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Zimbabwe Government To Maintain Passport Fees In Foreign Currency

8 months agoTue, 14 May 2024 07:52:12 GMT
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Zimbabwe Government To Maintain Passport Fees In Foreign Currency

The government has decided to maintain passport fees in foreign currency, even after introducing the new ZiG currency, despite public calls for making this critical document accessible in the local currency.

Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Deputy Minister, David Kuda Mnangagwa said the government has a contractual obligation with the company that helped to establish the electronic passport system that passport fees shall be charged in foreign currency.

The new e-passport was introduced in December 2021, with the cost of an ordinary passport set at US$150 and an emergency one set at US$250.

A Lithuanian company, Garsu Pasaulis, partnered with the Government to introduce the e-passport.

Following the introduction of ZiG last month, Zimbabweans have been asking why the government continues charging passport fees in foreign currency while arresting people who buy forex on the streets.

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Senator Meliwe Phuti raised the same issue in Parliament last week and asked why the ZiG cannot be used to pay for passports, among other services.

Responding to Phuti, Mnangagwa said the passport issue was unique as the investor has to recoup its investment. He said (via The Herald):

I believe that the social contract and the mechanics around it are being discussed. It is a sensitive area that we don’t want to rush or expediently go to without having spoken to all the stakeholders.

Similar to some of the PPP arrangements that are there, I think the Government holds the sanctity of contract sacrosanct. So, you would find that there were cases where you would spend days at the passport office.

An investor came in, and part of those arrangements included foreign currency pricing. These are stamped-in documents that need to be reviewed by the relevant ministries.

The relevant authorities and stakeholders are looking at how we can possibly have all these areas within the ZiG domain.

However, journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, a government critic, said the issue of contractual obligations as reported by The Herald is false. He said:

… the truth is that influential political figures involved in the passport deal prefer foreign currency over the local one, despite claims that the latter is backed by real gold and foreign exchange reserves.

Why wouldn’t they accept the local currency under such circumstances if it is truly backed by gold and foreign exchange reserves?

As long as the ZiG is not accepted by its issuer, the Government, it will soon become worthless.

Where do they expect Zimbabweans to obtain US Dollars when banks don’t have them, except through the black market?

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68 Comments

Zim shambles · 8 months ago
haa kana musina trust benari yenyu why arresting money changers. U are a fake gvt
Shakes · 8 months ago
I believe one day all this will be a story to tell
Shakes · 8 months ago
Only God can help the struggling country.I believe One of the good days all this will be a story to tell
Shakes · 8 months ago
Zimbabwe is seriously the worst country in the world to live .the people are scared to protest for change. what kind of madness is this.
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
Back in big smoke again.everybody knows the key solution to our country..the journey is still on since from bearer cheques,bond notes ,rtgs and currently the worst zig.The end of this one shall be tried by international Court even after 20yrs,the world is watching.
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Zimbabwe is being controlled by thief's I guess we just have to stop applying for those passports and see what will happen.
Khan · 8 months ago
@ Mshayawhatever I am sure you are the life of the party at your fictional staff room where you are the senior English teacher😂😂😂
Mshayazabhoshe · 8 months ago
Not at all Khan I suggest you were just lost in translation...my point was about double standards
Khan · 8 months ago
But my point still remains a passport shouldn't be a big deal for having a passport is not a fundamental human right...They can charge the citizenry all of the Peruvian silver they want and it will still be fair in my book.. Bulwark of People United and Free
Anonymous · 8 months ago
This actually demonstrates the madness of Government using U$ as a domestic currency. An individual is paid in ZiG and they want a passport. They are then required to pay for the passport in U$. Where does he or she get U$. Say he buys it from the bank, and then pays for the passport in U$. Where does Passport Office do with the U$? It deposits in the Bank? Why can't it be a one way process. Citizen pay for their passport in ZiG. Passport office accepts money in ZiG. The provider of the service, is paid in U$ through the reserve bank.
Anonymous · 8 months ago
ZiG ngaitore passport simple hanti imari yenyika here,ZiG to the world
Pambwa · 8 months ago
It's very open that this rig money is a rigging currency, get it keep it and be rigged of your real money 💰 it's not the first time these tissues have been introduced as money but still failed. Who cooks food for everyone and say they are not eating or testing? It's because they have put poison in the food. Munofa munonyudzwa
Legend · 8 months ago
Hopewell unozotaura chokwadi chinorwadza mbavha
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Nyika inovakwa nevayo hezvo
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Why not use their Luthianan currency, two countries that doesn't want to use their own. So where do we get US dollars
Anonymous · 8 months ago
It’s pretty obvious that they are talking **** that it’s a Lithuanian company involved in processing the passports . It’s a Zimbabwean company posing as a Lithuanian company and owned by some fatcat
Anonymous · 8 months ago
the passport are been processed quicker 7 days , 3 days - the passport works - when u reach Dubai they scan the e passport and welcome you ! should one not get a commission for referring the lithuanians to the zimbabweans ?or owning a company that can produce quality passports in good time ?
Khan · 8 months ago
@ Wuto what the hell are you talking about?
chibaby fugu khan pf · 8 months ago
if zig was backed by gold & the US dollar why on earth would this European company & the govt refuse the Zig for passports???....
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Neville · 8 months ago
Saka makandisungirei forex yamunoda tisu tirikupa vanhu vanemazig
SC · 8 months ago
Why?
Anonymous · 8 months ago
why do we comply to such hyprocritical things - passport is a form of oppression -- i doubt that those who did colonisation had a passport on them - now we face an uphill task of paying for a passport then visa to go to nations where we are not welcome - one day we will have freedom of travel across Africa ! we are slowly waking up to our potential !
Khan · 8 months ago
@ ram facts do not care about your feelings
Wuto · 8 months ago
ndoda kukupedzera Khan 😋
Khan · 8 months ago
@ * please stop lying to the masses...The US citizenry is issued with state ID cards and when one wants to move out of the US they have to obtain US passport for international travel
Khan · 8 months ago
Having a passport is not a fundamental human right...It is the government's prerogative to choose whatever currency they want to charge...In America only 25% of the population has a passport yet they don't throw up temper tantrums because of it ..The passport is not an essential document but rather a luxury meant for a select few who wanna go out on business and holidays to distant lands... Bulwark of People United and Free
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* · 8 months ago
In America they don't have ID documents instead they have passports which is their fundamental right to have
Khan · 8 months ago
Stop lying please they have state issued ID cards an a passport is required if you want to travel outside of the US
🏃‍♀️ Chi baby Che Zanu 🌊 · 8 months ago
Tell the bulwark
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Have you been to America. Cause you have no idea what you are talking about
Mshayazabhoshe · 8 months ago
Sometimes reading and understanding the point is very important....the issue of whether a passport is a human right is neither here nor there ....read again and you will understand that this piece is about double standards...where a service by government is offered and whoever wants to use that service is required to pay for it in us dollars....which is not readily available at local banks but its a criminal offense to aquire it on the black market where it is easily accessible at any given time......please use your head.
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
The govmnt is afraid that if they accept the ZiG, the exchange rate will reveal how worth the ZiG is. The simple thing is for them to accept the ZiG and then convert it to USD if they only want to keep USD in their accounts.
ePassport · 8 months ago
zig is for you vanotambura. isisu hatirizive
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* · 8 months ago
Currency is just currency haina anotambura kana kupfuma, apa we're only concerned about the Zig's non-convertibility chete . If Zig can not buy the e-passport the government must let the old passport work along the e-passport.
𝙈𝙖𝙢𝙯𝙤𝙚♔︎ · 8 months ago
𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙨, 𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙮𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙕𝙄𝙂𝙨? 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙡𝙪𝙭𝙪𝙧𝙮...𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙌𝙍 𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜.
wwwwww · 8 months ago
why in foreign currency isu tine currency yedu
ePassport · 8 months ago
marwadziwa neyi. kana musina marii yokutora ma passport ne USD garai pasi munyarare
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Youbare such a coward, there is a man who once said its of little harm if a good man dies but it becomes harvoc if one fool is made ruler or given authority. What you are potraying is just selfish cowardness.
Anonymous · 8 months ago
You are a headless chicken
One love · 8 months ago
Ndo Saka vanhu vasina trust ne new currents coz government yacho irikutorambawo,Saka tirikuenda kupi manje apa.
Lol · 8 months ago
munenaro hanty
Lol · 8 months ago
I don't want to see anyone commenting pa Pindula. let's maintain this silence and we comment in our hearts. Mukapindura apa, just know Pindula is gone for good. Thank you
Anonymous · 8 months ago
People who fear the unknown like u a wasting time in life
Ma · 8 months ago
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