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Zimbabwe Electoral Commission; through the eyeball of a youth

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission  (ZEC) has been nothing but a pre-21 century entity marred with patriarchal attitude and behavior that find youths as nothing but second class citizens. I have no sweet words for this institution as it has showed no remorse to the youths.   The behavior and precedence by ZEC has shown that it is careless for the participation of youths in its entire process. It is imperative that the youths constitute 47% of the voting population (RAU 2103) a significant population to participate in all electoral process. Gawkily they are not even ashamed that a paltry 8.87% was on the 2013 voters roll and seems doing well in keeping youths at bay.  ZEC has been established through the Constitution of Zimbabwe, amendment No.20 of 2013. Established as a commission supporting democracy, democracy is the will of the people by the people for the people. The youths called for the removal of proof of residence for the youths to freely take part in the Democrati

Zimbabwe: the next 8 months with Mnanganwa as president

As I celebrate the new transition from Mugabe as the president of Zimbabwe, I am yet to find common sense to put the current president and cabinet on a 100 day watch as we do to an elected executive. I am definitely jovial about the developments in our political arena as it will yield its impact for our future relating to succession and general changing of persons we have to identify as president. However, it’s not an interesting debate for now but my scrutiny to the imminent discourse we are about to face. We have a new leadership that have 8 months before the next plebiscite scheduled in July 2018. This has been ascertained by the newly inaugurated president ED Mnangangwa. As we celebrated the new political dispensation, we forgot that this will come with a price on us as citizens. The price inform of tax. As the president promulgates his new cabinet, by the culture of ZANU PF, new expensive and top of range cars will be bought for the Ministers as well as their deputies.