Former minister of finance and lawyer Tendai Biti has said that he will be approaching the courts as he is seeking to have some of the information on national identification cards scrapped off. Biti wants the courts to order the removal of the region and district codes arguing that “they are fuelling tribalism in the country.” Biti revealed this at the at the just ended two-day panel discussion which was organised by SAPES Trust and Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition in the capital. Said Biti,
So I have a problem now when suddenly 37 after independence that there are some people who are desperate to re-label us in terms of where we come from.
This is one of the things I am going to do as a lawyer
If you look at your ID card you see something like R63, It is criminal that in this day and age we have some identity documents that locate us from some village.
My own ID says that I come from chief Mushayi, I have never seen chief Mushayi and I do not have an intention of seeing him,
My ID card tribalizes me when I am actually a born location; I grew up in Mbare .So we need to be wary of the maintenance of these pervasive tribalism that is taking place in our country
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