ZANU PF has won the Chinhoyi Municipality Ward 2 by-election, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced.
ZANU PF candidate Walter Mutevani garnered 564 votes against CCC candidate Hamilton Jonasi who polled 465 votes.
According to Elections Officer Shepherd Kawocha, there were 07 spoilt ballot papers, while the percentage poll was 39.2%.
The Ward seat fell vacant following the death of Patricia Chibaya (CCC), who had won her second term during 23 and 24 August harmonised polls after beating Mutevani.
In its coverage of the election, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) said:
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Before the setting up of polling stations, voters’ rolls were displayed outside to enable the electorate to check their names, a good practice from the ZEC that serves to lessen the number of redirected and turned-away voters on polling day.
Both CCC and ZANU-PF deployed party agents comprehensively across the four polling stations in the Chinhoyi Municipality Ward 2 by-elections.
This allows the political party agents to track polling processes and make any informed interventions where necessary.
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The Chinhoyi Municipality has dismissed as fake news a report claiming that a vagrant drowned in one of the Council’s waterworks.
This comes after a message claiming Chinhoyi’s water shortage was being caused by a decomposing body inside the Council’s waterworks circulated on social media platforms.
The local authority’s spokesperson, Tichaona Mlauzi, described the message as an April Fools’ Day joke that was in bad taste. He said:
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I think someone wanted to make an April Fools’ joke, but it was in bad taste.
We have not had any deaths at our waterworks plant.
If there had been a death at the plant, it would have been reported to the police.
We are law-abiding citizens and we report such issues to the police for them to take action.
It’s very unfortunate that the so-called joke has brought our municipality to the fore for the wrong reasons.
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Zimbabwe’s urban settlements regularly experience water shortages due to challenges in procuring water treatment chemicals, power cuts to waterworks, as well as growing demand due to urbanisation.
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