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South Africa deports 10,000 illegal immigrants
The Border Management Authority (BMA) of South Africa has deported nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants who attempted to cross into the country during the first quarter of 2025. This was revealed in a sta...Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 18:54hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean prophet claims to raise woman from the dead
Six years after the world watched in disbelief as a Congolese pastor staged a fake resurrection in South Africa, a Zimbabwean self-styled prophet, T Mapisarema, has triggered controversy with his own ...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 09:56hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei, the military and power politics in Zimbabwe!
DEAR READER, it was on the 13th of May 2018 that Phineas Tagwirei, "father" to Kudakwashe Tagwirei a Zimbabwean tycoon with an avalanche of ''business'' interests quietly breathed his last at the trau...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:41hrs | 1986 | by Dr P. Zamchiya
Zimbabwe miners to get paupers' burial in SA
The North West health department is awaiting essential documentation, including death certificates, to proceed with the burial of 23 bodies of illegal miners recently recovered from abandoned shafts i...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:59hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
Family feud over SA citizen buried in Tsholotsho
The family of the late Churchill Guduza, former leader of the Mthwakazi Liberation Front, has been plunged into turmoil following disagreements over the burial arrangements of one of their brothers....Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 12:00hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Dead man resurfaces 13 years after burial
In a sensational twist that reads more like fiction than reality, a 69-year-old Buhera woman, Judith Machao, has rocked her community - and social circles far beyond - with a jaw-dropping claim: her h...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 18:32hrs | 2248 | by Staff reporter
Jairos Jiri's widow reveals wishlist
Betty Jiri, the widow of the late national hero and philanthropist Jairos Jiri, has made a heartfelt appeal to the Zimbabwean government and citizens for recognition of her pivotal role in co-founding...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:31hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Ugly fight over Rhodes' estate
Allegations have surfaced that suspected land barons are impersonating ZANU-PF officials in an attempt to seize properties belonging to the estate of Cecil John Rhodes' grandson, sparking a legal and ...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:09hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate issues arrest warrant for top lawyer
Prominent lawyer Wilson Manase is now a wanted man after Harare magistrate Clever Tsikwa issued a warrant for his arrest following his failure to appear in court to face fraud charges involving nearly...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 13:25hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe heir's bid to reopen estate crumbles in High Court
An attempt by Tonderai Mugabe, a man claiming to be the secret son of the late President Robert Mugabe, to stake his claim on the former leader's estate ended in defeat at the High Court in Harare las...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 08:19hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
New arrest in case of newborn baby sold for US$180
A further arrest has been made in connection with the shocking case where a newborn baby was sold for US$180. Jestina Mashamba (45), a midwife at Sally Mugabe Maternity Hospital, appeared before Harar...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:56hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Baby-selling trio denied bail
A 47-year-old woman from Murehwa accused of helping her 16-year-old daughter sell her new-born baby for US$180 has been denied bail by Harare regional magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa.The woman, h...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:38hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt urged to halt constitutional amendments
The Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (ZESN) has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to reconsider its proposed amendments to the Constitution and the Electoral Act, which aim to intr...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 06:54hrs | 1270 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe says 'undocumented migrants a security risk'
A recent report by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence and Home Affairs has raised alarm about the potential security risks posed by undocumented migrants in Zimbabwe. The committee, chai...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 06:53hrs | 1300 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to empower traditional leaders to issue IDs
The Zimbabwean government has been called upon to expedite efforts in training traditional leaders to issue essential primary documents, such as birth and death certificates.This initiative is...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 16:07hrs | 354 | 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 | 147 | by Staff reporter
Reasons why South Africans treat the 13 digit ID number like a qualification
South Africa's green ID book has been used as the country's main identity document for 44 years, during which time it has only received a handful of minor security upgrades. Blacks only started using ...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 14:20hrs | 1682 | by Staff reporter
Woman grabs estate of late 'boyfriend'
A Harare woman, Portia Rudo Bvekerwa, is facing allegations of falsifying documents in an attempt to claim the estate of her late boyfriend, Stanley Phute, after reportedly staying with him for just a...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:00hrs | 411 | 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 | 935 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should be wary of Trojan horse constitutional amendments!
So, the Zimbabwe government is planning more constitutional changes.This is according to Justice, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, in an interview with the state-cont...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:12hrs | 16 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe chiefs now marriage officers'
TRADITIONAL leaders in Zimbabwe will now have the authority to register marriages and issue birth and death certificates in a landmark development that seeks to eliminate statelessness.This wa...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:00hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt sets new US$ fees for lost documents
GOVERNMENT has introduced a basket of new fees exclusively pegged in United States dollars for citizenship application or replacement of lost identity documents.According to Statutory Instrume...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | 5 | 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 | 12 | by Staff reporter
South Africa cracks down on Zimbabwean children entering the country to visit their parents
The government is cracking down on Zimbabwean children entering South Africa. These children are mostly entering the country to be with their parents over the December holidays.The use of unla...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises projects already delivered by Zanu-PF?
CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa took his campaign trail to Gadzema grounds in Chinhoyi yesterday, where he promised to undertake developments that have already been implemented or are being undertaken by...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:28hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders to issue birth, death records
GOVERNMENT has responded to the call to ensure easy access to birth and death records in communal areas by allowing chiefs to issue the critical documents.Following a realisation that most peo...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Dead' woman (76) found breathing in coffin
Mourners at the wake of an elderly Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive.A hospital doctor in the city of Babahoyo declared Bella Montoya, 76, dead following a suspect...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 09:40hrs | 22 | 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
Mobile ID registration progressing well
The Registrar General's Department has issued 103 992 birth certificates, 96 491 national identity documents and 2 762 death certificates as at May 21 in the ongoing national mobile registration blitz...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3 000 Tsholotsho children benefit from registration blitz
MORE than 3 000 children under the age of 16 benefited from the registration blitz that was initiated by Government in Tsholotsho last year after they were identified by community Child Care Workers....Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:00hrs | 3 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Dead' man and wife arrested for murder, car theft in South Africa
South African media have reported a hair-raising incident where a married couple was arrested and charged with murder after the husband who reportedly died in a house fire last year, was caught drivin...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 11:01hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 42 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs to issue birth, death records
GOVERNMENT is working to build the capacity of traditional leaders to be able to issue birth and death confirmation records for those who are born or die outside health institutions.A birth re...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
No to lip service, says Zanu PF
ZANU PF has warned its members against lip service support, saying the true meaning of a party supporter is one who is a registered voter and who will vote for President Mnangagwa in the forthcoming e...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 23:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Potraz accelerates govt services digitilisation
The Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (Potraz) has said it is accelerating its national digitilisation programme to enhance decentralisation of government functions through electronic ...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:19hrs | | 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
Temporary halt in birth, death certificates issuance
THE Civil Registry Department has temporarily stopped issuing birth and death certificates due to technical challenges. In a Press statement yesterday, the department said the documents ...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:52hrs | 1 | 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
3 million civic documents issued during blitz, but e-passport machine remains down
The mobile registration drive ended on Friday, with over three million civic documents having been issued.The figure is one million more than the planned target.The exercise, which was...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 08:58hrs | 1 | 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
Government releases funds for Filabusi registry
GOVERNMENT has released the first batch of funding for the completion of Filabusi Registry Office in Insiza District which has stalled for 18 years.The infrastructural development is among sco...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: The endangered species
I have a feeling the Ndebele language is endangered - and we, the custodians of the language by right of being senior citizens - are not helping the situation in any way. How would you feel if you wer...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:04hrs | 2 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF 'hijacks' IDs registration
Zanu-PF has reportedly hijacked the mobile national identity registration blitz and commandeered the services to the party's perceived strongholds to make sure its supporters obtain identity documents...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZEC opens voter's roll for inspection
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday opened the national voter's roll for public inspection ahead of the imminent delimitation of constituencies with more than 11 000 inspection centres e...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Secret grave exposes Chinese 'cartel's' identity fraud scam, fraudulent schemes
In a case pregnant with intrigue, bizarre episodes and curious developments involving what appears to be a sophisticated criminal Chinese cartel, the Registrar General's office was forced to cancel a ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:30hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks National IDs, birth certificates programme
Zanu-PF members Saturday commandered officials from the Registrar-General (RG)'s office to serve only ruling party members seeking birth and death certificates as well as national identity cards in Mh...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
110 000 e-passports issued in less than six months
THE Registrar-General's (RG) Office has issued over 110 000 e-passports to date, less than six months after the initiative to manufacture modern travelling documents was launched in January.Mo...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:28hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
90% Gukurahundi survivors suffer mental health, rights commission report says
Approximately 90% survivors of the early 1980s Matabeleland and Midlands state sponsored atrocities, commonly referred to as Gukurahundi, are suffering from mental health impairments caused by trauma,...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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