Zimbabwe has revealed that plans to deploy officers to issue passports, national identity cards, and birth certificates to Zimbabweans residing in South Africa have been approved by the neighboring country.
Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Obedingwa Mguni said the documents would be issued from selected points in the neighboring 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.
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 neighboring countries through illegal points while some neither had birth certificates nor National IDs.
- Herald
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