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Bulawayo fake ID syndicate busted
Two men who operated a fake identity card manufacturing scheme from inside a government registry office in Bulawayo have been jailed following a sensational exposé and police crackdown.Brian ...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 12:37hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Tredgold fake IDs masterminds arrested
Two suspects, Brian Veririzhe and Thamsanqa Moyo, have been arrested for allegedly operating a sophisticated identity card forgery racket at the Umguza Civil Registry Department, located in the Tredgo...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:41hrs | 828 | by Staff reporter
Registrar jailed for theft
Austin Dube, a registrar at the Chipinge Civil Registry Office, has been sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling funds exceeding US$7,000, though one year of the sentence was suspended, leav...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:28hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Ghanaian in court for fraudulent Zimbabwean passport
YET another foreign national managed to fraudulently acquire Zimbabwean identity documents, including a passport.She was arrested at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport over the we...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 15:32hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Passport seekers besiege Bulawayo, Gwanda offices
HUNDREDS of people are visiting the Bulawayo and Gwanda Civil Registry Offices to apply for passports saying they wish to leave the country after losing hope in Zimbabwe's political and economic situa...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans rush to beat January passport fee hike
LONG winding queues have resurfaced at the Civil Registry offices in Bulawayo as scores of people including Diasporans on holiday continue to flood the facility to apply for passports and other nation...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:11hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Decentralisation de-congests passport offices
THE decentralisation of services by the Civil Registry has helped ease congestion at passport offices across the country while the department has beefed up its staff complement to handle an anticipate...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:52hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Voters in last minute stampede to get identity cards
THERE was commotion at the Civil Registry offices in Gweru today as hundreds of prospective voters who lost identity cards jostled to process new cards ahead of tomorrow's Harmonised Elections....Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF surpasses 2018 set targets
Zanu-PF party has surpassed its set targets of 2018 with the agriculture sector now an US$8 billion industry this year up from US$2 billion while the mining sector boomed from a US$2,8 billion to surp...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
20 e-passport centres opened
With 20 e-passport centres already commissioned and with plans to ensure every district gets such a registry centre, that will offer all the other documentation that people need in the modern world, t...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:43hrs | 45 | by Staff reporter
Man forges wife's signature to facilitate divorce
A CHITUNGWIZA man was last week arraigned before Harare magistrate, Dennis Mangosi for allegedly forging his wife's signature on divorce papers.Travolta Reginald Tonderai Chitongo (29) was ord...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Unregistered children cause for concern
MANY children across the country have no birth registration certificates, which is posing a headache for policymakers, a Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) official has revealed.Zim...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds turn up for national documentation blitz in Bulilima
HUNDREDS of villagers drawn from around Bulilima district went home all smiles after having acquired national documentation at a one-day blitz at Ndolwane village.The blitz was made fruitful t...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 22:48hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
ZEC gets $74 billion for elections
The Government has set aside $76 billion for the 2023 harmonised elections to cover various activities, with $53 billion earmarked for the actual polling.Presenting the 2023 National Budget ye...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Driver's licence not official ID for voting
The Electoral Amendment Bill, which seeks to relax registration requirements for voters ahead of next year's harmonised elections and amend several provisions of the main Act to bring it to conformity...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors still struggling to get IDs
Twenty-five-year-old Charity Ncube (25), a villager from Lupane in Matabeleland North, doubts if she will ever obtain a birth certificate."My father disappeared and our homestead was burnt," s...Published: 30 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scores fail to acquire national IDs
SCORES of people hoping to acquire national identity cards during the current national mobile registration blitz are being frustrated by the snail's pace at which the exercise is going.The Civ...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Huge turnout for births registration
THE mobile registration exercise aimed at issuing more than two million birth and death certificates as well as national identity documents started countrywide yesterday with a huge turnout as people ...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mobile registration exercise begins
GOVERNMENT will today roll out the mobile registration exercise aimed at issuing more than two million birth, death certificates and national identity documents across the country as part of efforts t...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:08hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Govt opens Bulawayoyo e-passport facility
A state-of-the-art e-passport bio-enrolment centre was officially opened yesterday at the Bulawayo Provincial Civil Registry offices as Government moves to decentralise access to travel documents in l...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to start e-passport processing
IN a development that will bring a major relief to people in the southern parts of the country, the Bulawayo Civil Registry Office will start processing e-passports by 31 March, as the Government seek...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
IDs crisis: Residents sleep outside Civil Registry offices
EVERY morning, people crowd outside the offices of the Civil Registry Department in Bulawayo forming snaking queues in their quest to acquire national identity cards, a process that continues to be a ...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
2 million IDs target for mobile registration blitz
GOVERNMENT is planning to issue at least two million national identity cards (IDs) and birth certificates during a mobile registration blitz that begins on April 1.Lack of critical national do...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lack of IDs a major threat to elections, claims Zesn
GOVERNMENT'S failure to issue national identity document (ID) cards has become a major threat to elections in the country and should be addressed as a matter of urgency, an election watchdog has said....Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sanctions impact civil registration process
Illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic, have crippled the civil registration process and created a backlog of over 400 000 passports, Home Affairs and Cultural Herit...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:22hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'IDs for Zimsec candidates not urgent'
ACTING Registrar-General (RG) Henry Machiri has said there is no urgency for issuance of identity cards to Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) candidates at public schools since they were no...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Devolution helplessly biting the dust at Nkayi registry offices
Despite the unambiguous provisions of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 20) Act, 2013, devolution sadly remains a pipedream in the generality of the country. For purposes of particularity, t...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 07:52hrs | 13 | by Nhlanhla Moses
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