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Emirates Flights To Harare, What It Means For Air Zimbabwe & Other Airlines

October 29, 2011

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Last month, Emirates announced that from 1 February 2012 they will start flying into Harare from Dubai via Zambia 5 times a week. EK713 will depart from Dubai every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 09:25am and arrive in Harare at 5:20pm with the return flight leaving Harare at 7:20pm. This is the first [...]

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A Response To: “Applying For A Zimbabwean Passport Without An I.D. Card?”

August 8, 2011

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The following is comment left by a reader in response to “Applying For A Zimbabwean Passport Without An I.D. Card?“ I post this only to try and help anyone about to go through this same ordeal…..this is from our hands-on experience. This is advice only, maybe each experience is different. One other word – keep [...]

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How To Identify A Fake Zimbabwean Passport?

April 24, 2011

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We recently received an email from an individual concerned about the validity of Zimbabwean passports issued by the Registrar General’s Passport Office. As per the email below, a friend of the individual was arrested and sentenced for being in possession of a fraudulent passport: A number of people have fallen victim to passport counterfeiters working [...]

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Applying For A Zimbabwean Passport Without An I.D. Card?

April 11, 2011

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A number of people have emailed us questions related to applying for a new Zimbabwean passport from the diaspora. One question that comes up frequently is that of the need for a Zimbabwe National ID Card when applying for a passport as per the example below: We got in touch with two Zimbabwean Consulates (one [...]

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Passport Office Corruption and Fraudulent Zimbabwean Passports

October 21, 2010

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It has been reported that the Home Affairs co-minister Theresa Makone is set to investigate alleged corruption at the Registrar General’s Passport Office. This includes paying for passports at inflated prices and/or having to pay in order to be served. The minister went on to say that she was not aware of such practises which [...]

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Zimbabwe 1980 Independence | Monument Along Airport Road, Harare

June 29, 2010

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The structure below is one that you are driving to and from the Harare International Airport. Years ago it used to be guarded by military personnel, nowadays there are a couple to security guards who don’t seem too interested in what they are doing. This stretch of road was also a popular road block point [...]

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Potholes On The Streets of Zimbabwe

May 13, 2010

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One thing that you will be hard pressed to not find on the streets of Harare are potholes. Some roads are good with only one or two potholes here and there whilst others are really bad to the point where no matter what you do, you wont be able to avoid them (click on images [...]

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The Harare Passport Office Experience

March 28, 2010

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To be frank, the Registrar-General’s Makombe building passport office experience was a ‘bitch’! Hoards of people, queues that at first didn’t make sense, civil servants full of attitude, soaring summer time temperatures, irritable applicants and the list goes on. When I first went over there to check what the price of a new passport was, [...]

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Landing at Harare International Airport

February 16, 2010

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For those of you who have not been to Zimbabwe for a while, here is footage of what you can expect to see when landing at Harare International Airport in mid November. The footage was taken from a South African Airways Boeing 737-800 flight from O.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg.

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Zimbabwe Citizen Visa Applications and New Zealand Immigration Profiling Group

November 4, 2008

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Another Declined New Zealand Visa Application For a Zimbabwean

The UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are popular destinations for Zimbabweans looking for greener pastures. With this migration brings the issue of family who have stayed behind in Zimbabwe wanting to have a holiday and visit their relatives in their new homes. Being Zimbabwean, applying for a visitors visa for any of the [...]

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The Ridiculous Cost of a Zimbabwean Passport

May 11, 2008

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From the 7th to the 10th of May staff from the Zimbabwean Embassy in Australia (Mr Moses Chikanyairo and Ms Pelagia Mbanda) were in Wellington to assist all Zimbabweans who wished to apply for a passport. For a number of people news of their visit was welcome as there is no Zimbabwean Embassy in New [...]

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