{"id":32687,"date":"2021-07-26T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32687"},"modified":"2021-08-04T15:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T15:58:43","slug":"stateless-zimbabweans-endure-prejudice-without-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/stateless-zimbabweans-endure-prejudice-without-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stateless\u2019 Zimbabweans endure prejudice without identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isiah Guvira, a 42-year-old Zimbabwean of Mozambican origin, has worked as a farmer in Lions Den, a growth point 114km west of the capital, Harare, for his entire life.<\/p>\n<p>Since he does not have any official documents, he classified himself as \u201cStateless\u201d because he has neither a birth certificate nor a national identity card, as does his wife, Berita Siyawaedza (35), and their three children.<\/p>\n<p>Guvira recently switched to a more lucrative line of work, illegal gold mining. This is the only field that can fit his situation because earning a wage through the bank or mobile money requires some kind of identification.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2021\/07\/stateless-zimbabweans-endure-prejudice-without-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2021\/07\/stateless-zimbabweans-endure-prejudice-without-identity\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isiah Guvira, a 42-year-old Zimbabwean of Mozambican origin, has worked as a farmer in Lions Den, a growth point 114km west of the capital, Harare, for his entire life. Since he does not have any official documents, he classified himself as \u201cStateless\u201d because he has neither a birth certificate nor a national identity card, as [&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-32687","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\/32687","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=32687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32688,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32687\/revisions\/32688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}