{"id":33153,"date":"2021-09-10T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=33153"},"modified":"2021-09-12T18:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T18:09:29","slug":"zimbabwe-ids-are-a-basic-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zimbabwe-ids-are-a-basic-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: IDs are a basic right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>REPORTS yesterday said the Registrar-General\u2019s office would from Monday resume issuing birth certificates, passports and identity documents (IDs) after months of closure due to COVID-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise, we are told, would target the marginalised San community in Tsholotsho and the Shangaan in the Lowveld, who have been rendered stateless 41 years after independence.<\/p>\n<p>These two minority tribes are not alone in this predicament as there are many other groups who have been denied citizenship in their country of origin by a toxic combination of bureaucracy and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds to thousands of Gukurahundi victims who do not have identity documents.<\/p>\n<p>There are also stateless citizens born of migrant workers.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2021\/09\/ids-are-a-basic-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2021\/09\/ids-are-a-basic-right\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REPORTS yesterday said the Registrar-General\u2019s office would from Monday resume issuing birth certificates, passports and identity documents (IDs) after months of closure due to COVID-19 lockdowns. The exercise, we are told, would target the marginalised San community in Tsholotsho and the Shangaan in the Lowveld, who have been rendered stateless 41 years after independence. These [&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-33153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zimbabwe","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153","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=33153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33154,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153\/revisions\/33154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}