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Government orders end to dual nationality

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Zimbabwe government has said that an estimated 86,000 people holding dual British and Zimbabwean citizenship should surrender their Zimbabwean passports.

    A report in the official daily, ‘The Herald’, at the weekend quoting the government’s citizenship office said British nationals had originally been given five years after independence in 1980 to renounce their British citizenship.

    Those who did not renounce British citizenship would be would be deemed “residents and not citizens” of Zimbabwe, it said.

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