Good news for Zimbabweans after the South African government has given Zimbabwe the nod to deploy its officers to issue passports, birth certificates and national identity cards to locals residing in the neighbouring country. Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Obedingwa Mguni said the documents would be issued from selected points in the neighbouring country as soon as South African authorities identify sites to conduct the exercise.He said his ministry would approach Botswana with the same request.
“We have approached the South African government seeking permission to issue passports, birth certificates and National IDs from their country and they have given us the go ahead.
“Our South African counterparts are now in the process of identifying places where we can conduct this exercise. When the locations have been submitted, we will immediately deploy our teams to the neighbouring country,” the deputy minister said.
Mguni said the exercise sought to ensure that Zimbabweans in the Diaspora were in possession of all valuable documents.
He said a number of Zimbabweans were accessing neighbouring countries through illegal points while some neither had birth certificates nor National IDs.
He said passports were supposed to be processed and issued within a period of two weeks, but security checks involved were dragging the process.
“Passports should be issued within 14 days and ours are issued after two months. These are some of the anomalies that we want to address. We need to introduce quick coordinated security checks that will expedite the process.
“We recently acquired a highly efficient machine from Japan which processes passports but our pace does not complement the capacity of the machine because of these delays,” Mguni said.
He said Plumtree, Victoria Falls, Beitbridge, Chipinge and Chiredzi Towns would be the first to introduce passport issuing services at district registry offices.
Mguni said his Ministry had noted that these were the main entry points for people who were crossing into neighbouring countries illegally.
“My Ministry will be issuing out a tender very soon for companies that can provide us with the relevant machinery needed when capturing pictures among other equipment that will be used by the district offices.
“This machinery, however, has to be in line with United Nations standards. The details of the tender will be released as time goes on,” he said.
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We want our right to vote for a leader of our choice in Zimbabwe. They can not continue to say Zimbabweans in SA can not vote. They are free to come and campaign in SA.
Another Zanu PF trick of rigging the 2018 election in the making.
Another Zanu PF trick of rigging the 2018 election in the making.
Shonas go back to Central Africa. Please leave the land of the Khoisan people.
Kanti wena muhole izinqondo zakho ziright? Where is the connection between your gukurahundism and this article? Hamba esibhedlela amadhokotela alungise luhlanyo lwakho.
Kanti wena muhole izinqondo zakho ziright? Where is the connection between your gukurahundism and this article? Hamba esibhedlela amadhokotela alungise luhlanyo lwakho.
You Gukurahundis rewrote our country’s history to suit your tribalistic 1979 ZANU Gukurahundi Grand Plans.
That document is in the public domain and you are now busy investigating the origins of the war veterans Communique, yet you have never bothered to do the same with this tribalistic document since 1979 – because you already know its origins. Its a ZANU PF document.
The campaign to change our country’s name is in full swing. Forget about the ‘secession’ or ‘separate country’ nonsense. That is not the real deal. Those are people just testing the waters – they are not serious.
Secession will never be the agenda; it was never on the agenda in ZAPU or ZIPRA since the 1950s – what is on the agenda is that very evil name “ZIMBABWE” that is tied to Gukurahundi, the 1979 Grand Plan and all the other evil Shona designs as reflected by the rewritten history our children are being taught at school since 1980.
This is a history meant to project the settler Shona people as the original inhabitants of our nation. This is false and come what may, in the long run, this will be changed. It might take the next 20 years or whatever, but in the end it shall happen.
We in Mthwakazi will never entertain a name for our country derived from a settler community. An arrogant one too at that.
As it is the case in East Africa regarding their decision to officially use the minority Swahili language, our position is that our nation’s name should be derived from the languages of the now minority indigenous San people of Southern Africa, not the Shona Bantu settlers from Central Africa. This is the fairest and most neutral position that will suit every tribe’s interests in the land between the two rivers. It will also go a long way in killing the Shona arrogance.
Chiwenga, get this from Mthwakazi now loud and clear. We will never settle for assimilation into the Shona identity comouflaged as national unity. You think by targeting our little Primary school children with your “andinzwi chindere” Shona Gukurahundi teachers in the name of “addressing teacher shortages” you will easily colonise and assimilate us??????
Chiwenga and your Mugabe and all your Shona Gukurahundi fellow travellers please just forget. You should not think you will live forever. The country shall live for ever, not you and all your evil designs!!