Passport production expected to increase

The Registrar-General (RG) Clemence Masango has received passport production supplies and a printer, a development that is set to ease the current shortage of the travel document, with 340 000 citizens already on the waiting list.

Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage minister Cain Mathema told journalists during a tour of the Harare Passport Offices yesterday that US$3 million had been paid to suppliers of passport consumables.

“Following the signing of a payment plan on June 17, 2019 with the suppliers of consumables to deal with the US$7 million that the department (passport production) owed, treasury has so far made the following payments, June 20 — US$1 million, June 26 — US$1 million and July 24 — US$1 million.

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