{"id":175602,"date":"2024-06-30T19:43:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-strict-measures-in-place-for-passport-issuance-abroad-assures-minister-mhona\/"},"modified":"2024-06-30T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:43:15","slug":"zimbabwe-strict-measures-in-place-for-passport-issuance-abroad-assures-minister-mhona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-strict-measures-in-place-for-passport-issuance-abroad-assures-minister-mhona\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Strict Measures in Place for Passport Issuance Abroad, Assures Minister Mhona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Government has promised rigorous procedures for issuing passports to citizens living abroad, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona confirmed during a Parliamentary session on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Minister Mhona, who was acting Leader of Government Business in Parliament, provided this assurance in response to a query from Silobela Member of Parliament Jonah Nyevera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nyevera raised concerns about ensuring that only genuine Zimbabwean citizens benefit from the passport issuance&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406280465.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has promised rigorous procedures for issuing passports to citizens living abroad, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona confirmed during a Parliamentary session on Wednesday. Minister Mhona, who was acting Leader of Government Business in Parliament, provided this assurance in response to a query from Silobela Member of Parliament Jonah Nyevera. Nyevera raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8224,17722,7305,48913,5941,257,4346,8673,254,22932,4686,421],"class_list":["post-175602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assures","tag-issuance","tag-measures","tag-mhona","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-passport","tag-place","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strict","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}