Wallace Ruzvidzo-Herald Reporter
The cascading of e-passport centres to district centres is now reaching Mwenezi District in Masvingo where construction work has started, as the Second Republic demonstrates its commitment to critical documentation.
President Mnangagwa’s administration has also since actioned plans to ensure every district gets a registry centre, that will offer all the other documentation that people need in the modern world, as living standards continue rising across the length and breadth of Zimbabwe.
Already new e-passport centres have opened in Chitungwiza, Guruve, Murehwa, Lupane, Hwange, Beitbridge, Zvishavane, Marondera, Gweru, Bulawayo, Mazowe and Bindura.
Other targeted areas which will have the facilities soon include Chipinge and Mbire District which has three ports of entry at Kanyemba, Chikafa and Chidodo border posts, where the Second Republic is also rolling out massive developments including the establishment of a town in Kanyemba.
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe said in an interview yesterday that the Second Republic was moving swiftly in ensuring that civil registry services cascade to all the country’s 10 provinces.
Thereafter, Minister Kazembe said, Government would move in to ensure that the services further cascade to district level, with the sole purpose of ensuring Zimbabweans have easy access to these basic services.
“Work is in progress. We are now renovating Mwenezi Civil Registry Office. It should be done fairly quickly. We would rather under-promise and over-deliver. We have given them a deadline that by March but we should be done way before that.
“The idea is that each and every province has an e-passport centre and then from there we make sure there are e-passport centres in every district. In each province we need to go beyond the provincial centre, which we have already started by the way, so that people can easily get these passports.
“We already have districts that have e-passport centres,” he said.
Minister Kazembe said that Government was committed to providing quality services as opposed to substandard services for the general citizenry.
Plans were already underway to build a new Civil Registry office for Masvingo Province, while work was already underway in Manicaland.
“We hadn’t covered Masvingo as a province, that is why we went to Mwenezi.”
“We could have gone to Masvingo city, but we do not want to put this service in a building that is not proper. Masvingo needs a new civil registry office as a province and that is in the pipeline.
“We have started with Manicaland, we have already started work on building a new Manicaland provincial office and the next one will be Masvingo, that is why we are moving to Mwenezi for now,” said the Minister.
“Where we have provincial offices we have put the e-passport services there and where we do not we have put them at the district offices.”
President Mnangagwa is already on record expressing his administration’s commitment to servant leadership that encompasses the provision of documentation services to the general citizenry across the country.
“A long time ago, you used to travel from Muzarabani to faraway places to apply for vital civic documents, but now you can apply for your biometric passport here in the rural areas. “The man behind this is KK (Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe), who built registry offices across the country. You no longer need to go to Harare to apply for passports. We now have more than 20 passport centres.
“We started with Murehwa in Mashonaland East to make life easier for the elderly to apply for their passports. They can be able to go to any country in the world because of the work that is being done by the Second Republic,” said the President recently.
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