Identity verification
built for Zimbabwe 
Zimbabwe National ID and Passport on one session, screened against Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, FIU, and global AML watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
Trusted by 2,000+ organizations worldwide.
How identity verification works in Zimbabwe.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Zimbabwean identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on mobile-money platforms and informal-remittance corridors, National ID forgery across the older and newer card formats, and cross-border AML risk on the South Africa, Zambia, and Mozambique corridors under FATF enhanced monitoring. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act (MLPCA) 2013
- Cybersecurity and Data Protection Act 2021
- Banking Act (Chapter 24:20)
- FATF enhanced monitoring — Zimbabwe under observation
- ESAAMLG Mutual Evaluation recommendations
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Zimbabwe.
RBZ
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe — central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers including mobile-money operators.
FIU Zimbabwe
Financial Intelligence Unit — Zimbabwe's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act (MLPCA) 2013 and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs).
ZIMRA
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority — administers tax, customs, and excise compliance. Cooperates with FIU Zimbabwe on financial-crime investigations.
SECZ
Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe — capital-markets supervisor for licensed securities dealers, fund managers, and collective investment schemes with AML/CFT obligations.
Cyber Security Ministry
Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services — enforces the Cybersecurity and Data Protection Act 2021, governing how identity-verification data is processed on Zimbabwean residents.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Identity Card, Passport (MRZ parsed), driving licence, and birth certificate as supplementary ID.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
- National Identity Card
- Passport — MRZ parsed
- Driving Licence · Birth Certificate
Match the face. Prove it's a real person..
Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.
- Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
- Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Zimbabwean watchlists:
- National Assembly of Zimbabwe — Members of Parliament (PEP Level 1) and senior executive-branch officials.
- Zimbabwe Republic Police — state-security enforcement register and active wanted-persons notices.
- Zimbabwe Legal Information Institute (ZimLII) — court-ordered designations and enforcement signals.
- ZIMRA — Zimbabwe Revenue Authority — tax-enforcement actions and debarment notices.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions — active multilateral designations with Zimbabwe nexus.
- OFAC SDN List — US Treasury Specially Designated Nationals — significant Zimbabwe-specific list.
- EU Consolidated Sanctions List — Zimbabwe-specific sanctions regime maintained since 2002.
- ESAAMLG — Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group regional risk signals.
- Interpol Southern Africa — wanted-persons and fugitive notices relevant to Southern Africa.
- Basel AML Index — country risk score and associated risk signals.
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Database validation.
- There is no public government database validation API for Zimbabwe currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Registrar General's Office does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Zimbabwe document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Zimbabwe.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Zimbabwe.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.