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Hope at last for Zimbabweans in South Africa
In November 2021, South Africa's Department of Home Affairs (DHA) abruptly announced that it would not extend the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP), leaving hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans scrambl...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 11:52hrs | 6686 | by Staff reporter
ZEP holders not keen on Zimbabwe return
ZIMBABWEANS that are facing deportation from South Africa after the expiry of their special permits in June are not taking the government's offer to register for assistance to return home voluntarily,...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why is South Africa not renewing 160,000 Zimbabwean work permits?
Thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa face an uncertain future and possible deportation before a June 2023 expiration of their work permits, following an announcement by the home government ...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA court to decide ZEP holders' fate this week
ZIMBABWE Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders in South Africa will this week learn of their fate when their case is heard by a full bench at Pretoria High Court starting today.The full bench will he...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA court to hear challenge to Motsoaledi's decision on Zimbabwe Exemption Permits
The Helen Suzman Foundation's (HSF) challenge of home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi's decision to terminate the Zimbabwe exemption permit (ZEP), will be heard between 11 and 14 April, alongside tw...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 17:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA faces largest exodus of Zimbabweans
A country which was once looked at as a place of refuge and possible safe haven for Zimbabwean nationals, is gearing up for what is expected to be one of the largest exoduses of Zimbabweans this year....Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
No hope for Zimbabwe Exemption Permit holders?
THE National Employers' Association of South Africa (NEASA) has called on its members to check Zimbabwean employees' documentation ahead of the expiry of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs) in Decem...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
No hope for Zimbabwe Exemption Permits holders
THE National Employers' Association of South Africa (NEASA) has called on its members to check Zimbabwean employees' documentation ahead of the expiry of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs) in Decem...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will welcome you back home, minister tells ZEP holders
ZIMBABWE's Foreign Affairs minister Fredrick Shava says government is ready to welcome fellow citizens who fail to meet requirements to obtain South African permits to remain in that country.S...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 18:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe exemption permit saga: SA Home Affairs facing fresh lawsuit as another challenger enters fray
The Department of Home Affairs is facing another lawsuit relating to the looming termination of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP).The ZEP is a special dispensation permit established more ...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
SA's Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a ‘fraud'
The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme is the "largest case of fraud and theft ever committed by the government of one country over nationals of its neighbouring country in African history", accor...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 07:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Exemption Permits holders' choice: Restart in a broken country or live undocumented in SA
THREE Zimbabweans who held Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs), which the South African government has now scrapped, share their anxiety and anguish as they face deportation, uprooting their lives and...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC relates better with ex-Zapu ambassadors, says Tshinga Dube
FORMER War Veterans deputy minister Tshinga Dube has stopped short of blaming the anxiety faced by Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa over expiring permits on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "wrong"...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans told to leave South Africa ?
Thousands of Zimbabweans recently given 12 months to leave South Africa have suffered a double whammy after a "cruel" decision by Zimbabwean authorities which will rob them of a chance to enjoy the Ne...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans engage South African government over permits
THE Zimbabwe Community in South Africa (ZCSA) has engaged South Africa's Department of Home Affairs seeking a waiver of some of the requirements for obtaining permits following a decision by that coun...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
South African government breaking its neck
The recent verdict enacted by the South African government to decline the regeneration of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) is disingenuous and unscrupulous in more ways than one.Traversin...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:36hrs | 8 | by Matthew Dube Esquire
SA to decide on renewal of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits
THE South African Cabinet will soon announce a decision on the renewal of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) for nearly 180 000 Zimbabweans based in the neighbouring country.Zimbabweans have...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA panic over permits
Zimbabweans in South Africa are in limbo over the fate of their exemption permits that are set to expire in December this year, as the South African government is mum on the way forward.Althou...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
250,000 special permits Zimbabweans seek South African citizenship
Nearly a quarter of a million Zimbabweans who were issued temporary residence permits in South Africa since 2009 are asking a court to grant them permanent residence, a pathway to citizenship....Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 20:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa gives Zimbabweans end of July deadline to collect permits
South African Home Affairs Department has reported that the department still has over 3 000 Zimbabwe Exemption Permits outcomes that have not been collected by applicants.In a circulating mess...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 21:28hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How to use 10ngah.com
Online retailer, 10ngah.com, will this week commence Black Friday sales for Zimbabwean customers seeking bargains ahead of the festive season,...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 16:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans still waiting for SA permits as deadline looms
Some Zimbabweans who have applied for their Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) are anxious about the slow progress processing their permits. Without a valid permit to show, they find their bank accounts...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 12:13hrs | | by Tariro Washinyira
Zimbabweans in limbo after giving SA home affairs asylum papers
In 2009, the South African government introduced the Dispensation of Zimbabweans Project (DZP) to legalise the many Zimbabweans already inside the country because of the political and socio-economic s...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA may reject almost 50 000 ZSP permit holders!
The ZEP Dispensation Forum, previously known as the ZSP Permits Forum is a largely online voluntary community platform formally established in 2014 which has currently about 10 000 online members, and...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 18:31hrs | 6 | by Mthokozisi Ndiweni
Zimbabwe engages SA over permits
THE Government has started engaging South African authorities over permits for Zimbabweans which are set to expire in December.At least 200 000 Zimbabweans in South Africa face deportation whe...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Angolan cessation permit and Zimbabwe dispensation permit, a possible blueprint?
On the 8th of July of 2017 the Minister of Home Affairs announced that the almost 1800 former Angolan Refugees who had been on the Angolan Cessation Permit (ACP) had been granted their permanent resid...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 07:48hrs | | by Munyaradzi Nkomo
Zimbabweans in SA divided over ZSP
THOUSANDS of Zimbabweans living in South Africa are divided on the planned move by some of their compatriots to approach the courts to seek an extension of the Zimbabwe Special Permits (ZSP) expiring ...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA urged to renew permits before expiry date
UNCERTAINTY has gripped thousands of Zimbabweans based in South Africa after the host country announced on Wednesday that all special dispensation permits issued since 2009 are expiring on December 31...Published: 29 May 2017 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
No new SA permits for Zimbabweans
THE South African government has dismissed reports claiming that 200 000 Zimbabweans currently on permits issued under the Zimbabwe Special Permits (ZSP) project, were now eligible to apply for the pe...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 04:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bogus article on 'New Permits For ZSP Holders'
There is a report titled New Permits For ZSP Holders from a website called Newsfromafrica.net, alleging that South ...Published: 25 Mar 2017 at 19:38hrs | 1 | by Bulawayo24
SA announces end to special dispensation for Zimbabweans
SOUTH Africa has announced that Zimbabweans who acquired permits under special dispensation will have to follow the normal channel of applying for work and study visas when their permits expire in...Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean graduates to get permanent SA visas
THE South African government has announced that foreign students graduating from its universities in critical skills areas now qualify for permanent and long term work permits so that their talents ca...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 11:19hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Zimbabweans under ZSP have to look for other options, says Gigaba
THE almost 200 000 Zimbabweans currently on permits issued under the Zimbabwean Special Permit (ZSP) project have to seek alternative permits if they wish to extend their work, study or stay...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 07:30hrs | | by ANA
Zimbabweans in SA face mass deportation
THOUSANDS of Zimbabweans based in South Africa face deportation after failing to raise R1 350 required for transferring their permits from old to new passports.Zimbabwe Community in South Afri...Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 12:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA approves 197,790 permits for Zimbabweans
SOUTH Africa has so far approved 197,790 permits out of a total of 208,967 applications made under the Zimbabwe Special Permits (ZSP) programme. ZSP, which was introduced in August last year, allows Z...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
SA rejected over 25 ZSP applications for serious crimes
South African authorities are reported to have rejected 25 Zimbabweans applications for special permits on the grounds that the applicants were associated with criminal activities in that country....Published: 07 Nov 2015 at 07:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
South Africa to set up visa centre in Harare
SOUTH Africa will next year set up a visa facilitation centre in Harare targeting Zimbabweans who wish to apply for study and work permits.Mayihlome Tshwete, the spokesperson for South Africa'...Published: 02 Nov 2015 at 05:33hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Zimbabweans fear SA deportation
CAPE TOWN - The immigrant rights group People Against Suffering Oppression and Poverty (Passop) is concerned that hundreds of Zimbabweans are being told to leave South Africa imminently.Passop...Published: 06 Aug 2015 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter I DM
SA permits, Zimbabwean immigrants given a lifeline
SOUTH Africa has reportedly given Zimbabweans whose applications for work and business permits were turned down to appeal the decision, giving a lifeline to thousands of immigrants facing deportation....Published: 28 May 2015 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA starts deportation of foreigners
A representative of the organisation working to assist Zimbabweans in South Africa has said the neighbouring country has started the deportations of foreigners amid revelations Zimbabweans are lik...Published: 08 May 2015 at 06:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Deportation of foreigners intensifies in South Africa
As people might be aware, deportations have started on a serious note. This is in reaction to the issues raised by South Africans regarding the number of foreigners, especially the illegal/undocumente...Published: 06 May 2015 at 12:43hrs | | by Butholezwe Nyathi
Zimbabweans face court challenges over 'fake' SA IDs
Scores of Zimbabweans living in South Africa are living in desperate situation as some are now being dragged to the courts after they surrendered their South African Identity particulars in order to ...Published: 13 Apr 2015 at 15:12hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe Special Permits latest
Statement by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba at the media briefing on the Zimbabwean Special Permit application process, 17 March 2015, MidrandPub...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 11:09hrs | | by Malusi Gigaba
Zimbabweans not guaranteed of ZSP permits, 2,396 application rejected
SOUTH Africa's Home Affairs Minister today said that as at 13 March 2014 his department had adjudicated 82,852 of the Zimbabwe Special Permits (ZSP) permits and positive outcome are not guaranteed as...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 09:13hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Malusi Gigaba to hand over permits to Zimbabweans today
Minister Gigaba will be handing over permits this morning as part of the # ZSP process.Minister Malusi Gigaba will provide an update on the progress of the ZSP including statistical da...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 08:58hrs | | by Ndou Paul
SA to start deporting Zimbabweans
SOUTH AFRICA will soon start deporting Zimbabweans who failed to acquire Zimbabwe Special Permits (ZSP) following the end of the documentation programme at the end of last year, the country's Home Aff...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 08:12hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Plans to negotiate a grace period for prospective ZSP Permit holders
The Zimbabwe Stakeholders Forum is planning to negotiate a grace period for prospective holders of the Zimbabwean Special-dispensation Permit.At the close of the online application process...Published: 21 Jan 2015 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ingcazelo yemigomo lemibandelo yamaphemithi abizwa ngokuthi ngama ZSP
1) iZSP inikeza imvumo umuntu ukuthi asebenze, afunde noma aqhube ibhizinisi lakhe.Lokhu akudingi kuchazwa kakhulu ngoba kusobala ukuthi kut...Published: 16 Jan 2015 at 16:03hrs | | by uVelempini Veap Thuthani Ndlovu
SA yet to process deportation of 40,000 Zimbabweans
SOUTH Africa has not yet started the process of deporting 40,000 Zimbabweans who failed to obtain new permits in that country, Zimbabwe's ambassador to South Africa Isaac Moyo said yesterday.A...Published: 13 Jan 2015 at 07:18hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Frozen Bank accounts for ZSP applicants
Good day everyone, yesterday we had a client who presented a case of a frozen bank account.We emailed Mr G. Muti, the Home Affairs Director who is the ZSP Project Manager, a very helpful perso...Published: 10 Jan 2015 at 10:07hrs | | by Butholezwe Nyathi
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