FOREWORD 

1 SUBMISSION OF ANNUAL REPORT 

FOREWORD
1. SUBMISSION OF ANNUAL REPORT

INTRODUCTION

11 August 2023, Gaborone, Botswana: In line with the five-year electoral cycle of the Republic of Zimbabwe on 22 June 2023, the Government  invited the Secretariat of Southern African Development Community (SADC) to observe the country’s General Elections scheduled for 23 August 2023. This is in line with Article 3 of the revised SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections (2021), which provides that SADC shall observe all general elections held in its Member States.

PREAMBLE
Introduction

INTRODUCTION
1.1 The National Chairman’s Office was revived at the 2017 Extraordinary Congress, where His Excellency the President and First Secretary Cde Dr. Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa appointed Cde O.C.Z Muchinguri-