{"id":13015,"date":"2019-08-31T15:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13015"},"modified":"2019-08-31T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T15:05:27","slug":"images-of-mps-visiting-passport-production-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/images-of-mps-visiting-passport-production-centre","title":{"rendered":"Images of MPs visiting passport production centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe passport backlog of 340 000 keeps mounting as the Ministry of Home Affairs fails to produce more than 800 passports per day.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed by Registrar General Clemence Masango during a Thursday tour of the passport production centre, Josiah Magama Tongogara Barracks by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Home Affairs Minister Cain Mathema earlier this month while touring with the journalist promised the nation that government will soon be producing 3 000 passports per day but Masango said they are only capable of producing 750 due to lack of consumables.<\/p>\n<p>Below are combined images from the tour by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13018\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/Monica-Muchirahondo-Acting-Registrar-Passport-Production-presenting-during-a-tour-at-the-production-centre-with-the-journalists.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/Monica-Muchirahondo-Acting-Registrar-Passport-Production-presenting-during-a-tour-at-the-production-centre-with-the-journalists.jpg 800w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/Monica-Muchirahondo-Acting-Registrar-Passport-Production-presenting-during-a-tour-at-the-production-centre-with-the-journalists-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/Monica-Muchirahondo-Acting-Registrar-Passport-Production-presenting-during-a-tour-at-the-production-centre-with-the-journalists-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/Monica-Muchirahondo-Acting-Registrar-Passport-Production-presenting-during-a-tour-at-the-production-centre-with-the-journalists-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/Monica-Muchirahondo-Acting-Registrar-Passport-Production-presenting-during-a-tour-at-the-production-centre-with-the-journalists-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13019\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/one-of-the-broken-passport-printing-machines-undergoing-repair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/one-of-the-broken-passport-printing-machines-undergoing-repair.jpg 800w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/one-of-the-broken-passport-printing-machines-undergoing-repair-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/one-of-the-broken-passport-printing-machines-undergoing-repair-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/one-of-the-broken-passport-printing-machines-undergoing-repair-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/08\/one-of-the-broken-passport-printing-machines-undergoing-repair-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe passport backlog of 340 000 keeps mounting as the Ministry of Home Affairs fails to produce more than 800 passports per day. 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Home Affairs Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[128,55,495,580],"class_list":{"0":"post-13015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-photo","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-ministry","12":"tag-passport"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Images of MPs visiting passport production centre - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/images-of-mps-visiting-passport-production-centre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Images of MPs visiting passport production centre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zimbabwe passport backlog of 340 000 keeps mounting as the Ministry of Home Affairs fails to produce more than 800 passports per day. 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