Shaw and Another v Registrar General of Citizenship and 3 Others (Case No. 250 of 2022) [2022] ZWHHC 250 (25 March 2022); [2022] ZWHHC 250 KWENDA J: This is a court application for orders confirming that the applicants are citizens […]
High Court Judgement: Wheeler v RG and Others HH 181-20 judgment Supreme Court Order: Wheeler v RG and Others Supreme Court Order 2020-11-06 Note on the case by Tafadzwa Ralph Mugabe Legal Counsel: CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION ADVISORY NOTE #13 of […]
Case number: HH – 422 – 2019 MATHONSI J: This is an application for a declaration of citizenship by a 66 year old woman who was born in this country when it was still Southern Rhodesia on 1 May 1953 […]
HH270-19HC 4066/18 ZHOU J: This is an application for a declaration that the applicant is a citizen of Zimbabwe by birth as provided for in terms of s 36 (1) (a) and (b) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe. Consequential relief […]
Finding that the applicant was not a citizen by birth because the father was not ‘ordinarily resident’ in Zimbabwe at the time of her birth (in the USA). Judgment: Patel v RG and Others HH 701-18
IT IS ORDERED THAT: Any person born in Zimbabwe who is of over eighteen (18) years with an identification card endorsed alien and a birth certificate showing that such person was born in Zimbabwe and that at least one of […]
(HH 406-16 HC 9462/10) [2016] ZWHHC 406 MUNANGATI-MANONGWA J: In this opposed application, the applicant seeks to compel the first respondent, the Registrar of Births and Deaths, to issue a birth certificate to her minor child in the family name […]
(CCZ 114/13) [2014] ZWCC 5 ZIYAMBI JA: The applicant is a citizen of Zimbabwe by birth. He initially sought a declaratory order confirming his right to a Zimbabwean passport and certain ancillary relief. He also sought an order compelling […]
Whitehead v Registrar General of Citizenship & Others (SC 308/12) [2015] ZWSC 21 (12 September 2013) (Garwe JA, Ziyambi & Guvava JJA concurring) (Decision given 13 September 2013; judgment made available 16 April 2015) Summary: The appellant was born in […]
(CCZ 27/13) [2015] ZWCC 04 CASE SUMMARY Mawere v Registrar-General & Ors CC-4-15 (Garwe JA, Chidyausiku CJ, Malaba DCJ, Ziyambi JA, Gwaunza JA, Gowora JA, Hlatshwayo JA, Patel JA & Chiweshe AJA concurring) (decision given 26 June 2013; judgment made available March 2015) […]
The applicant was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, on 15 April 1944. His mother Enid Marjorie Whitehead was also born in this country on 11 April 1917. She lived and died in Zimbabwe on 17 September 2000. The applicant’s […]
(HC 7248/10) [2011] ZWHHC 128 MAVANGIRA J: This matter was heard on 24 March 2011. On 31 March 2011 this court issued an order in the following terms: “IT IS DECLARED THAT: 1. The applicant is a citizen of Zimbabwe […]