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Herald Reporter
Marriages that were solemnised by at least 716 marriage officers that have gone underground face cancellation while mass weddings have been banned, the Registrar General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede said yesterday.
The RG said the marriage officers had gone underground after his office introduced a new register to flush out bogus officers.
He said those who had failed to turn up could be fake and the marriages they solemnised in the past would be cancelled.
Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, Mr Mudede said his office had also banned mass weddings and that marriage officers would be banned from upgrading marriages.
Mr Mudede said since the introduction of the new marriage register in March this year, his office had not received any reports of marriages of convenience.
“A total of 1 253 marriage registers have been issued to marriage officers so far, yet we had 1 966 marriage officers in our marriage register,” he said.
“The figures speak for themselves. It means the difference might have been pseudo marriage officers.
“We still challenge them to come forward if they are pure (marriage) officers free from this blemish. As for now, no one has come out in the open.”
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