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Zimsec clarifies guidelines for learners from South Africa
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has laid down the technicalities that will be considered for absorbing learners coming from outside the country into the country's education system....Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:00hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
UK's deportations deal with Zimbabwe putting lives at risk
In the four years since she arrived in the UK, 56-year-old Josephine Sipiwe Jenje-Mudimbu's life has shifted from one of hope to one of daily, grinding fear.Josy, as she's better known, is an ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 1429 | by Raoul Walawalker for Open Democracy
Govt anticipating mass deportation of Zimbabweans based in South Africa
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it was anticipating the mass deportation of Zimbabweans based in South Africa after the expiry of their permits.Addressing journalists during a post-Cabinet briefing,...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 1784 | by Staff reporter
Duty-free facility for citizens returning from SA
Thousands of Zimbabweans returning home from South Africa after failing to have their exemption permits upgraded to normal immigrant visas can now bring back all their belongings duty-free, including ...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:01hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe investment, repatriation conference set for Joburg
THE African Development Consortium (ADC) formerly known as the Migrant Workers' Association (MWA-SA) has organised a conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, on investment and repatriation at a time ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi in scathing riposte at claims he's trying to help Zanu-PF win 2023 elections
SOUTH Africa's home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has scornfully dismissed speculation that his decision to extend permits for Zimbabwean immigrants was aimed at helping the ruling Zanu-PF party w...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:18hrs | 3598 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe locks up 550 Malawian migrants
ABOUT 550 Malawian citizens are languishing in Zimbabwean prisons after being arrested in the country en route to or from South Africa without adequate travelling documents, The NewsHawks has establis...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:57hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
UK deports 9 more Zimbabweans
Another batch of nine Zimbabweans was deported from the United Kingdom last Thursday.The deportation occurred barely a year after the arrival of another group of 50 who have since integrated w...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1352 | by Staff reporter
Unskilled Zimbabweans in quandary over South African permits
MULTITUDES of Zimbabweans engaged as domestic workers, or doing other menial jobs, remain in a quandary over their future as immigrants in South Africa after it emerged they were unsure of what exempt...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:58hrs | 2226 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - SA relations turn frosty in the wake of an immigration crisis
POST-2000, millions of Zimbabweans have migrated to the United Kingdom, Australia or the United States, but estimated millions more have trooped to South Africa in search of greener pastures and safet...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
UK sends asylum seekers to Rwanda
The British government was to send a first plane carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda yesterday despite last-gasp legal bids and protests against the controversial policy.A chartered plane was to...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:26hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
'Deport all foreigners en masse' Ramaphosa told
Extremist xenophobic group #PutSouthAfricaFirst has called upon South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to initiate the deportation of undocumented immigrants in the neighboring country. ...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 12:45hrs | 5381 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA Deportation A Step Backwards for Africa Unity!
If the AU has any purposes at all, one of them should be to address and redefine what "foreigner", means.The deportation of any African from another African country, need not be a trauma...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 18:33hrs | 1481 | by Hlatshwayo Dhlamini
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 | 2602 | by Staff reporter
Helen Suzman Foundation fights in Zimbabwe migrants corner
MORE than 200 000 Zimbabwean migrants holding South African special permits called Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP) yesterday received a major boost when the Helen Suzman Foundation moved in to assi...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 18:23hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Looming SA deportations a wake-up call to Zimbabwe
THE decision by South Africa this week to stop extending the Special Zimbabweans Exemption Permits (ZEP) that first came into force in 2017, was inevitable as President Cyril Ramaphosa's government ha...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not among top offending nations in UK
Despite the number of Zimbabweans jailed in the United Kingdom increasing, the country remains not among the top 10 most offending nations. In little over a decade, the number of foreign nationa...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:51hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
7 more UK deportees jets in
SEVEN more Zimbabwean deportees arrived on a chartered plane from the UK at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare, Thursday morning.However, two other who were supposed to ...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 15:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UK deports 50 more Zimbabweans
A SECOND charter flight is scheduled to leave the Britain next Wednesday with 50 more Zimbabweans set for deportation to Harare.They are currently being detained at Brooke House Immigration Re...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:17hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
UK to deport second batch of Zimbabweans month end
A second deportation charter flight to Zimbabwe from the United Kingdom has been confirmed for August 25, according to a key campaigner.Dozens of Zimbabwean nationals are being held in Brook H...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 08:17hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Women abuse UK justice system to settle scores
John Mabhureza of Northampton United Kingdom sits in a corner in prison. He has grown so thin and he is not eating well. He has reduced himself into a silent dying man. Mabhureza's problems star...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:24hrs | 10 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwean deportees get reprieve from UK legislators
Two United Kingdom legislators have weighed in their support expressing displeasure on the manner the recent deportations of Zimbabweans was handled by the United Kingdom government. Legislato...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 08:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has no hand in UK deportations
The MDC Alliance in the UK and a two-man group calling itself the Restoration of Human Rights in Zimbabwe organised a poorly attended demonstration in London at the Zimbabwe embassy. They were...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:02hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Demonstrators at the Zim embassy in the UK are paid mercenaries paid to soil Zimbabwe's image
The MDC Alliance in the UK and a two-man group calling itself the Restoration of Human Rights in Zimbabwe organised a poorly attended demonstration in London at the Zimbabwe High Commission. They were...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 10:43hrs | 31 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Open letter UK PM Boris Johnson, MPs, Councillors, Religious leaders, any other community leaders
I write this with concern about the current deportations of the Zimbabwean immigrants:...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 17:26hrs | 45 | by Chris Goshomi
Letter to Boris Johnson about the deportation of Zimbabwean immigrants
A letter to the Prime Minister (Boris Johnson), MPs, Councillors, Religious leaders, and any other community leaders who may have communities at heart.I wri...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 10:26hrs | 111 | by Chris Goshomi
'More Zimbabweans face deportation from UK'
UNITED KINGDOM-BASED human rights organisation, the Zimbabwe Community Appeal Group (ZCAG), says more Zimbabweans are set to be deported from that country, some of them without criminal history....Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
UK deportations, end of era of lies
THE deportation of the first batch of 14 Zimbabweans from Britain signals a dawn of a new era in the history of relations between Zimbabwe and the former colonial power. The frosty relationship betwee...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Disquiet over deportations - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Even after discounting the more questionable assertions by campaigners, disquieting questions remain about the deportation of 14 Zimbabweans from the UK last Wednesday.The UK Home Secretary Pr...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 22:25hrs | 4 | by ZimVigil
UK Home Minister unapologetic for deporting Zimbabweans
UNITED Kingdom Home Office Secretary Priti Patel says she remains unapologetic for overseeing the deportation of 14 Zimbabwean this week.She made the remarks in response to an enquiry over the...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean criminals in UK must stop blaming government over deportations
Mavis Matapo is 17-year-old Zimbabwean living in the UK. She is so scared to go outside her parents' house alone. She shivers with fear each time she hears a male voice. Her life crumbled into pieces ...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
UK deportees: Rapists, murderers leave trail of broken lives
Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom are divided on the deportations of their counterparts, mainly criminals living in that country who have served more than a year in prison. Many opposition group...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:16hrs | 15 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
14 Zimbabweans deported from UK arrive
Fourteen Zimbabweans who have been released from detention in Britain after serving jail terms for various offences arrived in the country this morning.Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Internat...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC calls for halt to UK deportations
Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance on Thursday urged the United Kingdom to halt the deportation of failed asylum seekers, warning that human rights abuses are "increasing" under President Emmerso...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
UK deportation flight to Zimbabwe takes off just one-third full on Wednesday
A controversial Home Office deportation charter flight to Zimbabwe took off at about 10.30pm on Wednesday evening with only around one-third of the passengers on board that officials had hoped to remo...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
50 Zimbabweans deported from UK
THE British government is deporting around 50 Zimbabwean nationals who have been released from detention after having completed serving jail terms for various offenses.The Foreign Affairs and ...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
Mass UK deportations exposes MDC's double standards
The news which has gripped the Zimbabwean community in the UK about the chartered flights of loads of Zimbabwean criminals has shaken the community with mixed feelings. But the most surprising wailers...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 06:16hrs | 16 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Are these deportations emotional or legal
Mavis Matapo is a seventeen year old Zimbabwean living in the UK. She is so scared to go outside her parents house alone. She shivers with fear each time she hears a male voice her life crumbled into ...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 06:13hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa sweats over SA protests
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has acknowledged that the ongoing violent protests in neighbouring South Africa could trigger regional instability, and called for a peaceful resolution to the impasse....Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
10 more ex-convicts deported from South Africa
South Africa on Monday deported 10 Zimbabweans who completed serving their sentences in correctional facilities around Limpopo province. The group arrived in police vans, along with 60 others ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 14:40hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
220 Zimbabweans deported from South Africa
A total of 220 Zimbabweans were today deported from South Africa via Beitbridge border post as the neighbouring country moves to decongest migrants holding centres and minimise the rate of new Covid19...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 18:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Financial distress to persist for Zimbabwe's urban poor'
USAID food security unit, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), says most urban families in Zimbabwe are expected to remain in financial doldrums due to skyrocketing cost of living....Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Over 200 000 Zimbabwean migrants return after COVID-19 induced job losses
ABOUT 200 000 Zimbabweans have returned home since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic after falling victim to job losses and deportations, particularly from neighbouring South Africa and Botswana....Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 04:59hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe warns of 'no Covid-19 negative certificates' deportations
GOVERNMENT has threatened deportations and compulsory quarantine on both foreigners and returning locals who enter the country without having undergone the mandatory Covid-19 tests confirming they did...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Immigration ready for festive traffic
The Department of Immigration is reviewing its operations to expeditiously clear increased volumes of human and vehicular traffic expected starting this weekend.The organisation's Head of prot...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 17:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Conmen targeting Zimbabwe nationals in South Africa
Zimbabwe's Consulate in South Africa has warned people seeking its services to avoid engaging third parties whom in most cases have turned out to be conmen.The consulate said in a public notic...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mass demonstration for deportation of foreigners in South Africa set for 16 October
A certain section of South Africans under the banner of #PutSouthAfricansFirst will stage a demonstration in Pretoria calling for the immediate deportation of foreigners from the Southern neighbouring...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 15:15hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
5 things to know about the upcoming immigration raids in major U.S. cities
A series of immigration raids is expected to begin as early as Sunday in several major American cities, according to President Donald Trump.It's part of the Trump administration's crackdown on...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:47hrs | 820 | by Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic
Britain to deport a Zimbabwean man blinded by a British prison
Sikhonzile Sibanda a Zimbabwean man who became blind while he was in prison in England is due to be deported from the UK on the fifth of April 2019. Sikhonzile who arrived in the UK IN 1998 was senten...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 08:25hrs | 6462 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe, South Africa increase collaboration on migration
ZIMBABWE and South Africa have increased collaboration on the management of migration and repartition of children across their border through the Cross-border Coordination Committee for Unaccompanied ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1254 | by Staff reporter
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