The appointment of the former chief immigration officer, Elasto Mugwadi, to the new Human Rights Commission has come under fire,...
...In 2001, under his watch, Mugwadi’s department supervised the stripping of citizenship status and rights of close to 1.5 million Zimbabwean mine and commercial farm workers born of parents from Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. This exercise resulted in statelessness for all these victims, who were also denied the right to vote in the 2002 presidential elections....‘He (Mugwadi) was feared and had a reputation as a yes man for the politicians. There is a lot that happened in the immigration department under his watch. A number of foreigners with vast business interests were deported from the country in the last decade. Who has taken over their businesses? Do your research and you’ll be horrified who owns these businesses now,’ the businessman said....
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