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Trump's Afrikaners refugees will not lose South African citizenship

Trump signed an Executive Order on February 7, 2025, titled "Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa", granting Afrikaners refugee status and facilitating their resettlement in the United States.In response, thousands …

Published: 13 Feb 2025 at 10:56hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans in SA urges caution over Zille's citizenship stance

Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Community in South Africa, Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena, believes people should take South Africa's opposition party leader Helen Zille's comments on giving Zimbabwean migrants citizenship in South Africa with a p…

Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 07:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Foreigners to pay U$5,000 for Zimbabwean citizenship

Foreigners applying for Zimbabwean citizenship on the basis of permanent residence will be required to pay US$5 000 cash for both adults and minors while those who seek restoration of citizenship after renouncing it, will be required to pa…

Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:47hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter

Children born in South Africa to foreign parents not automatically entitled to SA citizenship

A court has found that children born in South Africa to foreign national parents do not automatically entitle them to South African citizenship.The court then turned down an application by Zimbabwean parents for their children to be issued…

Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 22:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Guptas secure Vanuatu citizenship

Director-general of the justice department advocate Doctor Mashabane said on Friday they only just learnt that the Guptas are citizens of Vanuatu in the Pacific islands."In the communication we received, the judgment makes reference to the…

Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Investors to get Zimbabwean citizenship

Deserving investors will be granted citizenship as part of Government efforts to increase investment, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said.The Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has be…

Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter

Shona community in Kenya to get citizenship

The ethnic Shona community in Kenya, descendants from people who emigrated in the 1930s, and then in the 1960s as missionaries, will soon finally get certificates of citizenship following the decision at the end of last year by the Kenyan …

Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 14:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Mass demonstration for deportation of foreigners in South Africa set for 16 October

A certain section of South Africans under the banner of #PutSouthAfricansFirst will stage a demonstration in Pretoria calling for the immediate deportation of foreigners from the Southern neighbouring country and the cancellation of specia…

Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 15:15hrs | 15 | by Mandla Ndlovu

White South Africans look at 2nd citizenship

Cape Town - While many South Africans are adopting a "let's wait and see" approach to the country's recent economic downgrade, increasingly volatile political climate and ever-growing threats of land expropriation without compensation and …

Published: 06 May 2017 at 22:37hrs | 2017 | by Staff reporter

Foreigners stampede for Zimbabwe citizenship?

An increasing number of foreigners are applying to live in Zimbabwe permanently following a major improvement in the economy since 2009.This comes as Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya said indicators like stable pricing an…

Published: 02 Aug 2015 at 10:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Dual nationality is an irreversible side-effect of globalisation

This writer was under the impression that the dual citizenship debate was now water under the bridge. How could it not be? First there is Chapter 3 in our Constitution, then there are the two cases of Mutumwa Dziva Mawere v Registrar- Gene…

Published: 05 May 2015 at 10:51hrs | 6 | by Nick Mangwana

Dual Citizenship and the right to register to vote in Zimbabwe

STATEMENT REGARDING DUAL CITIZENSHIP AND THE RIGHT OF ZIMBABWEAN CITIZENS BY BIRTH TO REGISTER AND VOTE.In terms of sections 36 and 43 of the new Zimbabwean Constitution ALL Zimbabweans born in Zimbabwe who have at least one parent who was…

Published: 01 Jul 2013 at 12:52hrs | 2 | by David Coltart

Clarifying Zimbabwe's new Constitution, citizenship

There have been media reports that the new Constitution, whose provisions relating to citizenship, voting and elections came into operation on May 22 2013 (the publication day of the new Constitution), gives aliens the right to vote in the…

Published: 30 Jun 2013 at 11:48hrs | 7 | by Bill Watch, Veritas

Something to write home about

The landmark ruling this week by the Constitutional Court restoring dual citizenship following an application by Mutumwa Mawere represents one of the several issues to write home about. The court ruled that dual citizenship is permissible …

Published: 28 Jun 2013 at 11:01hrs | 8 | by Dr Clifford Chitupa Mashiri, 28th June 2013.

Interview: Mutumwa Mawere speaks on citizenship fight

Violet Gonda's guest on Hot Seat is Zimbabwean business mogul Mutumwa Mawere, who was recently told by Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede that he had to renounce his South African citizenship before he could apply for a Zim identification do…

Published: 07 Jun 2013 at 16:23hrs | 5 | by Violet Gonda I SW Radio

Dual citizenship and the new constitution

VARIOUS opinions are doing the rounds on the internet and other forms of media with regard to the issue of dual citizenship in Zimbabwe under the new Draft Constitution, should it become law.This is in light of the impasse between the thre…

Published: 14 May 2012 at 06:48hrs | 10 | by Lloyd Msipa

Dual or multiple citizenship âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ„Ãº Threat or opportunity!

In response to a perceived threat to national security, the framers of the Zimbabwean Constitution were clear in conferring powers to Parliament to make an election of whether to prohibit dual citizenship and define the circumstances in wh…

Published: 13 Jun 2011 at 17:03hrs | 257 | by Mutumwa Mawere

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