Senior Clerical Assistant (Administration) – Grade 5

Records Assistant

Assistant Registrar – Faculties (Gweru)

Security Guards (Gweru, Harare, Kwekwe & Zvishavane campuses)

Technical Sales Person/ Aluminium (Harare)

Regional Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Officer (Bulawayo)

Boiler Maker (Harare)

Marketing & Sales Officer (Harare)

Compliance Officer (Harare)

Safety, Health and Environment Officer (Harare)

Business Unit Manager x2 (Harare)

Vehicle Sales Consultant - JAC (Harare)

Vehicle Sales Consultant – DONG FENG (Harare)

Vehicle Sales Consultant – BAIC (Harare)

Spray Painter (Harare)

Motor Vehicle Panel Beater (Harare)

Team Leaders x7

Billing Supervisor (Harare)

Sales Representative (Harare)

Auto Electrician: Artisan (Chipinge)

Sales Representatives (Harare)

Boilermaker- Class 1 (Mutorashanga)

Director Human Resource (Mutare)

Content Developers And Content Reviewers Of Social Work Modules

Accounts Clerk (Marondera)

Lecturers: Faculty of Social and Gender Transformative Sciences x6

Secretary: Department of Social Work (Harare)

Senior Airport Attendant (Harare)

Human Resource Officer (Harare)

Secretary (Harare)

Business Analyst (Mutare)

Statistician (Harare)

Assistant Batch Plant Operator (Harare)

Solar Electrical Technician (Harare)

Nurse Training January 2025 Intake

Sales Representative x2 (Bulawayo)

TFCA Programme Officer (Grade D1)

Senior Internal Auditor (Harare)

Human Capital Consultant (Harare)

Property Portfolio Manager (Bulawayo)

Legal & Compliance Manager (Harare)

Processes Analyst (Harare)

Finance Manager Corporate (Harare)

Tyre Fitter (Chipinge)

Auto Electrician (Chipinge)

Class One Electrician (Harare)

Underwriting Administrator (Bulawayo)

Undertaker (Harare & Bulawayo)

Mortician (Harare & Bulawayo)

Funeral Consultant (Harare & Bulawayo)

Accounts Officer (Bulawayo)

Transport Clerk (Harare)

Senior Research Officer in Molecular Biology (Harare)

Genomics Technician (Harare)

Semi-Skilled DPF/Tractor Mechanic (Chipinge)

Department of Clothing and Textile Lectureship Position

Department of Environmental Science and Technology Lectureship Positions x4

Department of Biotechnology – Lectureship Positions x2

Department of Food Science and Technology Lectureship Position

Department of Material Science and Engineering Technology Lectureship Positions x2

Department of Information Technology Lectureship Position

Department of Biology Lectureship Position

Department of Mathematics and Statistics Lecturer Position

Department of Chemistry Lectureship Position

Management Accountant (Harare)

Canteen Cook (Harare)

Canteen Supervisor (Grade 5)

Driver (Mutare)

Strategic Information and Evaluation (SIE) Clerks

Field Officers: SUPPORT-TB

Provincial TB Focal Person (Mutare, Gweru)

Communication and Stakeholder Engagement Manager (Harare)

Workshop Foreman (Harare)

Business Unit Manager (Bulawayo)

Parts Manager (Harare)

Branch Managers (Harare)

Draughtsperson (Norton)

Graduate Trainee – Human Resources (Harare)

Procurement Manager (Harare)

Finance Administrator (Harare)

Artisan Electricians (Chipinge)

Electrician (Harare)

Assistant Motor Bike Mechanic (Harare)

Motor Bike Mechanic (Harare)

Transport Mechanic (Harare)

Registered General Nurse: Fixed Term (Bulawayo)

Front Desk Assistant -Glenview Wellness Clinic (Harare)

2025 Apprenticeship Intake: CFAO

2025 Apprenticeship Training Intake

Exhibitions Officer (Harare)

General Manager (Harare)

Optical Dispensing Assistant

Welder

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor: Accountancy x5

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor: Mathematics x2

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor: Human Capital Management x2

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor: Marketing

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has filed two notices of appeal at the Electoral Court appealing against the decision of the Nomination Court, which rejected <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Linda_Masarira/">Linda Masarira</a> and Elisabeth Valerio’s nomination as candidates for election to the office of President in general elections scheduled for 23 August.
Masarira and Valerio failed to pay the required US$20,000 fee by the end of Wednesday to register their candidacy for the election. Even after the <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">Zimbabwe Electoral Commission</a> (ZEC) gave <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">disqualified candidates</a> two hours to make the payment on Thursday, they still couldn’t make the payment. 
Linda Masarira leads the opposition <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Labour,_Economists_and_African_Democrats/">Labour, Economists and African Democrats (LEAD)</a> while Elisabeth Valerio is president of the United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA).
<a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Elisabeth_Valerio">Elisabeth Valerio</a> recently condemned the <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">Zimbabwean Parliament</a>‘s decision to uphold high <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">nomination fees</a> for candidates set by the <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">Zimbabwe Electoral Commission</a> (ZEC). Valerio expressed concern that the fees would prevent some aspiring candidates from participating in the upcoming elections as they cannot afford them. She argued that <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">high nomination fees</a> limit <a class="MarkdownLink_linkifiedLink__KxC9G">political participation</a> to only those with financial resources and undermine the political rights of citizens.
According to Statutory Instrument (SI) 144 of 2022, parliamentary candidates must pay US$1,000, while presidential candidates must pay US$20,000 to run for their respective offices. 
<h3><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">More Pindula News</a></h3>

Pindula News

Masarira, Valerio Appeal Presidential Candidacy Disqualification

Robert Chapman, a United States-based politician and leader of the Democratic Union of Zimbabwe, has announced his withdrawal from the 2023 Presidential election. Chapman expressed gratitude to those who supported his campaign for an alternative option to Zimbabwe’s political landscape. He cited financial constraints, the limited time before voting day, and concerns about possible fractionalisation and infiltration as reasons for his withdrawal. He said:
<blockquote>
I would like to personally thank all those who worked hard and remained true to our cause for an alternative option to the political landscape of Zimbabwe.
As I and we all reflect on this moment, the tough lessons allow the opportunity to build back better and wiser. I look forward to campaigning on the ground with all our successfully nominated candidates and remain committed to improving the dialogue about building a better Zimbabwe.
</blockquote>
The Zimbabwe elections, which will elect a President, House of Assembly Members, and Councilors, are scheduled for August 23, 2023. A number of aspiring candidates were unable to register for the upcoming elections due to the high fees charged by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). The fees for presidential candidates are US$20,000, while those contesting for National Assembly seats are charged US$1,000. 
<h3><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">More Pindula News</a></h3>

Chapman Withdraws From 2023 Zimbabwe Presidential Race

ZANU PF will meet Nomination costs for all its Candidates in the upcoming harmonised elections set for 23 August 2023.
This is contained in circular 1 of 2023 addressed to ZANU PF provincial chairpersons dated 19 June 2023, by the party’s secretary for finance Patrick Chinamasa.
The circular was copied to Obert Mpofu and Mike Bimha, ZANU PF secretary of administration and secretary for the commissariat, respectively,
National Assembly candidates are required to pay US$1 000 each, senatorial candidates, women’s quota candidates, youth quota candidates and provincial council candidates will each pay US$200.
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) recently ruled that Parliament should review <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/2023/05/18/ziyambi-says-election-nomination-fees-wont-be-reduced/">Statutory Instrument (SI) 144 of 2022 which increased the nomination fees for candidates</a> seeking to run for public office in the August 23 elections.
The ruling came after Devine Mhambi Hove, leader of the Nationalists Alliance Party (NAP), filed an application arguing that Parliament had failed to fulfil its constitutional obligation to consider whether the instrument was in contravention of the Constitution.
However, Parliament’s Legal Committee (PLC), which is made up of five members, three of whom are ZANU PF members, approved the nomination fees.
High Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi on Monday, 19 June ruled that an application challenging the election candidate nomination fees submitted by opposition politicians and pro-democracy campaigners is not urgent.
He said the matter should be set down for hearing on a normal and ordinary court roll.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Government recently awarded US$400 000 “housing loans” to all judges in the country.
More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

ZANU PF To Pay Nomination Fees For All Its Candidates'

The High Court on Monday ruled that an application challenging the exorbitant election candidate nomination fees submitted by opposition politicians and pro-democracy campaigners is not urgent.
This is despite the fact that the nomination court, which is responsible for receiving and vetting nomination papers from candidates who wish to contest in the 2023 parliamentary, presidential, and local government elections, sits tomorrow, 21 June 2023.
The court challenge was filed by former presidential candidate Egypt Dzinemunhenzva, Harare North MP Allan Markham, Vongai Zimudzi and Tapiwanashe Chiriga who filed their initial application in September 2022.
They are being represented by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR).
The opposition politicians and pro-democracy campaigners are challenging the nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for candidates for the 2023 general elections.
Presidential candidates are required to pay US$20 000, Parliamentary candidates, US$1 000, while candidates for Local Government seats are required to pay US$200.
In their application, which was filed last year, Dzinemunhenzva, Markham, Zimudzi and Chiriga, who are represented by Obey Shava of ZLHR argued that the nomination fees are too high and should be withdrawn.
In an update posted on Twitter on Tuesday, 20 June 2023, ZLHR said High Court judge Judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi on Monday ruled that the application is not urgent. <a href="https://twitter.com/ZLHRLawyers/status/1671080710986424320">Reads the post</a>:
<blockquote>
High Court Judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi on Monday ruled that the application seeking an urgent determination of a challenge of exorbitant nomination fees for the 2023 general elections is not urgent and that the matter should be set down for hearing on a normal and ordinary court roll.
</blockquote>
In the application, Shava argued that Statutory Instrument 144 of 2022, which amended the nomination fees for the 2023 general elections, is “unconstitutional, unreasonable and have the effect of blocking aspiring candidates from participating in elections.”
Meanwhile, Parliament’s Legal Committee (PLC) recently approved the candidate nomination fees set by ZEC after it was tasked by the Constitutional Court to review SI 144 of 2022.
The Constitutional Court application challenging the nomination fees had been filed in April this year by the Nationalists Alliance Party (NAP).
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Nomination Fees Court Challenge Not Urgent - Justice Mutevedzi

United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) president <a href="https://pindula.co.zw/Elisabeth_Valerio">Elisabeth Valerio</a> has condemned the ZANU PF-dominated Parliament’s recent decision to uphold exorbitant candidate nomination fees pegged by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).
Valerio said that the nomination fees will make it hard for some aspiring candidates to contest in the 23 August elections as they cannot afford the fees. She was quoted by <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/women-presidential-aspirants-cry-foul-over-us2ok-candidate-fees/">ZimLive</a> as saying:
<blockquote>
Our party is worried about the latest development because the opportunity for candidates to contest in this election is being compromised by the exorbitant fees.
Contesting in elections should not be the preserve of the elite and this latest development by parliament is segregatory.
It strips away all possibility for participation by potential election contestants who may not have the required resources…
The stance taken by the ZANU PF-dominated Parliament simply proves the usual complaint that ZEC is not independent but an agent or mouthpiece of ZANU PF.
It shows clearly that the exorbitant fees originated from ZANU PF headquarters and were merely passed on to ZEC to announce.
The Constitution of Zimbabwe is clear that the state should ensure that its citizens’ political rights are protected and these include running for political office.
When running for political office becomes a preserve of the rich, we are no longer guaranteeing the political rights of citizens.
</blockquote>
According to Statutory Instrument (SI) 144 of 2022, candidates must pay US$1 000 to run for parliamentary seats and US$20 000 to run for president.
The leader of the Nationalists Alliance Party (NAP), Divine Mhambi-Hove successfully challenged the nomination fees through the courts.
The Constitutional Court ordered Parliament to scrutinise them for their legality or lack of.
However, Parliament’s Legal Committee (PLC), which is made up of five members, three of whom are ZANU PF members, approved the nomination fees.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

UZA President Elisabeth Valerio Cries Foul Over US$20 000 Candidate Fees

The leader of the Nationalists Alliance Party (NAP), Divine Mhambi-Hove, has called on other political parties to boycott the upcoming general elections in protest against the hefty nomination fees for election candidates.
Mhambi-Hove, who launched a Constitutional Court challenge against the fees, said a lot of poor people won’t be able to contest in the elections.
This comes after Parliament’s Legal Committee (PLC) approved the nomination fees after a Constitutional Court ruling ordering Parliament to review Statutory Instrument (SI) 144 of 2022 which set the nomination fees in August 2022.
The PLC is made up of five members, three of whom are ZANU PF members.
It issued a Non-Adverse Report authorising the nomination costs, which means candidates must pay US$1 000 to run for MP, Senate, or provincial council, and US$20 000 to run for president.
Speaking in an interview with journalists in Bulawayo on Friday, Mhambi-Hove said filing an urgent court application at the Constitutional Court to determine the constitutionality of the nomination fees would be challenging given the time limit. He said:
<blockquote>
The sensible thing is to not pay for those fees. Let’s speak with one voice that the nomination fees are very illegal. They violate the constitution, the rights of aspiring politicians and poor people.
Several companies will not support political parties because of the fear of being associated with politics.
I don’t think there’s anyone who is willing to part with US$20 000 so they can stand that’s totally unacceptable!
</blockquote>
The Nominations Courts set to sit on Wednesday across the country to consider names of aspiring MPs and councillors.
In Harare, the nomination court will consider the names of presidential candidates.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Zim Opposition Leader Calls For Election Boycott Over Exorbitant Nomination Fees

A new legal dispute is brewing after parliament approved new nomination fees for election candidates on Wednesday. The fees are set at US$20,000 for individuals intending to run for president, up from US$1,000, and US$1,000 for parliament, up from US$50.
The Constitutional Court had ordered a review of Statutory Instrument 144 of 2022, which increased the nomination fees, ruling that the National Assembly had neglected to examine the statutory instrument to ensure its compliance with the Constitution. However, parliament’s five-member legal committee issued a report endorsing the fees, dashing the hopes of opposition parties who had called for the fees to be changed.
Speaking to journalists, ZANU PF chief whip <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Pupurai_Togarepi/">Pupurai Togarepi</a> said debating the PLC report would be a waste of time since election dates were already proclaimed. He said:
<blockquote>
Whether we were going to debate about these fees, whether we were going to think we can alter them, they were not going to apply in this election. They would apply in 2028 or during primary elections. So, it was just an academic debate, wasting everybody’s time.
</blockquote>
The opposition warned that the fees would deplete their budgets and also block aspiring candidates to reconsider contesting. Devine Mhambi Hove, leader of the opposition National Alliance of Patriotic and Democratic Republicans (NPDR), filed a lawsuit against parliament, claiming that Statutory Instrument 144, which was gazetted last year, violated section 67 of the constitution. This section outlines the political rights of Zimbabweans, including the right to run for public office and hold public office if elected. Hove argued that parliament did not consider whether the statutory instrument infringed on citizens’ rights. The Constitutional Court reviewed the case and returned the statutory instrument to parliament.
Hove’s lawyer, Prof <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Lovemore_Madhuku/">Lovemore Madhuku</a>, is set to file a new court application to declare the fees unconstitutional. Any legal challenge must be brought urgently as the nomination court is scheduled to sit on June 21 to register candidates for the August election.
<h3><a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">More Pindula News</a></h3>

Parliament Approved New Nomination Fees For Election Candidates Sparking Legal Dispute

CCC and MDC welcomed a ruling by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on Friday against the candidate nomination fees for the 2023 harmonised elections set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in August 2022.
The ConCourt made the ruling following an application by Devine Mhambi Hove, leader of the opposition National Alliance of Patriotic and Democratic Republicans (NPDR).
Mhambi argued that the fees were too high and contravened provisions of the national Constitution.
The ConCourt gave Parliament seven days to review the fees.
CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere told <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/zecs-hefty-nomination-fees-unite-political-rivals/">ZimLive</a> that the party’s MPs were ready to propose “reasonable fees” taking into cognisance the prevailing economic situation. She said:
<blockquote>
The latest Constitutional Court ruling prohibiting the exorbitant Nomination Court fees as set out in SI 144/2022 vindicates the CCC position that ZEC must not unduly restrict citizen participation in electoral processes by making the fees unaffordable in this harsh economic climate.
CCC MPs are ready to propose reasonable fees that will cover administration costs by ZEC and are in line with our economic realities.
The CCC believes genuine members of parliament from across the political divide will unite to put forward a reasonable and affordable fee in light of the economic challenges faced by citizens throughout the country who intend to be candidates in this coming general election.
</blockquote>
Also speaking to ZimLive, MDC spokesperson Witness Dube said the party will work with other parties across the political divide to decrease the nomination fees. He said:
<blockquote>
The court’s ruling has given the Zimbabwean people a lifeline, a glimmer of hope in terms of affirming our democracy where we don’t have fees as restrictive measures when it comes to political representation of the masses.
Since this is going to be determined by parliament, we will be working with everyone in parliament.
When I say everyone, I mean MDC will be open to working with CCC, and will be open to working with ZANU PF MPs in order to arrive at very reasonable nomination fees.
No matter how much the country needs in terms of funds to run the election, we should fund our elections through other means not directly relying on the participants because that has an adverse effect on limiting the space, the democratic space shrinking it and actually impacting on the quality of leadership that therefore emerges.
</blockquote>
Nomination fees for presidential candidates in the 2018 general election were US$1 000 and US$50 for parliamentary candidates.
However, in August 2022, ZEC increased the fees to US$20 000 for presidential candidates, US$1 000 for aspiring Members of Parliament and US$100 for senatorial and council seats for aspiring candidates ahead of the 2023 elections.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

CCC, MDC Welcome Constitutional Court Ruling On ZEC Candidate Nomination Fees

Veteran opposition politician Egypt Dzinemunhenzva, Harare North MP, Rusty Markham (MDC Alliance), and pro-democracy activist Tapiwanashe Chiriga are challenging the nomination fees recently gazetted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).
The trio has instructed their lawyer, Obey Shava, of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) to demand that ZEC and the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs should within 72 hours withdraw the exorbitant nomination fees gazetted last week.
According to ZLHR, Shava has told ZEC and Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi that the regulations amending the nomination fees for 2023 elections are unconstitutional, unreasonable and have the effect of blocking aspiring candidates from participating in elections.
On Friday last week, ZEC gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 144 of 2022 (1) on candidate nomination fees which will see an aspiring presidential candidate paying US$20 000.
According to the new regulations, an aspiring member of parliament will pay a candidate fee of US$1 000 while local authority and Senate aspiring candidates will now pay a sum of US$200. ZEC said:
<blockquote>
It is hereby notified that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, in terms of section 192 of the Electoral Act (Chapter 2:13) has, with the approval of the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs made the following regulations: These regulations may be cited as the electoral (nomination of candidates) (Amendment) Regulations, 2022 (1).
</blockquote>

Egypt Dzinemunhenzva Challenges New ZEC Nomination Fees

New Patriotic Front (NPF) leader Tendai Peter Munyanduri says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) should use the level of education as a criterion to screen Presidential candidates and not money.
Munyanduri made the suggestion after ZEC hiked nomination fees for presidential hopefuls from US$1 000 to US$20 000.
Most opposition parties in the country have voiced their opposition to the new fees saying they are not able to raise the required US$20 000 for nomination fees.
In Zimbabwe, it is illegal for political parties to get outside funding under the Political Parties Financing Act.
The same law stipulates that political parties that get at least 5% of Parliamentary seats get funding from the treasury.
Currently, only ZANU PF and MDC Alliance led by Douglas Mwonzora have been sharing the funds.
In an interview with OpenParly, Munyanduri said the leaders of ZANU PF, MDC-T and CCC connived in a bid to block the leaders of other parties from fielding presidential candidates. He said:
<blockquote>
They should use education as a screening tool for Presidential candidates and not money.
For example, ZEC may say for one to qualify as a Presidential candidate you must have a minimum of a master’s degree.
That is a more objective criterion than using exorbitant nomination fees.
With US$20 000 in Presidential nomination fees, it is only the three unashamed lawyers who are stealing and looting public funds in the name of the Political Parties Finance Act who will be on that ballot paper facilitated by stolen and looted public funds.
The announced nomination fees are a cowardly act by the infamous lawyers Mnangagwa, Chamisa, and Mwonzora.
They are afraid of competing with us because they know we will beat them in a free and fair election.
These lawyers are not ashamed to have a ballot paper with only lawyers in a country of more than 20 professions.
</blockquote>
Munyanduri once promised to give citizens eggs and bacon every day if he wins the 2018 general election.
More: <a href="https://openparly.com/index.php/2022/08/23/nomination-fees-use-education-not-money-to-screen-candidates-says-munyanduri/">OpenParly</a>

Munyanduri Says ZEC Should Use Education To Screen Presidential Candidates

The Election Resource Centre (ERC) has expressed its concern about the increase in fees for external oversight by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).
Last week ZEC revised Presidential Nomination Fees from US$1 000 to US$20 000, and Parliamentary Nomination Fees from US$50 to US$1 000. ERC said in a statement:
<blockquote>
ERC notes with grave concern the amendments to fees for the nominations of candidates, accreditation of observers and to access the voters roll by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).
The price increases do not seem to consider the importance of ensuring access to electoral processes by all citizens of Zimbabwe.
While the Electoral Body is within the confines of the law in increasing presidential and parliamentary nomination fees, the price increase has a bearing on electoral participation.
</blockquote>
ERC also challenged ZEC to address key and pressing electoral reforms that remain outstanding instead of introducing measures that hinder participation. Said ERC:
<blockquote>
The newly introduced charges do not seem to promote openness, transparency and accountability in the electoral process.
As the country prepares for the 2023 Harmonised elections, the Electoral Commission must revisit the reform agenda and accordingly advise Parliament on priorities to facilitate better elections in Zimbabwe.
</blockquote>
ERC identified several reforms that ZEC should prioritise. These are:
<ul>
<li>Strengthening electoral administration processes including enhancing voter registration in under-registered districts; undertaking comprehensive voter education and more effective information by the Commission with election stakeholders</li>
<li>Reform the ZEC by looking at the commission’s personnel, practices and administration.</li>
<li>Alignment of electoral laws to the Constitution.</li>
<li>Reform the conduct of the state media in electoral processes.</li>
<li>Reform the conduct of the traditional leaders in political processes.</li>
</ul>

New ZEC Fees Hinder Citizens' Participation In Electoral Processes - ERC

The leader of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), Lovemore Madhuku, says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has no power to charge candidate nomination fees.
Arguably, the majority of opposition political parties have criticised ZEC for setting candidate nomination fees at US$20 000, US$1 000 and US$200 for aspiring presidential, Members of Parliament, and councillors respectively.
Speaking during a press briefing held in Harare on Monday, Madhuku said ZEC cannot make fundamental decisions regarding who can be candidates.
He added that individuals have political rights guaranteed in Zimbabwe’s Constitution (Section 67) to campaign for office and not to be shut out of electoral processes. Said Madhuku:
<blockquote>
Who is ZEC to be coming up with these decisions? These decisions ought to be made in the constitution as to who qualifies.
Our constitution does not say amounts that have to be paid as it just talks about the requirements one must meet to contest.
Even when you go through the Electoral Act it provides for some nominal fees that ought to be paid but what ZEC has done is substantive.
It’s a power ZEC is exercising as if it were a legislative body yet it doesn’t have the power to do that.
If we allow ZEC to have that power, then there will be no need for us to have a parliament.
Surely the regulations that ZEC has brought are the kind of regulations that ought to be debated by the public and there was no such public debate.
No Zimbabwean was ever asked to express a view. We didn’t even know this was in the pipeline.
</blockquote>
Madhuku claimed that ZEC was taking Zimbabwe back to the dark years of the colonial era when a 1961 constitution disenfranchised black people because they did not have properties to qualify as voters. He said:
<blockquote>
The colonial constitution would pretend Blacks were allowed to vote and were allowed to be MPs but one had to show a property qualification and own something.
It was known Blacks would not own that property. If you have US$20 000, this is a property qualification where you show you have some money.
We have already fought for these rights. ZEC must simply run elections not for them to go this far.
Our blame goes straight and exclusively to ZEC. We believe in this case; it misunderstood its powers and that’s a sign of incompetence.
… Our position as the NCA is this is ridiculous, totally unacceptable, unconstitutional and undemocratic.
</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://cite.org.zw/zec-has-no-legal-mandate-to-impose-nomination-fees-madhuku/">CITE</a>

"Ridiculous, Unacceptable, Unconstitutional And Undemocratic", Madhuku Condemns ZEC Nomination Fees

MDC-T president, Douglas Mwonzora, has defended the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for setting high candidates fees for the 2023 harmonised elections.
In an interview with NewZimbabwe.com in Kwekwe at the weekend, Mwonzora said the new fee structure will help in removing pretenders from the ballot paper. He said:
<blockquote>
Our ballot paper must be short considering that in 2018 we had 23 presidential candidates, and that’s a challenge. In Kenya, they dealt with this issue by creating coalitions.
In Zimbabwe, some people think that being a candidate is a way to fundraise. Therefore, raising aspirants’ fees is a way of trimming (the number of) candidates.
If you have support enough that you can be a president, party members will be able to fundraise and even raise donations and those monies for parliamentary candidates must be enough.
If not it means you are wasting people’s time. This is, indeed, a good development.
Others have said this will shut out poor candidates, but the money is not coming from individual pockets, its coming from the party.
If you do not have 20 000 supporters and you want to be President for which country?
</blockquote>
On Friday, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) gazetted SI 144 of 2022 (1) on candidate nomination fees which will see an aspiring presidential candidate paying US$20 000.
An aspiring member of parliament will pay a candidate fee of US$1 000 while local authority and Senate aspiring candidates will now pay a sum of US$200.
ZEC also pegged at US$10 for an electronic copy of the voters’ roll with data on one polling station voters, US$15 for the ward level voters’ roll, US$50 for the constituency voters’ roll, US$150 for the provincial voters’ roll and US$200 for the national voters’ roll.
The fees are payable in cash or at the prevailing official rate equivalent.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/mwonzora-fights-in-zecs-corner-says-steep-election-fees-justified-to-flush-out-pretenders/">NewZimbabwe.com</a>

Mwonzora Says ZEC's Steep Election Fees Are Justified

Self-exiled former Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi has said Statutory Instrument (SI) 144 of 2022 (1) has disenfranchised the poor.
On Friday, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) gazetted SI 144 of 2022 (1) on candidate nomination fees which will see an aspiring presidential candidate paying US$20 000.
An aspiring member of parliament will pay a candidate fee of US$1 000 while local authority and Senate aspiring candidates will now pay a sum of US$200.
The fees are payable in cash or at the prevailing official rate equivalent. Part of the regulations read:
<blockquote>
It is hereby notified that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, in terms of section 192 of the Electoral Act (Chapter 2:13) has, with the approval of the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs made the following regulations: These regulations may be cited as the electoral (nomination of candidates) (Amendment) Regulations, 2022 (1).
</blockquote>
Posting on Twitter, Mzembi <a href="https://twitter.com/waltermzembi/status/1561251231317778433?s=20&amp;t=2dtlI5pGx9HlsIYhSKCVQQ">said</a> ZEC is using money as a prequalification for citizens to vote or for aspiring candidates to be nominated as was the case during the Rhodesia era. Said Mzembi:
<blockquote>
SI 144 of 2022 express boomerang to Rhodesia. The poor have been disenfranchised!
Ama 2000s going by monikers ED Believed this and that should read 1961 and 1970 electoral laws outlined here to understand WHY Money and Means should not be a prequalification for voting or being voted.
This is where we came from, don’t take us back @ZECzim.
</blockquote>
Under the 1970 Rhodesian Constitution, European, Asian and mixed citizens had to be earning an annual income of 1,800 dollars or more for the past two years or immovable property worth 3,600 dollars or more, among other things to be eligible to vote.
Black Rhodesians were supposed to earn an annual income of 600 dollars or more for the two past years or immovable property worth 1,200 dollars or more, to be eligible to register as voters.
Meanwhile, ZEC also pegged at US$10 for an electronic copy of the voters’ roll with data on one polling station voters, US$15 for the ward level voters’ roll, US$50 for the constituency voters’ roll, US$150 for the provincial voters’ roll and US$200 for the national voters’ roll.

"ZEC Taking Zimbabwe Back To Rhodesia"

Linda Masarira Latest News

Latest Jobs