{"id":13137,"date":"2017-05-12T08:59:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T08:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=13137"},"modified":"2017-05-15T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T09:00:50","slug":"zimbabwe-government-to-amend-constitution-abolish-dual-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-government-to-amend-constitution-abolish-dual-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe government to amend constitution, abolish dual citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE, May 12 (Xinhua) &#8212; The government is pushing for the abolition of dual citizenship as enshrined under Zimbabwe&#8217;s constitution, arguing that it poses a number of security challenges, state media reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede told a parliamentary caucus of the ruling Zanu-PF party that the government would be seeking amendments to the constitution promulgated in 2013 so that dual citizenship is abolished.<\/p>\n<p>The government is currently realigning old laws to the new constitution, albeit at a slow pace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the Ministry of Home Affairs we have decided that we are not going for realignment (of the Citizenship Act to the constitution), but for amendment,&#8221; Mudede was quoted by The Herald newspaper as having said.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2017-05\/13\/c_136278183.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2017-05\/13\/c_136278183.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARARE, May 12 (Xinhua) &#8212; The government is pushing for the abolition of dual citizenship as enshrined under Zimbabwe&#8217;s constitution, arguing that it poses a number of security challenges, state media reported Friday. Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede told a parliamentary caucus of the ruling Zanu-PF party that the government would be seeking amendments to the constitution [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-dual-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13138,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions\/13138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}