparency in Zimbabwe’s Electoral Processes
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- Dec 31, 2017
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- Elections
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This policy brief intends to inform and advise on how to improve transparencyin electoral processes in particular the voter registration, voting and resultsmanagement processes. Transparency is a key principle for credible and democratic elections.
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- Feb 20, 2019
Policy Brief Reclaiming Public Media ahead of 2018 Elections
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2017
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- Elections
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There are dislocations between the progressive Constitution of Zimbabwe (2013) and the laws that were crafted underthe Lancaster House Constitution, whichthe government of Zimbabwe is reluctant to repeal and replace with democratic legislation. This has perpetuated the restrictive environment within which the Zimbabwean media operates.
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- Feb 20, 2019
Policy Brief A Call for Alignment of Laws with the Constitution
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- Dec 31, 2017
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- Elections
- Politics & Governance
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This paper contains a framework to guide lobby and advocacy efforts with parliamentarians, policy makers and other critical stakeholders such as ZEC.
- Date added
- Feb 20, 2019
Enhancing Understanding of BVR In Zimbabwe
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- Jan 31, 2018
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- Elections
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The paper contains the definition of BVR, What BVR is not, Advantages and Risk of BVR as well as ZESN's position on BVR.
- Date added
- Feb 20, 2019
Lessons from Kenya Article 1
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- Jan 31, 2017
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- Elections
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Recently, ZESN observed the Mass Voter Registration process in Kenya, where Kenyans were registering using the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) system which Zimbabwe is about to adopt for the 2018 Elections. The learning missions to Kenya was an eye opener especially given that Kenya was doing the BVR exercise for the second time before a major election having done BVR prior to their 2013 elections.
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- Feb 20, 2019
2018 or 2023 Summary of opinions on delimitation in Zimbabwe
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- Date recorded
- Dec 31, 2017
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- Elections
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Delimitation is the process of redistricting of constituencies for the purposes of elections. It divides the country into constituencies and wards for the purposes of elections of persons to constituency seats in the National Assembly and of councillors to local authorities. In Zimbabwe, the process is carried out in terms of sections 160 and 161 of the latest Constitution (2013).
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- Feb 20, 2019
DELIMITATION OF BOUNDARIES IN ZIMBABWE IN 2022
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- Dec 31, 2017
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- Elections
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This report highlights that The process of delimitation of electoral boundaries remains critical to any electoral outcome in Zimbabwe. In the past, this process has not been conducted in a timely and transparent manner.
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- Feb 20, 2019