Zimbabwe: Byo man (59) struggles to obtain birth certificate, ID
Published: 31/Jan/2025
Source: Newsday (Harare)
By Nizbert Moyo
A 59-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man is appealing for assistance to enable him to obtain a birth certificate and identity document (ID).
Many people in the Matabeleland region have approached government seeking assistance to obtain the necessary documents so that they are not stateless.
Many of them are victims of the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s, who say they no longer close family members to assist them to get the necessary documents as they were killed during the atrocities or died after the massacres ended in 1987.
Activists and politicians have, for years, been clamouring for government to assist people from the region to get national IDs.
Civil society organisations such as Amnesty International have also been campaigning for Parliament to act on almost 300 000 stateless Zimbabweans as they are not in the government database.
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