Mt Pleasant Heights residents cry foul over constituency shift

RESIDENTS of Mt Pleasant Heights in Harare have taken the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to court challenging the electoral management body’s decision to unilaterally transfer them to Mazowe South constituency without their consent.

The residents, led by former councillor, Warship Dumba together with Celine Eunice Nyakutsikwa, filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking reversal of the electoral body’s decision.

In their founding affidavits, Dumba and Nyakutsikwa said at all material times and in particular in the past two general elections in 2008 and 2013, they had cast their votes under Mt Pleasant constituency, but were surprised when Zec officials advised them that they were now under Mazowe South constituency.

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