The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Press Freedom day. This year’s celebrations run under the theme “Media Freedom has the Power to Transform Societies”. ZESN notes that this day comes against the background of continued calls for media freedom, plurality and diversity in Zimbabwe………. : more

Rindai, I understand you have just returned from New York for an important engagement there, would you like to update our readers what this was all about?, …….. : more

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) and SADC Election Support Network join other international non partisan election observation organisations in welcoming the Declaration of Global Principles for Nonpartisan Election Observation and Monitoring launched at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on the 3rd of April 2012…….. : more

Harare – July 20 2011- The Zimbabwe Election Support Network has noted the recently gazetted amendments to the Electoral laws. These reforms come against a backdrop of previously contested electoral processes in Zimbabwe with particular reference to the 2008 run-off election whose contestation led to the formation of the current political set up…. …. : more

11 July, 2011-Harare – This statement is a response to the timelines set and agreed by the three political parties in GNU for Zimbabwe’s electoral roadmap as reported in the Herald of 7 July, 2011. First and foremost, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) notes with concern the continued disregard of the voice….. …. : more

HARARE – 16 June 2011- As talk of elections continues to confound many Zimbabweans, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) calls upon political parties in the Global Political Agreement to seriously address fundamental reforms that will give legitimacy and credibility to any future elections in the country……… …. : more

Zimbabwe Election Support Network welcomes the statement expressed by the Registrar-General on the 14th of December 2010 on ZBC TV. The Registrar-General noted that the voters roll is in shambles, an aspect that ZESN has over the years emphasized. ZESN notes that a clean voters’ roll will go a long way in increasing the credibility of electoral processes in Zimbabwe…. : more

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network the leading independent network on elections in Zimbabwe convened a conference in Vumba – Leopard Rock Hotel which brought together various organisations and partners working on elections to deliberate on electoral issues in light of the possible referendum on the new constitution and elections in 2011……………………. : more

Harare – 26 September 2010 – The Zimbabwe Election Support Network deployed a 15 member delegation to observethe tripartite election which were held on 20 September, 2011. The team observed the pre-election, election and post election phases of the Zambian Presidential, parliamentary and localgovernment (tripartite) elections…….. : more

This statement is a response to an article that appeared on the 13th of August 2010 in the Zimbabwe Independent on the opposition to electoral reforms by the Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri. Earlier this year political parties in the GNU agreed to reform electoral laws in Zimbabwe and this included among others a change in the role of the police in electoral processes. The three political parties in the inclusive government agreed to restrict the role of……….. : more