Zimbabwe: Dual citizenship to be banned
Published: 27/Aug/1981
Source: The Herald (Harare)
THE Government can and will act to abolish dual citizenship and force people to choose their allegiance, the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Senator Simbi Mubako, said in Salisbury yesterday.
Speaking to the National Unifying Force on the problems of the Lancaster House Constitution, he emphasised that any alteration would be done by entirely legal processes.
The provisions relating to dual citizenship are not entrenched in the Constitution to the extent that it is for all practical purposes impossible alter them.
“The Government can act, and the Government will act, to correct this unnecessary permissiveness.”
Senator Mubako said the retention of dual citizenship had caused the Government many headaches.
“For example, there are senior civil servants who have Zimbabwean and South African citizenship. Quite apart from the security risk these people may pose . . . it seems to me inconceivable that a person can hold allegiance to two countries which have such conflicting ideals, aims and politics.”
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