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Zimbabweans In South Africa To Pay Premium Fees For Passports

8 months agoSun, 28 Jul 2024 19:49:12 GMT
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Zimbabweans In South Africa To Pay Premium Fees For Passports

Zimbabweans living in South Africa will have to pay a premium fee of $270 to acquire passports, as the government has indicated that their passport applications will be treated as “express” or “emergency” cases.

An ordinary passport that takes seven days to process costs $150 in Zimbabwe, with an additional $20 “application fee.”

However, the Zimbabwean Consulate in Johannesburg has announced that the option to apply for an ordinary passport will not be available to Zimbabweans living in South Africa.

Instead, they will be required to pay $250 (approximately R4,550) plus the application fee of $20 (R364) – the same cost that Zimbabweans in the country pay for emergency passports.

The Zimbabwean government recently started processing passport applications at its consulate in Johannesburg, a move that has now resulted in the implementation of these premium fees for Zimbabweans residing in South Africa.

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In a public notice issued on Friday, July 26th, Zimbabwe’s Consul General Eria Phiri announced the new passport application fees for Zimbabweans in South Africa.  He said:

The Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has directed that, all e- passport applications that are processed at the Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa shall be handled as express/ emergency applications in terms of Statutory Instrument 1 of 2024.

In effect, this means passport application fees for the express/ emergency passport shall be USD250.00 charged at the prevailing USD/ZAR exchange rate with effect from Monday 29 July 2024.

Zimbabwe’s passport fees are the most expensive in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. An adult passport costs R600 (approximately $33) in South Africa, P260 ($19) in Botswana, and R400 ($23) in Namibia.

In comparison, the Zimbabwean government has set the passport fee for its citizens at $270, which is significantly higher than the fees charged by its regional counterparts.

Zimbabwe’s passport production is being carried out in partnership with Garsu Pasaulis, a Lithuania-registered company owned by Semlex of Belgium.

According to ZimLive, this contract was granted to Garsu Pasaulis without a public tender process, and the Zimbabwean government has refused to disclose the share of revenue the company collects from each printed passport.

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65 Comments

Mdala WaNcube · 5 months ago
This is madness mnangagwa is fighting with his people a good leader should know what is good for his people this will make people hate him and Zanu pf more Did we put our lives on line during the liberation war for people to suffer no think again crocodile
Anonymous · 8 months ago
What wrong did we commit? To experience such horrific issue
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Pakaipa😳
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Kkkkk togara hedu tisina tuchingotiza tiza mapurisa acho 270 usd umm
Anonymous · 8 months ago
I Zimbabwe yizwe lezigqila izwe esizalelwa kulo siphiliswe kulo kabuhlungu kanje iqiniso there 's nothing called democracy in that country, devil is ruling our leaders life.
Anonymous · 8 months ago
What about renewing....how much is it
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Pliz I'm confused about the $270&$250 maybe the author made a mistake...which one is the right price for the passport actually ,thanks
Anonymous · 8 months ago
270.
Anonymous · 8 months ago
It's $250 plus Application fee $20 that's when you are applying for it in SA. When you apply for it in Zim it's cheaper $150 plus $20 Application fee.
Anonymous · 8 months ago
We have come to the roofing level now ,it's either we fight or we die We are on our own as a people Is this a curse or what ,what have we done in this planet to deserve such curses?
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Nigro · 8 months ago
Passport. Driver's license, diploma and degree zviri mubracket one
Anonymous · 8 months ago
I will get it from Zimbabwe, shame on u
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
Me too that's the plan now
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Enjoy the fire you prepared
Anonymous · 8 months ago
That's what majority voted for so enjoy don't complain
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Oh God zvichapera rinhi ko kuitwa nhapwa munyika medu hr vanhu kupera kutiza munyika medu shuwa hr. Mwari pindirai
Anonymous · 8 months ago
I think it's another name of devil (mnangagwa) our suffering is 4ever bcoz all Zimbabweans are cowards whn it comes to fight for our rights
Anonymous · 8 months ago
God i pray pliz erase this so called Zimbabwe,haa zanu yationesa moto mxm,I wish I wasn't born in tht cursed country
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
Varakashi do you know that very few people earn that amount the whole month before paying any bills
Citizen · 8 months ago
Johannesburg Consul Gen. Eria Phiri ndi home boy wangu but company yaanoshandira iyi yeZANU marara chaiwo
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Asambeni ngobuningi bethu siyobhikisha asilweni noma siyafa kulungile kade safa vele
Husvu · 8 months ago
ko tikangoenda ku embassy tikanozviramba vanoita sei
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Hayi kunzima
Jorge · 8 months ago
Thats what you voted for...
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
Passports $270 car number plates $360 Let's pray for our nation to have our own currency
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
How's that going to change anything? USD or ZiG, the cost will be the same.
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
its not about our own currency its about curruption and thieving ,attitude and character yevanhu vakatungamirira imbavha idzo
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Citizen · 8 months ago
Zanu ndoivenga but Consul General weJohannesburg Eria Phiri ndi home boy wangu and good munhu manje but company yake iyi ZANU ma1
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Asisayeki pho
Nelly Bheki · 8 months ago
We are alliens
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Wotoshaya kuti passport yacho yakambodii,haina kana value yet inodhuura....imbwa dzeZanu ndivo vano promoter chi boarder jumper.
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
Kana isina value don't apply for it
Anonymous · 8 months ago
Uri****
Anonymous · 8 months ago
kubira vanhu vanotambura what kind of people are these ma foreigners amochemera kuti atonge nyika look what they are doing they have got nothing to lose
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
We are fools as a people
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
Akomana, this is stealing. A passport costing R5000. The result of colonial borders, and greedy governments.
Anonymous · 8 months ago
So you are saying there should be no borders then? Everyone should be allowed to go where they want when they want? If it is such a problem and a relic of the "colonial" era., maybe should have banned them at independence? Not everything is a colonial era problem. Why did we deport the Eqyptian nationals? If there are no borders they should be able to travel as they please.
Anonymous · 8 months ago
The normalization of human suffering by the government of Zimbabwe is shocking. But zvichapera. It's not going to end well, though.
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
They are now stealing from pple. They stole minerals like gold , diamond etc ..Now they're stealing direct from its pple
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Captain Jack Sparrow · 8 months ago
It iscommon knowledge that things in Zim are expensive as compared to other nation and it has been that way for such a longtime kkkkkkkk kwaunongoona chinhu chakachipa in Zim compared to other nation patouchline kkkkkkk kwaa
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Farai · 8 months ago
Support zanu is a cancer to Zimbabwe
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King Abs · 8 months ago
Yaah ska kwakumberi
. · 8 months ago
All I can say is that ZANU has perfected the Art of Looting
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theLastAntKing · 8 months ago
Everything that zimbabwe government does is not providing service to its citizens but it actually sells the service at a premium. when they introduced zig, upto now they reject it on most of the services they provide ie on passport application & import duty. Its costly to be a Zimbabwean especially under zanu pf rule. Smith government and gnu were far much better than a single zanu government
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
Zimbabwe goverment is not for the people it's for its own political system of **** how can a government of people do such n where is the money going because still the country is functioning well such evil people
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Antman · 8 months ago
Zimbabwe, only us who arecnot connected to ZANU PF will suffer. The elites are enjoying life in Zimbabwe drinking and eating milk and honey. Well the ones in SA if they are welcoming the emergency passport amd pricing that's great. Also remember unlike in Zimbabwe, when in South Africa they have rentals and other expenses to move passport booklets from Belgium to Zimbabwe then SA
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the gunz · 8 months ago
there's no help kana vachiti kutorera passport Joni its R5000,sakakutongodzoka kuzotorera kuno its better,even boarder jumping irinani, kutorera munhu mariyake yaanofanira kushanda gore rese ikoko.no deal
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boarder jumper · 8 months ago
ndo madeals aitaurwa naweaknero ayo ndo kuchibata kuti dzvii kunorehwa ndopanonzi vene paye
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Gunvosta · 8 months ago
tora mari United instead of assisting the people these looters are here to fleece the poor and hungry nxaaaa what's so special about Zim passport to be that expensive
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gaucho of pampas · 8 months ago
eish team rurikutitonga hariite macitizens kutotizira joni inongori tekiteki umm vanoyobirwa vatikoikoko alooter continua even across the borders
Corruptmore Looto · 8 months ago
This is just another addition in a long list of things which are taxed heavily by the regime thereby causing the price to rise through the roof, the best example being fuel where regime enablers heavily inflate the price so as to reap huge windfall profits
Corruptmore Looto · 8 months ago
The rotten corrupt regime is now making money by swindling its poor down trodden citizens, yet you will find some regime bootlickers on Pindula justifying these outrageous grotesque fees
lootocrats · 8 months ago
running down economy so that they will milk citezens who want to go out of the country… that's a genius way of making money 💰…. lootocratic settings
Corruptmore Looto · 8 months ago
Obvious it's a means of looting money which they then splash on themselves. Just look at the difference between the regional fees, this corrupt regime is something else
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Povo... · 8 months ago
This Satanist gvt , thers nothing they ever do FOR the people. everything is to suck citizens dry . BLOODSUCKERS .
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Anonymous · 8 months ago
ma foreigners vanhu ava havana basa nemazimbabweans
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4ward · 8 months ago
Yaa ,Neh...🙇

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