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David Coltart: handsome Matabele warrior with brains
I must confess, I feel jealous whenever I see the Mayor of Bulawayo, David Coltart in his Matabele traditional regalia. The man looks more handsome especially when he is wearing his head gear (umqhele...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 11:12hrs | 808 | by Israel Dube
6 granted bail in Zimbabwe passport scandal
Nine of the 16 individuals implicated in a scheme involving the alleged unlawful issuance of Zimbabwean passports and identity documents to four Cameroonian nationals will remain in custody until thei...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 10:58hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
16 Zimbabwe passport office employees face trial over passport scam
The trial of 16 Registrar-General officers accused of fraudulently issuing passports to four Cameroonian nationals will commence on December 18 at the Harare regional magistrate's court.The ac...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:53hrs | 3254 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passports processing officer appears in court
A processing officer at the Harare Registrar General's Office, Chipo Matovanyika, appeared in court yesterday on charges of assisting four Cameroonian nationals to fraudulently acquire Zimbabwean pass...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:42hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Cameroonians caught with fake Zimbabwe passports
Tawanda Waniwa, an employee at the Mt. Darwin registry office, is embroiled in a serious fraud scandal after allegedly issuing four fraudulent Zimbabwean birth certificates to Cameroonian nationals wh...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 11:07hrs | 2666 | 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 | 49 | 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 | 117 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - Johannesburg passport centre to open this month
The Zimbabwe passport centre in Johannesburg has been completed and will begin offering services to Zimbabweans in South Africa this month.Zimbabwe's Ambassador to South Africa, Mr David Hamad...Published: 02 Apr 2024 at 19:18hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport fee includes US$20 QR Code fee
Those who spent the night at the Harare Passport office and the many who arrived early in December received a fortunate advantage as the government confirmed the anticipated increase in passport appli...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:05hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Botswana MPs reject Zimbabwe passports deal
Botswana parliamentarians have unequivocally expressed their opposition to the proposed removal of passports for travel between their country and Zimbabwe.Responding to a statement made in the...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:45hrs | 15 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport, ID applications go online
The Civil Registry Department (CRD) in Zimbabwe is set to launch an online platform for passport and national identity card applications this year to enhance access to these essential civic documents....Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 08:55hrs | 105 | 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 | 41 | by Staff reporter
Full list of Zimbabweans on UK sanctions list
INDIVIDUALS1. Name 6: MATANGA 1: GODWIN 2: n/a 3: n/a 4: n/a 5: n/a.DOB: 05/02/1962. POB: Chipinge, Zimbabwe Nationality: Zimbabwe Passport Number: ZL042663 Address: Hara...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe passport offices to close on Saturdays
The Bulawayo and Harare passport offices will stop operating on Saturdays as per a statement issued by the Civil Registry Department.In a communique, the Department, said from Monday 27 Februa...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 20:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New law bans MPs with criminal conviction from participating in future Zimbabwe elections
MEMBERS of Parliament with a criminal conviction will no longer be allowed to contest future elections.According to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2022 that was gazetted on Friday, legislat...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC raises alarm over new tough electoral law
The Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has expressed concern over amendments to the Electoral Act, which it says could be abused by Zanu-PF to disqualify its opponents from running...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe drivers licence removed as proof of identity
LEGAL think-tank Veritas has questioned the removal of driver's licence as proof of identity in the proposed Electoral Bill that was approved by Cabinet last week.Information, Publicity and Br...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 9 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 10 | by Staff reporter
Fears expressed over Zimbabwe Extension Permit cancellation
Zimbabwean expatriates are scrambling to apply for a visa to continue living in South Africa after their Zimbabwe Extension Permits (ZEP) expired in December.If they are unsuccessful, in some ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 09:02hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters registering fake domains including for Zimbabwe passports
A fraudster has registered http://zimpassports.online to defraud Zimbabweans who are desperate for the elusive Zimbabwean passport.According to the website https://who.is, whoever registered t...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:28hrs | 2 | by Jacob Mutisi
Fake e-passport agents on the prowl
THE Registrar-General's Office has warned the public to be wary of a fake website used by fraudsters to swindle online passport applicants of their hard-earned cash.The account claims to be th...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
e-passports fraudsters on the prowl
Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans living outside the country and needing to apply online for the recently introduced e-passport should be wary of fraudsters masquerading as employees or agents of the R...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Old Zimbabwe passports to work until they expire
THE Government has set in motion plans to bring the application of e-passports to Bulawayo before mid year, and later to other provinces as part of decentralising the processing of the new travelling ...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passports valid until they expire
GOVERNMENT yesterday clarified the e-passport application process, saying current Zimbabwean passports will remain valid until they expire.The Home Affairs ministry said the online application...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:26hrs | | 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
Process to issue Zimbabwe passports online begins
Passport seekers will soon be able to apply for the travel document in the comfort of their homes and schedule appointments with the Registrar-General's Office online, following efforts being made to ...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
9 000 passports to be produced per day
The Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage says it has put in place measures to clear a backlog in passport processing dating back to March 2019.In response to the Portfolio Committee ...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 16:19hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Brave lawyer goes after RG over wrong passport IsiNdebele words
A BULAWAYO-based lawyer Mr Nqobani Sithole is suing the Registrar-General over errors and misspellings of IsiNdebele words on the Zimbabwe passport. Mr Sithole, who filed the application at th...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport backlog balloons to 340,000
ZIMBABWE'S passport backlog of 340 000 keeps mounting as the Ministry of Home Affairs fails to produce more than 800 passports per day.This was revealed by Registrar General Clemence Masango d...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Matabeleland Collective Press Statement on Staff Rationalisation at Lupane Registry Office
Matabeleland Collective notes with concern that the spirit of Devolution of Power enshrined in the Zimbabwean Constitution is being flouted by Government as it is redeploying Ndebele speaking Ci...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 23:26hrs | 1 | by Matabeleland Collective
Zimbabwe passport situation to normalise in 4 weeks' time
Zimbabweans wishing to travel abroad for employment, study, business or health related reasons may have to wait a little longer as government keeps on making many unfulfilled promises on the issuance ...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by newzimbabwe
'Zimbabwe passport not printed by Nikuv'
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa and fellow opposition legislators Wednesday took Home Affairs Minister Cain Mathema to task on why government was making citizens' lives unbearable through failure to pr...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe passport issuance continues to scale down
OVER the past year, the Registrar General's (RGs) office has scaled down the issuance of passports owing to shortages of consumables, with daily levels now around 250 against a national demand of 3 00...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 15:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport crisis set to ease
Government has assured the nation that the production and processing of passports is set to increase following the availability of machinery and printing paper. This comes after members of the...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport seekers camp at Registrar's Office
Desperate emergency passport seekers have taken to camping at the Registrar-General's Office in Marondera, but officials are only processing 10 applications per day.A visit to the passport off...Published: 22 May 2019 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
1 month to clear Zimbabwe passports backlog
THE Registrar General's Office has started producing 8 000 passports daily with a view to clear the 28 000 backlog that has accumulated at the passport office over the past years, Home Affairs and Cul...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 in court over forged drivers' licences, IDs
Four men, who are facing 60 counts of forgery after manufacturing fake identity documents, driver's licences and passports at an office in the Harare central business district were on Tuesday denied b...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bonne submits papers for Zimbabwe passport, ready for Warriors
United Kingdom-born Warriors' striker Macauley Bonne is now expected to play for the national team in competitive matches after applying a passport at the Zimbabwean embassy in London today.Th...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 21:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport office has backlog of 200 000 documents
CECILIA Majanyuke flips through the pages of her passport everytime it is stamped by immigration officials.She pays particular attention to the number of free pages in her travelling document ...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Foreign currency shortage triggers Zimbabwe passports backlog
REGISTRAR-GENERAL (RG) Clemence Masango yesterday said his department had a backlog of 170 000 passports, which has accumulated since May, and requires additional foreign currency to speed up the proc...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport backlog hits 166,500
Over 166,500 Zimbabweans are waiting for the issuance of their passports which are now overdue, the Registrar General revealed on Wednesday.The newly-appointed Registrar General Clement Masang...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:08hrs | | by zimlive.com
How powerful is the Zimbabwe passport?
There are few things more liberating than travel -- although some passports offer more freedom than others.A new report published October 9, 2018, reveals just how many borders some travel doc...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 19:41hrs | 6 | by CNN
Zimbabwe passports to be processed within 4 weeks
Government is making concerted efforts to produce and avail vital civil registration documents and passports to applicants when they need them, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Ambassador C...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Violet Gonda denied Zimbabwe passport by Mnangagwa's govt
JOURNALIST Violet Gonda has been refused a Zimbabwean passport by registrar general Tobaiwa Mudede because she was apparently blacklisted by the government, NewZimbabwe.com reported.She is bel...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 12:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
2018 elections promise to be 'smart'
The Military Assisted Transition (MAT) took place in November last year. It is now six months into 2018 and seven months since the MAT. How are we doing? Our world has certainly changed and it is very...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Henry Olonga feared Mugabe thugs would kill him
Almost 15 years after Henry Olonga wore a black armband, Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe is finally over. "I'm stunned," he says. "Here we are in a country that is Mugabe-less for the first time in 37 years...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 14:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man nabbed in Botswana over fake ID, passport
A 35-year-old Zimbabwean Lizwe Ngwenya pleaded guilty to fraudulently acquiring a Botswana national identity card, commonly known as Omang, and a Botswana passport.Ngwenya was arrested by a sp...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 07:11hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe passport seekers swindled in SA
The Zimbabwean community in South Africa has complained that nationals seeking passports are being asked to pay an additional $200 to get a new one on top of the mandatory $53."Zimbabwe Specia...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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