SA based Zimbabweans want to meet Chombo

THE Zimbabwe Community in South Africa (ZCSA) is seeking an audience with newly-appointed Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo to apprise him on "sticking immigration challenges".

ZCSA is an organisation assisting Zimbabweans to comply with the new South African permit system and immigration requirements.

The lobby group's chairperson Ngqabutho Mabhena told Southern Eye in an interview yesterday they were keen to interact with Chombo though the Zimbabwean embassy in South Africa.

He said ZCSA was grateful to former Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi who was instrumental in "thrashing out a fair permits deal" for Zimbabwean immigrants in the neighbouring country.

The permits issue has remained a thorny one in the aftermath of South Africa's setting of new regulations compelling Zimbabweans to compulsorily register.