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Girl (13) dies in labour, 'lover', father jailed
A 13-year-old girl from Masvingo Rural, who was a member of the Johane Marange Apostolic sect, has died in childbirth and was buried without the police being notified, in a case that has sparked outra...Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 12:14hrs | 1073 | by Staff reporter
4 Cameroonians in court for falsifying Zimbabwean passports
Four Cameroonian nationals appeared in court on Saturday facing charges of falsifying information to obtain Zimbabwean birth certificates and passports. The accused - Duma Ebako Christiana Boyombe (39...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:03hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe expands e-passport services with new centres abroad
Zimbabwe is intensifying efforts to establish three new e-passport centres in the United Kingdom, Zambia, and the United States, aiming to facilitate easier access to essential civic documents for cit...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:19hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport, ID applications go online
Zimbabweans will soon be able to apply for passports and national identity cards through an advanced online platform being developed by the Civil Registry Department (CRD). This platform is expected t...Published: 16 Jun 2024 at 09:01hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe census figures 'questionable'
ZIMBABWE'S population figures may be distorted because thousands of births and deaths of primarily children under five years, go unrecorded mainly in rural areas due to a lack of information and civil...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Parly mulls returning voter registration to RG's Office
The position taken during the inclusive Government to migrate voter registration from the Registrar-General to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has created a lot of red tape through duplication of du...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:42hrs | | 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
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
Children of illegal migrants face statelessness
THERE is a growing population of stateless children born to illegal Zimbabwean immigrants in foreign countries, new study reveals.The study, titled Cursed with Statelessness: Consequences of D...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo registry office reopens
THE Government has okayed the re-opening of the Registrar-General's Office which will see more than 6 199 children born during the Covid-19 lockdown access birth certificates in Bulawayo.Despi...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims urged to make use of free registration exercise
THE main opposition MDC-T has urged families of Gukurahundi victims to take advantage of the ongoing free birth and death registration exercise spearheaded by Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede's office...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudede dismisses politics in birth certificate registration
THE Government says it is committed to providing citizens with birth certificates and national identity particulars contrary to political sentiments that it is reluctant to give such documentation to ...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 11:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family disowns son-in-law for not paying lobola
A Chitungwiza family last week disowned their son-in-law in court and questioned his appointment as the executor of his wife's estate because he did not pay lobola. The late Pamela Mujuru's br...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Fake IDs fraud claims rampant'
COMPANIES and individuals are losing millions of dollars due to fraud involving fake identification documents, the Registrar General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede has said.Addressing officials from Govern...Published: 10 Jun 2017 at 17:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shona speaking teacher locked up in a Ndebele lessons classroom: A linguistic genocide
The politics, language, ethnic and culture problems began soon after the independence of Zimbabwe leading to the Gukurahundi atrocities in the 1980s in Matabeleland precipitated mainly by the ideologi...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 20:48hrs | 3 | by Themba Mthethwa
Time to change from our dogmatist approach
"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest" Maya Angelou. The resonance of wise words by Maya Angelou allow for applic...Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Tanaka Karanda
Man steals from bus disaster fund
A MAN using an expired passport claimed and was wrongly given US$429 from a government disaster fund for victims of a horror bus crash which killed 32 people in Kwekwe on March 3.Investigators...Published: 01 Apr 2016 at 10:26hrs | 2 | by Patrick Chitumba
Death registration kicks off in Byo
The Registrar General's Bulawayo office is conducting national identity and death registration in Kwekwe, Tsholotsho North and five Bulawayo constituencies.The exercise kicks off today (Wednes...Published: 22 Apr 2015 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
What is Zimbabwe's real maternal mortality rate?
Two conflicting figures for pregnancy and childbirth related deaths in Zimbabwe appeared in the last week. Do 525 women die for every 100,000 live births, or is the figure almost double that? ...Published: 09 Mar 2015 at 13:26hrs | 1 | by Malvern Mkudu and Anim van Wyk
Why Gukurahundi atrocities in Matabeleland and Midland is genocide
This article can be read in conjunction with the following documents: 'Breaking the silence, Building true peace', a report by the Catholic Commission for justice and peace (1997); Dr M.P. Guduza ...Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 23:27hrs | 19 | by Themba Mthethwa
Zimbabwe - An enemy within
The time has come for us all to look at Zimbabwe our country the motherland in a completely new and innovative way. It's time to re-liberate ourselves from old and tired ideas. For decades we have...Published: 08 Jun 2014 at 23:51hrs | 6 | by Tanaka Karanda
Solemnised marriages face cancellation
Registrar-General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede yesterday said marriages that were solemnised by at least 716 marriage officers that have gone underground face cancellation while mass weddin...Published: 17 Jul 2012 at 04:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
47 percent babies born to unmarried parents in United Kingdom
Almost half of children are born to unmarried parents in United Kingdom, Press Association revealed.According to the Press Association In 2011, 47.2% of the 723,913 babies born in England and ...Published: 10 Jul 2012 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by PA
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