BUSINESS NEWS

1 month to clear passports backlog

THE Registrar General's Office has started producing 8 000 passports daily with a view to clear the 28 000 backlog that has accumulated at the passport office over the past years, Home Affairs and Cul...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Passports production has resumes

The production of passports has resumed following a system malfunction which was rectified on Friday. The Registrar General's office is now producing 8 000 passports a day as it struggles to clear the...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe resumes issuing passports

Following a technical glitch that had caused the Zimbabwean registrar's office to stop issuing passports, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, George Guvamatang...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe stops issuing passports

THE crisis at the passport offices is far from over, with Registrar-General Clemence Masango failing to give an estimate timeframe of when the processing of travelling documents will resume following ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

11 000 passports left uncollected at Registry

MORE than 11 000 passports have not been claimed with some even expiring before they are collected by their owners, an official has said.The Registrar-General, Mr Clemence Masango, said the department...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 December 2018

POLITICS

Foreign currency shortage triggers Zimbabwe passports backlog

REGISTRAR-GENERAL (RG) Clemence Masango yesterday said his department had a backlog of 170 000 passports, which has accumulated since May, and requires additional foreign currency to speed up the proc...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 November 2018

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Embassy withholds tour operators' passports

TWENTY-ONE players in the tourism industry recently had their passports withheld by the German embassy in Harare after the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority failed to pay $47 000 to a tourism organiser based...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Treasury intervenes in passports delays

TREASURY has intervened in a bid to end delays in issuing passports by agreeing to import materials needed by the Registrar General's Office.The Minister of Home Affairs and Culture Dr Obert Mpofu rev...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Issuing of emergency passports resumes

The Registrar-General's Office has resumed issuing emergency passports and rubbished reports that it had run out of paper to print the documents due to a shortage of foreign currency.The office tempor...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 September 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Emergency passports suspended over forex

THE Registrar General's (RG) department has suspended issuing emergency passports, as ongoing foreign currency shortages continue to affect key public and commercial operations.Zimbabwe is grappling w...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 September 2017
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