Incase you missed the news in Zimbabwe: Weekly News Update weekending 3 October 2017
Zec receives 2 600 BVR kits, readies for blitz The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has received the remaining 2 600 biometric voter registration (BVR) kits as it prepares to launch a blitz to register voters ahead of next year’s harmonised elections. Zec voter education campaign begins The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will from tomorrow embark on a voter education campaign, five days before a registration blitz ahead of next year’s elections. Concern had been raised on Zec’s preparedness to conduct adequate voter education, considering the initial registration process experienced a lot of hitches, as potential voters were unaware of the documents to take to registration centres. Roadblock Dodge Gone Wrong: Five die on the spot Five people died yesterday and several others injured when a pirating Toyota granvia was crushed while attempting to turn in front of an oncoming bus near Zvishavane. NPP makes U-turn on MDC Alliance talks THE Joice Mujuru-led National People’s Party (NPP) yesterday made a political somersault, saying it was still open for coalition talks with the MDC Alliance led by Morgan Tsvangirai, trashing earlier claims by the party’s secretary-general Gift Nyandoro, who recently dismissed the pact as the “devil from hell”. Mphoko differs with Mnangagwa on poisoning VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko has dismissed remarks by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Gutu on Saturday that he was poisoned in Gwanda in August at a Youth Interface Rally. Mighty Warriors draw Namibia in AWC qualifier MIGHTY Warriors have been handed Namibia in the 2018 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (AWC) first round qualifiers, which begin next year, with the Sithethelelwe Sibanda-coached side looking to make a quick return to the continental football extravaganza.