Govt dismisses ‘statelessness’ report

GOVERNMENT yesterday reacted angrily to a report by  Amnesty International in Zimbabwe detailing how the country’s discriminatory and arbitrary nationality laws had left generations of migrant workers and their families marginalised.

In April 2021, Amnesty International launched a report titled We Are Like “Stray Animals” laying bare the devastating consequences of the statelessness crisis in Zimbabwe and how it has its roots in colonial history.

However, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage secretary Raphel Faranisi, appearing before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, Defence, Security and War Veterans, dismissed the report as outdated.

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