{"id":15241,"date":"2017-11-15T19:23:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=15241"},"modified":"2017-11-15T19:23:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T19:23:25","slug":"zimbabwe-tsvangirai-ncube-challenge-mudede-over-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-tsvangirai-ncube-challenge-mudede-over-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai, Ncube challenge Mudede over \u2018aliens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T and Welshmen Ncube\u2019s MDC have jointly approached the High Court, demanding that Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede stops forcing \u201calien Zimbabweans\u201d to renounce dual citizenship as a prerequisite to be issued with new identification cards to facilitate their participation in the biometric voter registration exercise.<\/p>\n<p>BY CHARLES LAITON<\/p>\n<p>The parties together with a Harare woman, Sarah Kachingwe, filed an urgent chamber application on Monday, citing the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), Mudede, Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu and Zanu PF as respondents.<\/p>\n<p>The matter is yet to be set down for hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2017\/11\/tsvangirai-ncube-challenge-mudede-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2017\/11\/tsvangirai-ncube-challenge-mudede-aliens\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T and Welshmen Ncube\u2019s MDC have jointly approached the High Court, demanding that Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede stops forcing \u201calien Zimbabweans\u201d to renounce dual citizenship as a prerequisite to be issued with new identification cards to facilitate their participation in the biometric voter registration exercise. BY CHARLES LAITON The parties together with a [&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-15241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality","item-theme-voter-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241","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=15241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15242,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions\/15242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}