Although it is difficult to come up with an accurate figure, the International Organisation for Migration office estimates that four million Zimbabweans are living abroad. While their rights to vote are enshrined in the Zimbabwean constitution, most are...
The Diaspora Vote Initiative is a nonpartisan group of Zimbabweans living in the diaspora who want to vote during Zimbabwe’s elections. People from other SADC countries such as Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa allow their citizens living abroad to vote in national elections, and other countries are working towards putting in place mechanisms to allow their citizens living in the diaspora to vote.
the Electoral Law may prescribe additional residential requirements to ensure that voters are registered on the most appropriate voters roll, but any such requirements must be consistent with this Constitution, in particular with section 67.” All the same, if a constitutional amendment was necessary, parliament should have moved to make the amendment. But even if the minister’s interpretation of the constitution is right, the constitution is not cast in concrete and can be amended. It has been amended by parliament before, to remove the running mate clause, and to include proportional representation youth parliamentary seats..
It appears, then, that some elements in parliament are determined to suppress our right to vote, and we have to fight hard and expose this corruption in parliament, to ensure that our vote is granted.On 26 September 2022, we petitioned President Mnangagwa in accordance with Section 59 of the constitution of Zimbabwe, which grants citizens of Zimbabwe the freedom to demonstrate and to petition authorities peacefully.
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