{"id":31407,"date":"2021-03-21T08:41:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T08:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=31407"},"modified":"2021-03-23T14:56:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:56:41","slug":"zimbabwe-shock-over-high-numbers-of-stateless-learners-in-matabeleland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-shock-over-high-numbers-of-stateless-learners-in-matabeleland\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Shock over high numbers of stateless learners in Matabeleland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AS many as 300 out of 700 learners at a primary school in Kezi, Matabeleland South province, were found to have no identity documents during a fact-finding mission by a Parliamentary committee, rendering them stateless.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed by Umzingwane legislator Levi Mayihlome in Parliament last week when he moved a motion calling on authorities to align the Citizenship Act to the Constitution to end statelessness.<\/p>\n<p>In international law, a stateless person is someone who is not considered as a national by any state under the operation of law.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/bulawayo24.com\/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-201127.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/bulawayo24.com\/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-201127.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AS many as 300 out of 700 learners at a primary school in Kezi, Matabeleland South province, were found to have no identity documents during a fact-finding mission by a Parliamentary committee, rendering them stateless. This was revealed by Umzingwane legislator Levi Mayihlome in Parliament last week when he moved a motion calling on authorities [&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-31407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407","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=31407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31436,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407\/revisions\/31436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}