{"id":23303,"date":"2019-07-16T20:08:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23303"},"modified":"2019-07-16T20:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:08:45","slug":"zimbabwe-mr-registrar-general-let-the-people-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-mr-registrar-general-let-the-people-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mr Registrar-General, let the people go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest column: Paul Kaseke<\/p>\n<p>For some time now, Zimbabweans have not been able to renew their passports or obtain new ones due to what the Registrar-General\u2019s office has termed \u2018an acute shortage of passport paper\u2019. <span id=\"more-3096224744027082\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">It almost seems like the RG\u2019s office has become like the biblical Pharaoh, who would not let the Israelites leave Egypt.<\/div>\n<p>In this edition, we explore the legal position on this matter and what the State\u2019s obligations are in this respect.<\/p>\n<p>I should start by pointing out that the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission has already described the situation as a violation of human rights and has promised to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Many people are wondering why the commission would link the passport saga to a violation of human rights. Surely, the issuing of passports for people to travel is not a basic right and seems more like a luxury.<\/p>\n<p>No, that is not so. Our Constitution adequately deals with this in quite a lot of detail.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2019\/07\/mr-registrar-general-let-the-people-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2019\/07\/mr-registrar-general-let-the-people-go\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guest column: Paul Kaseke For some time now, Zimbabweans have not been able to renew their passports or obtain new ones due to what the Registrar-General\u2019s office has termed \u2018an acute shortage of passport paper\u2019. It almost seems like the RG\u2019s office has become like the biblical Pharaoh, who would not let the Israelites leave [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303","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=23303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23304,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303\/revisions\/23304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}