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5000 Whites Renounce Their
Zimbabwean Citizenship
10 Whites Have Been Killed In Zimbabwe During the Past 2
Years. Over 1000 Whites Were Killed In South Africa In Past 2 Years.
 
Herald -Ziana
1-24-2


More than 5000 white Zimbabweans have renounced their Zimbabwean citizenship to take up mostly British and other European passports.
 
This follows the Government s deadline for all Zimbabweans holding dual citizenship to renounce their foreign passports by the end of the renunciation period early this month.
 
The Minister of Home Affairs, Cde John Nkomo, told Parliament yesterday that most of those who had renounced the Zimbabwean citizenship were of European origin.
 
"These people had all along claimed they were citizens of this country and that they had renounced their other citizenship," said Cde Nkomo.
 
"They were the noise makers who caused confusion because they knew they did not hold any stake in this country. They wanted to draw back the independence of Zimbabwe."
 
Cde Nkomo was answering a question from Mberengwa West MP, Cde Joram Gumbo of Zanu-PF, who had inquired on the number of those who had met the January 6 deadline to renounce dual citizenship.
 
The Government abolished dual citizenship after observing that many foreigners were claiming to be helping the country as citizens when in actual fact they were acting against it.
 
The Movement for Democratic Change even went to court to challenge the legality of asking mostly the British to renounce their Zimbabwean citizenship ahead of the presidential poll.
 
The opposition party wanted them to be allowed to vote despite their preferred national status.
 
Some of those who have renounced their Zimbabwean citizenship for British citizenship included Supreme Court judge, Justice McNally and his wife.
 
It is understood that there are more than 25 000 British passport holders in Zimbabwe, whom the United Kingdom government was promising to airlift out of Zimbabwe in the event that the political situation in the country further deteriorated.
 
As part of its propaganda campaign, the British Labour government claimed that its ministers had drawn up plans to airlift the more than 25 000 British passport holders to safety amid fears that Zimbabwe s election will descend into violence during the next seven weeks.
 
The same propaganda was churned out during the country s June 2000 parliamentary elections when the British government first revealed its hidden hand in Zimbabwe s politics.
 
However, Zimbabwean Government expressed that the British did not need emergency measures to evacuate its nationals but could simply ask them to board a plane to London. But no evacuation took place.
 
In order to heighten tension ahead of the country s presidential poll, it was being reported that even South Africa was making contingency plans to accept a flood of Zimbabwean refugees who were likely to flee the country before and after the elections.
 
Two years ago, British newspapers were awash with stories that the European Union had approached Mozambique and South Africa for help in evacuating Britons and others if Zimbabwe s land reform programme intensified.
 
According to reports from London last week, British officials "believe that the situation is now much more serious and that there is a strong possibility action will be needed." However, less than 10 white farmers have died in Zimbabwe over the past two years while over 1 000 white farmers have lost their lives in South Africa and no emergency rescue efforts have been taken by Britain.


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