By Own Correspondent| Voter registration for those wishing to vote in the forthcoming harmonised elections slated for July 30 2018 will officially end this Friday, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced.

ZEC Chairperson, Justice Priscilla Chigumba revealed that all those who register after Friday will not be able to vote in the 2018 harmonised elections. However, voter registration will continue although those who register after the Friday deadline will only vote in the post 2018 elections.

The country’s elections body made this announcement at a press conference in Harare (Wednesday).

The announcement follows the proclamation of the election date by President Emmerson Mnangagwa through a government Gazette published (Wednesday).

“There has been an amendment to the law; two days after announcement of election dates is the deadline to register. That gives us sufficient time to prepare the final voters’ roll…

The next port of call is the gazetting of the provisional voters roll by the President. Fourteen days after proclamation of election dates, the nomination court will sit and we will be able to give the final voters’ roll to political parties,” said Justice Chigumba.