government contends that Ncube’s failure to renounce Zambian citizenship has led, under law, to the loss of his citizenship. This is not the first time that Ncube has faced attempts to strip him of his citizenship. On December 8, 2005, a plainclothes officer of the Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) confiscated Ncube’s passport. At the time, he was told that his passport was seized because his name appears on a list of 64 prominent businessmen, journalists, politicians, and activists. January 25, 2007: The Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede was ordered to reinstate Trevor Ncube’s citizenship by the High Court. So This Is Democracy? 2007 -142- Media Institute of Southern Africa