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Zanu-PF, CCC of accused of undermining electoral reforms
The Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC has accused the ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) of undoing the democratic gains achieved during the era of the late Prime Minister Mo...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 15:07hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Automatic voter registration for 18-year-olds in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is set to introduce an automatic voter registration system for citizens turning 18, aiming to boost voter participation and streamline election processes ahead of the 2028 elections. The gove...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:46hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Passport scandal exposes Zimbabwe to terrorism
The Zimbabwean government has raised alarms over a passport scandal involving four Cameroonian nationals who were fraudulently issued travel documents, claiming that the incident poses significant ris...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:55hrs | 871 | 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 | 405 | 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 | 217 | by Staff reporter
Families stopped from registering adopted children
The High Court has dismissed a request by two families seeking to register adopted children under their names for birth certificates, citing that the matter raises constitutional issues.Taonga...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 07:24hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Tuku 'son' cannot use family name
THE late music superstar and national hero Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's alleged son, Aaron Chaka, has suffered a blow after the High Court struck off the roll his application seeking an order compelling t...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 04:18hrs | 933 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe village heads to issue birth, death records
The Government has trained over 5,900 village heads to issue birth and death confirmation records for individuals born or dying outside healthcare facilities, as part of efforts to decentralize servic...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 07:16hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer sued RG over wrong passport IsiNdebele words
Back in 2020 a Bulawayo-based lawyer Mr Nqobani Sithole is suing the Registrar-General over errors and misspellings of IsiNdebele words on the Zimbabwe passport but we have not heard about the ruling ...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 12:40hrs | 35 | 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 | 83 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa power retention scheme raises dust
Manoeuvres by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to amend the constitution have raised concern that the 82-year-old ruler wants to reverse progressive electoral reforms and return the country t...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional changes on cards in Zimbabwe
Government has set in motion plans to transfer the responsibility to register voters from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to the Civil Registry Department in sweeping changes to the electoral ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds of Zimbabwe marriage certificates invalid
HUNDREDS of marriage certificates that were issued after September 2022 may be "null and void" because they cite a no longer valid law, it has emerged.On May 27, 2022, President Emmerson...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 09:38hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Act on stateless minors, State ordered
THE Registrar-General (RG) has been given a week to issue birth certificates to two minor children after years of statelessness.The two girls aged 10 and 12 were undocumented since birth....Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Delayed payments rile civil servants
SOME civil servants recruited by the Department of Civil Registry to issue national identity cards ahead of last year's general elections have expressed concern over delayed payment for their services...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Major shake-up at Deeds Office
A MAJOR shake-up to eliminate corrupt activities in the Department of Deeds, Companies and Intellectual Property is underway, The Sunday Mail has learnt.This follows a series of complaints and...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 08:59hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZEC cleans up voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has removed about 5 000 deceased persons from the voters roll as the election management body cleans the roll in terms of the Electoral Act.The removal ...Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 06:29hrs | | 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 afte...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set to open passport offices in South Africa, UK and US by March
Zimbabweans based in South Africa, United Kingdom, USA and two other countries will now be able to physically apply for passports in their respective host countries by March this year, Registrar-Gener...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SA, UK and USA passport centres to open this year
ZIMBABWEANS living in South Africa (SA) will begin applying and receiving passports in Johannesburg and Cape Town in March, while those living in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) wil...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 13:56hrs | 18 | by Staff Reporter
45 000 e-passports issued in December in Zimbabwe
MORE than 45 000 applicants were issued with passports from December 1 to last Friday, as most people sought to beat tomorrow's deadline, when the cost of obtaining the travel document goes up....Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans chase elusive IDs
AN icy wind whips through the deserted streets, stinging the faces of the figures huddled together outside the Registrar-General's office.They clutch worn backpacks and thermoses, a makeshift ...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 06:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi registry building in sorry state
The Nkayi Community Parliament has expressed concerns regarding the deteriorating condition of a building housing the Registrar-General's Office in the Nkayi district, Matabeleland North province. Som...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Insiza MP fumes over registry office project
A fact-finding mission, tasked with resolving issues hampering the construction of the Insiza District Registry offices in Filabusi, Matebeleland South, encountered a series of challenges. These hurdl...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport offices to be opened in SA
Zimbabweans residing in South Africa will soon have the convenience of applying for and collecting passports and national identity cards at centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town by the end of this yea...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo gives tips on voters' roll
Leading political analyst Professor Jonathan Moyo has advised the opposition to request the polling station-based voters' roll from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) as that is the official reco...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 21:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZEC unfit to run free, fair elections - Study
A NEW study on Zimbabwe's electoral politics, processes and institutions has found that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is deeply distrusted by voters, hence cannot be trusted to preside over ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:13hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
We're ready for elections
THE political environment has been relatively calm and peaceful.His Excellency, President Mnangagwa, has been calling on everyone to campaign peacefully and to ensure that we respect each othe...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:50hrs | 7 | by Mr Ziyambi Ziyambi
New Robert Gabriel Mugabe airport terminal set to open
The US$153 million expansion of Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport is now complete and is expected to be commissioned on July 13 as the Second Republic continues delivering key projects in li...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, CIO involvement in voting
In the run up to the June 2000 Parliamentary election, there was noticeable intervention of the army, and alleged war veterans. The election also came after the formation of the MDC, which fielded can...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
100 000 get national identity cards
AT least 100 000 people had been issued with national identity cards since the beginning of a government mobile registration blitz three weeks ago to allow them to participate in electoral proce...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:46hrs | | 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
Drivers' licence impasse in Electoral Bill debate
Parliament is next week expected to resume debate on contentious clauses in the Electoral Amendment Bill after a marathon and heated sitting which started on Thursday afternoon last week went into ear...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Applicants can use Zimbabwe IDs to collect passports'
People who lost their receipts after applying and paying for passports can collect their travel documents using their national identity documents, says the Civil Registry Department.Dispelling...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nationwide registration blitz underway
THE Civil Registry Department has started a nationwide registration exercise that will see more people being issued with national identity documents to enable them to register to vote ahead of this ye...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe removes over 2 500 dead people from voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has removed the names of 2 529 dead people from the voters' roll, with the list, as usual, published in the Government Gazette with the normal invitation for an...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Horror experience at Zimbabwe passport office
REPORTS of poor service delivery continue to haunt the Bulawayo registry offices with passport applicants expressing disappointment at the alleged arrogance of some officials, claiming corruption has ...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:47hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
New tech to reform Zimbabwe IDs, passports and policing
Zimbabweans will soon be able to access Government services such as passport and ID applications online, while borders will become more secure, under a new game-changing integrated digital system set ...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt probes Bulawayo passport office staff
GOVERNMENT has dispatched a team of investigators to probe alleged rampant corruption at the Bulawayo passport offices.The probe follows reports that some staffers at the passport office were ...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Give Gukurahundi victims IDs, says Chamisa's Harare MP
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator for Hatcliffe constituency, Allan Markham, has recommended that the national identity registration blitz cater for Gukurahundi victims and ex-farmworker...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senior registry officers building big houses from proceeds of corruption
DISMAYED by rife corruption levels at Bulawayo passport offices, residents have called on government to nip the vice in the bud.This comes after it emerged over the weekend that some senior re...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in fake marriages for ticket to the UK
THE script sounds like a Tyler Perry production of one of his Hollywood blockbuster movies except that it's real and the characters are real people in Zimbabwe.A WhatsApp group message is call...Published: 11 Feb 2023 at 14:44hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Spike in Zimbabwe marriages... as many stampede for diaspora jobs
SCORES of desperate Zimbabweans, particularly civil servants, are reportedly entering into fake marriages to expedite the processing of spousal visas to enable them to travel to developed countries su...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Passport backlog cleared
The Registrar-General's (RG) Office has issued over 350 000 e-passports to date, clearing the national backlog that stood at 200 000 in January, with plans to decentralise the service to four addition...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:55hrs | | 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 | 6 | by Staff reporter
No internet connectivity at RG's offices countrywide
THE Registrar-General (RG)'s offices throughout the country have clocked a month without internet access, resulting in citizens failing to access critical documents such as national identity cards, pa...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zec evasive on delimitation'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of being too secretive on the delimitation roadmap as opposition parties raised fears yesterday that the process could be rigged in favour of t...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Some apostolic sects shun ID blitz
REGISTRAR-General Henry Machiri says some apostolic sects are still refusing to get identity documents (IDs), death and birth certificates as government concludes its registration blitz today....Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe e-passports production grinds to a halt again
HUNDREDS of Zimbabwe passport seekers across the country have been left stranded at the Registrar-General's (RG) office following an alleged breakdown of machines used to produce the newly-introduced ...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in major e-passport milestone
Zimbabwe recently became one of the few countries in the world that are producing machine-readable electronic passports (e-passports) after it became the 84th member to join and participate in the Int...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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