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No birth certificate joy for kids born outside Zimbabwe
07 Mar 2016 at 06:03hrs | Views
THE Registrar General's office will not relax conditions needed to acquire birth certificates for children born outside the country to curb the smuggling of children.
This was said by the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Obedingwa Mguni, during a National Assembly's Question and Answer session last week.
Mguni said the government does not want to provide birth certificates to children who may not be Zimbabwean.
The Deputy Minister said this after Zanu-PF's Pelandaba-Mpopoma MP, Joseph Tshuma, asked the government to revisit the requirements for one to obtain a birth certificate for children with parents outside the country.
Mguni said: "We all know that a birth certificate is a very important document and should be distributed to genuine, bona fide citizens of Zimbabwe. When we look at birth certificates from South Africa, they also show where the child's parents come from If a child is born outside the country, he's given a birth certificate with initials ED."
He said mothers are the ones who have the responsibility of acquiring birth certificates without hassles.
"If a mother goes to acquire a birth certificate, she has the power to acquire that birth certificate with no problem but if the father does the same, there is a problem because you may end up giving a birth certificate to a foreign child who then acquires the rights of that country^ Mguni said.
This was said by the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Obedingwa Mguni, during a National Assembly's Question and Answer session last week.
Mguni said the government does not want to provide birth certificates to children who may not be Zimbabwean.
The Deputy Minister said this after Zanu-PF's Pelandaba-Mpopoma MP, Joseph Tshuma, asked the government to revisit the requirements for one to obtain a birth certificate for children with parents outside the country.
Mguni said: "We all know that a birth certificate is a very important document and should be distributed to genuine, bona fide citizens of Zimbabwe. When we look at birth certificates from South Africa, they also show where the child's parents come from If a child is born outside the country, he's given a birth certificate with initials ED."
He said mothers are the ones who have the responsibility of acquiring birth certificates without hassles.
"If a mother goes to acquire a birth certificate, she has the power to acquire that birth certificate with no problem but if the father does the same, there is a problem because you may end up giving a birth certificate to a foreign child who then acquires the rights of that country^ Mguni said.
Source - chronicle
