Zim to reconsider passport machine

She told women who are members of a funeral association she helped set up here at the weekend that the decision to refuse the SA offer was “ill advised”.

The Zimbabwe government had late last year been offered by South Africa a machine that prints about 7000 passports a day. The Registrar- Generals office is said to produce only 500 passports per week.

The decision to reject the South African offer of a machine that has capacity to produce 7 000 passports a day was ill advised. I admit that the advice we got from our advisors was not useful at all, Makone said. We are going to sit again with Minister Mohadi (Kembo) and accept the offer. We will then take it to Cabinet to explain to them that we had got wrong advice to reject the South African offer.

We need to take the offer because there is no security threat, especially considering that we are not able to offer our citizens travelling documents in good time. Other nations will see us as unreasonable people, people who cannot use their brains rationally, she added.