{"id":247360,"date":"2026-10-16T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-erc-africa-calls-for-voter-registration-blitz-after-zec-handover\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:30:17","slug":"zimbabwe-erc-africa-calls-for-voter-registration-blitz-after-zec-handover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-erc-africa-calls-for-voter-registration-blitz-after-zec-handover\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ERC Africa Calls for Voter Registration Blitz After ZEC Handover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">THE Election Resource Centre (ERC) Africa has called on the Registrar-General to conduct a nationwide voter registration blitz and immediately launch a voters&#8217; roll inspection campaign following the transfer of voter registration functions from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The electoral advocacy organisation said the measures were necessary to ensure eligible citizens could register to vote and verify their details following the transfer of responsibilities under the Constitution of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610160493.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Election Resource Centre (ERC) Africa has called on the Registrar-General to conduct a nationwide voter registration blitz and immediately launch a voters&#8217; roll inspection campaign following the transfer of voter registration functions from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). The electoral advocacy organisation said the measures were necessary to ensure eligible citizens could register to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,16926,6137,41715,16260,257,7231,254,7230,13921,4686,421],"class_list":["post-247360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blitz","tag-calls","tag-erc","tag-handover","tag-news","tag-registration","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voter","tag-zec","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}