{"id":231395,"date":"2026-04-25T15:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-proposes-use-of-identity-cards-for-citizens-to-cross-between-zimbabwe-and-botswana\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:36:53","slug":"zimbabwe-mnangagwa-proposes-use-of-identity-cards-for-citizens-to-cross-between-zimbabwe-and-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-proposes-use-of-identity-cards-for-citizens-to-cross-between-zimbabwe-and-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Proposes Use of Identity Cards for Citizens to Cross Between Zimbabwe and Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has proposed that Zimbabweans and Batswana intending to cross either side of the border of the neighbouring nations use national identity cards instead of passports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The idea, Mnangagwa said, would help ease movement of people and goods, thereby promoting bilateral trade between Zimbabwe and Botswana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In his address Wednesday during the fifth session of the Zimbabwe-Botswana Bi-National Commission attended by President Duma Boko in Harare, Mnangagwa said both countries&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604230065.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has proposed that Zimbabweans and Batswana intending to cross either side of the border of the neighbouring nations use national identity cards instead of passports. The idea, Mnangagwa said, would help ease movement of people and goods, thereby promoting bilateral trade between Zimbabwe and Botswana. In his address Wednesday during the fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,8106,7604,8816,10028,7476,257,7995,254,4686],"class_list":["post-231395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-cards","tag-citizens","tag-cross","tag-identity","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-proposes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231395","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=231395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}