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Parents face charges for children's offences
Parents whose minor children are found guilty of drug-related or sexual offences in a court of law may also be held legally liable, potentially facing hefty fines or jail sentences, according to Zimba...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:35hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe begins paying long-delayed Civil Registry allowances
The government has finally started disbursing long-overdue allowances to civil servants who participated in the Civil Registry Department's voter registration mop-up exercise ahead of the 2023 general...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 09:40hrs | 158 | 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 | 844 | by Staff reporter
Fake ID scam exposed at Bulawayo's Tredgold building
A fake national identity document scam operating from within the Civil Registry Department's Tredgold Building in Bulawayo has been uncovered, implicating an employee of a private company contracted b...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:40hrs | 2537 | by Staff reporter
Fake Zimbabwe ID syndicate busted in Bulawayo
A syndicate behind the production of fake national identity documents has been exposed at the Civil Registry Department's Tredgold building in Bulawayo, with links to a company contracted by the Depar...Published: 09 Apr 2025 at 21:26hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Kwekweza gives Registrar General 48-hour ultimatum over ID denial
Human rights defender Namatai Kwekweza has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Registrar General Henry Machiri, demanding the immediate issuance of her national identity card. Kwekweza's legal representativ...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 09:02hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
High Court official quits over US$2 million property 'fraud'
A high-ranking civil registry official at Zimbabwe's High Court, Traver Mupita, has resigned following the initiation of disciplinary proceedings by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) concerning hi...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 12:29hrs | 1652 | by Staff reporter
Is your Zimbabwe property safe from property hijackers
This is a follow up article of title deeds fraud which I wrote in January 2022 that went viral. There is now a new fraud trend called Property Hijacking happening in South Africa. Property hijacking i...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 22:32hrs | 772 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says there iso excuse for not registering to vote
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored all Zimbabweans to register to vote ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections saying those without identity particulars should take advantage of the ongoing free registry...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa waivers parentage proof for birth certificates
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has brought relief to Zimbabweans who have been struggling to acquire crucial documents like birth certificates after he directed that parental proof is not a requirement in the on...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | 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 'forgotten citizens'
THE Registrar-General (RG's) office yesterday started issuing identity documents to the San community in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North, creating a sense of belonging among these almost forgotten citi...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thousands denied citizenship in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's discriminatory citizenship laws have rendered thousands of people stateless and pushed them to the fringes of society, depriving them of access to education, healthcare, and housing, Amnest...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean refugees return from Botswana
FORTY-EIGHT Zimbabweans who were refugees in Botswana returned home yesterday following a joint initiative by Government, Botswana as well as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Most of...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bribery and corruption spree at registry offices
Allegations of corruption and bribery have resurfaced at some of the country's registry offices with clients, especially those intending to collect their passports being forced to pay bribes to get tr...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Touts 'hassle' back at passport offices
TOUTS operating outside the Bulawayo Passport Offices are allegedly cashing in on desperate travel document seekers as they claim to be working with registry officials to facilitate processing of pass...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 14:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hundreds prospective voters turned away for not having National IDs
Hundreds of people trying to register to vote are being turned away in Matobo district for not having national identity particulars in an area which was hard hit by the Gukurahundi genocide in the 198...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Govt pays batch of civil servants bonuses
THE Government yesterday paid another batch of civil servants their July salaries and 2016 bonuses, with the grant aided institutions expected to receive their dues on Thursday next week. Public Servi...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF's parallel voter registration scam exposed
We have been tracking a clandestine voter registration scam by Zanu PF using Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede's office outside and ahead of the legal voter registration process by ZEC, now legally man...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 11:47hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
San language lobbyist Banini Moyo dies
SAN language lobbyist Moffatt Banini Moyo of Sanqinyana village in Tsholotsho who assisted in the transcribing of literature to the Tshwao language at the University of Zimbabwe in 2013 has died. ...Published: 01 Sep 2014 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Dead' woman seeks passport
A 31-year-old Plumtree woman was shocked to discover that she was registered as dead when she went to apply for a passport at the Registrar-General (RG)'s office in Bulawayo late last year.Sin...Published: 15 Jan 2014 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-detective sentenced to 3 years behind bars
Former detective Gilbert Zvaita was yesterday sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for deliberating using Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Rita Makarau's name to cover ...Published: 01 Nov 2013 at 02:04hrs | | by Court Reporter
Registry official struck with an axe, left for dead
THE two brothers who left a Gwanda Registry officer for dead when they struck him with an axe and went on to rob him of his money, have been sentenced to six years in prison. Joseph Joma (27)...Published: 28 Aug 2013 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Voter registration dominates Cabinet
Voter registration again dominated cabinet discussions this week as it became more apparent that bureaucratic bungling and systematic disenfranchisement of potential voters by the Registrar-General's ...Published: 17 May 2013 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
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