{"id":13465,"date":"2017-06-28T19:10:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=13465"},"modified":"2017-06-29T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T19:14:18","slug":"zimbabwe-mudede-sued-over-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-mudede-sued-over-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mudede sued over citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede has been taken to the High Court by a Zimbabwe-born British citizen, William Dale Pilbrough, and his family, who are seeking the intervention of the court for the declaration of their rights in terms of their local status.<span id=\"more-3096224743965346\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>BY CHARLES LAITON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pilbrough, his wife Barbara Muriel and minor daughters Cloe and Hanna filed their unopposed court application, which is set to be heard today in which they cited the RG of citizenship and principal director of immigration as respondents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an application for a declaration of my rights, my wife\u2019s rights and the rights of my two daughters; more particularly, our rights to the citizenship of Zimbabwe and the attendant rights thereto,\u201d Pilbrough said in his founding affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis application has been necessitated by the need for a final and definitive statement as to my status and my rights on account of the refusal by the first respondent to entertain my request for confirmation of my status as a citizen of Zimbabwe by birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2017\/06\/28\/mudede-sued-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2017\/06\/28\/mudede-sued-citizenship\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede has been taken to the High Court by a Zimbabwe-born British citizen, William Dale Pilbrough, and his family, who are seeking the intervention of the court for the declaration of their rights in terms of their local status. BY CHARLES LAITON Pilbrough, his wife Barbara Muriel and minor daughters Cloe and [&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-13465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465","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=13465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}