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SA govt allowing undocumented aliens' children in schools
The South African government has been commended for resisting calls to remove undocumented migrant children from schools, despite recent pressures from locals and opposition politicians advocating for...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 06:37hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
SA banks freeze Zep holders' accounts
South African banks have frozen the accounts of Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders, claiming it was a system error. However, the sudden account freezes have caused significant distress, with ZE...Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 14:14hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants lose jobs in SA after raid on spaza shops
Zimbabweans working in South Africa's spaza shops are facing hardship following a series of raids targeting foreign-owned tuckshops after allegations of food poisoning incidents, which have left child...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:51hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans hail new SA visa regime
Zimbabweans in South Africa have expressed optimism following recent efforts by the South African Department of Home Affairs to expedite visa adjudication and digitise documentation. These changes are...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 16:56hrs | 84181 | by Staff reporter
SA assures Zimbabwe exemption permit holders amid new visa system
The South African government has sought to reassure holders of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) regarding the newly implemented points-based system for critical skills and general work visas, addressi...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:56hrs | 1406 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe migrants creating jobs, saving lives in SA
For Butholezwe Nyathi, saving lives is more than just a career; it's a mission that transcends borders. At 45 years old, the Matabeleland South native's journey took a dramatic turn in 2003 when he le...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 08:03hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Furore over arrests, deportation of Zimbabweans from South Africa
Migrant rights organizations in South Africa have strongly condemned recent immigration raids that predominantly targeted Zimbabwean nationals. The sweeping operations, conducted across central busine...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:32hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
SA gives Zimbabwean immigrants lifeline
Vusumuzi Dube, a 48-year-old former lecturer from Gwanda North in Matabeleland South, has no regrets about his decision to migrate to South Africa in 2007. Dube, who was previously employed at Joshua ...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 08:13hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Farewell Chairman VK: Reflections of a dear friend
The late Vimbai Kamoyo (VK) was quite a character.They buried him last week in Chiunye village, Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central. Between him and I, the title of "Chairman" took tu...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:54hrs | 55 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Zimbabwe Exemption Permit extension a temporary relief but ....
EMILY Machingauta (44), a Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (Zep) holder, has welcomed the decision by the government of South Africa to grant a two-year extension to Zimbabwean permit holders.The wai...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 06:06hrs | 18 | by Sally Nyakanyanga
Zimbabweans welcome another ZEP permit's life line
ZIMBABWEANS working and living in South Africa on the strength of a special three years' permit have welcomed its extension by the host government for another two years.South Africa's Home Aff...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 18:25hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere fights to remain on ballot
LAWYERS representing exiled independent presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere on Friday said Zanu-PF members seeking to block him from running in the August 23 elections have the option of de-camp...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZEP permits extension delights Zimbabweans in South Africa
ZIMBABWEANS in the diaspora have welcomed the decision by the South African government to extend the validity of Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP) by a further six months, to allow the holders to app...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Scrapping of Zimbabwean Exemption Permits will cause a humanitarian crisis'
With just a few weeks left until the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (Zep) expire, civil rights organisations have requested the department of home affairs to extend the deadline, warning that this was cr...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 16:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa extends validity of non-ZEP permits
SOUTH Africa's Home Affairs Department has extended the renewal of permits that expire at the end of this month to December 31.The extension does not apply to Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) h...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe schools ready to absorb children of ZEP permit holders
MOST schools re-opened smoothly yesterday countrywide with the Government saying it is ready to reintegrate children of Zimbabweans based in South Africa into the country's education system when they ...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 18:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Exiles Forum backtracks on support for 'stupid' rant doctor
The Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF) has changed its tune over supporting Limpopo health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba following her controversial address to a foreign national who underwent surgery at Bela Bela...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni slams 2022 census outcome
FORMER Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni says the exclusion of the Zimbabwe Diaspora community in the 2022 census is akin to the disenfranchisement of people under the colonial Ian Smith reg...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe does not have foreign constituencies'
ZIMBABWE has 210 electoral constituencies and none of them is located outside the country's physical boarders, justice legal and parliamentary affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said.He was ...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 18:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF knives out for Mudenda
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has attracted brickbats from colleagues in the ruling Zanu PF party after he called for the amendment of the Constitution to allow Zimbabweans in the dia...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrant workers seek Ramaphosa intervention
ZIMBABWEAN migrant workers in South African yesterday said Pretoria should put its promise to protect them from xenophobic attacks into action.Zimbabwe Exiles Forum chairperson Gabriel Shumba ...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe envoy engages SA over migrant attacks
Zimbabwe's Ambassador to South Africa, Mr David Hamadziripi yesterday said the embassy has started engaging the host government to improve the safety and security of migrants who are facing attacks by...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rare voting rights victory for Zimbabwe
SIX political activists have been left with an egg on the face after the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) ruled that the Government had not violated the rights of activists who ...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:20hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans fret over SA decision on permits
The decision by South Africa's Cabinet on Wednesday last week to discontinue the issuance of Zimbabwean special dispensation permits has raised anxiety among many locals living in that country who hav...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote remains a pipe dream ahead of 2023 polls
While citizens of some Southern African countries such as South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi enjoy the right to vote in national elections while domiciled in other countries, for millions of Zimbabwe...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 13:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bleak future for 180 000 Zimbabweans in South Africa
THOUSANDS of holders of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) are living in uncertainty because the South African government has not yet indicated whether it will renew their permits. About 180 000 Zimb...Published: 30 May 2021 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA face uncertain future
Thousands of holders of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) are living in uncertainty because the South African government has not yet indicated whether it will renew their permits. About 180,000 Zimb...Published: 27 May 2021 at 22:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans threaten to stop all South African cross-border transport
The Zimbabwe Cross Border Transport Association (ZCBTA) has warned that it will stop all South African cross-border transport if reported attacks by South African nationals foreign truck drivers proce...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Burning, looting & murder in SA xenophobia
ONE person died yesterday and several shops and property belonging to foreigners of African descent including Zimbabweans were burnt and looted in fresh xenophobic attacks in South Africa's Gauteng Pr...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe ouster hatched in SA hotel
The toppling of an autocrat generally makes for enthralling reading. Two Weeks in November obliges in many respects.Keeping readers on tenterhooks and delivering on its promise to reveal, in t...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 21:36hrs | 2 | by David Gorin
How Chiwenga's soldiers took over ZBC studios
The dramatic November 2017 coup that claimed the life of CIO Boss Peter Munetsi and ended 37 years of President Robert Mugabe's iron rule is captured in the Hagiography Two weeks in November by Dougla...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 14:01hrs | 27 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa poisoning; new details emerge
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was not poisoned on August 12, 2017 during a ZANU PF Youth Interface rally, new details have emerged. A high placed source in the dreaded Central Intelligence Orga...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 11:24hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
EXTRACT: The men who helped Chiwenga to execute the coup
Two Weeks in November by Douglas Rodgers is the thrilling story of a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixe...Published: 20 May 2019 at 14:48hrs | 17 | by Douglas Rodgers
CIOs spy on Zimbabweans in South Africa
A network of Central Intelligence Organisation details exist in South Africa to monitor the daily movements of the millions of Zimbabwe who are in the neighbouring country. In his book Two Wee...Published: 20 May 2019 at 09:17hrs | 14 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Strive Masiyiwa speaks out on allegations
Founder of Econet Wireless Strive Masiyiwa has recently been accused by business mogul Mtumwa Mawere and politician Daniel Shumba of stealing Econet Wireless from Daniel Shumba and other shareholders...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 20:23hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Profiles of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court judges
Nine Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges will today preside over a matter which will decide on who will lead Zimbabwe for the next five years. Chief Justice Luke Malaba will lead a cast of eight ju...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fate lies with 9 judges
ZIMBABWE'S estimated 14 million citizens are today holding their collective breaths as the Constitutional Court bench made up of nine men and women sit to make a determination in one of the greatest p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku says Diaspora vote ban 'spot on'
Legal experts have expressed mixed reactions over the Constitutional Court (Con-Court)'s ruling in which it threw out an application filed by those in the Diaspora who had sought to exercise their rig...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
ConCourt bars millions of Zimbabweans from voting
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday effectively barred millions of Zimbabweans based in the diaspora from voting in this year's polls after it dismissed an application for amendment of provi...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zimbabweans in diaspora cannot vote from abroad
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) today ruled that the Zimbabwean diaspora cannot vote from abroad.The Court had reserved judgment in a matter in which three Zimbabweans living in the Diaspo...Published: 30 May 2018 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans returning home in droves?
Formerly exiled Zimbabweans have been returning home in droves since the ousting of former president Robert Mugabe.Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is also considering ways...Published: 02 May 2018 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by ANA
No reprieve for Diasporan voters
The Constitutional Court has reserved judgment on whether or not Zimbabweans living in the Diaspora should be allowed to vote in this year's harmonised elections.Mr Gabriel Shumba (a Zimbabwea...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote challenge judgment reserved
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday reserved judgment in a matter in which three Zimbabweans living in the Diaspora are seeking the amendment of restrictive provisions of the Electoral Act, ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote challenge postponed
ZIMBABWEANS living in the Diaspora, who are keen to participate in this year's electoral process, will have to wait a little longer to hear their fate after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterd...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim diasporans win direct access to Concourt on vote challenge
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday ruled in favour of Zimbabweans living in the Diaspora who are challenging provisions of the Electoral Act, which prevent them from participating in the country's el...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa begins journey to key 2018 election
Zimbabwe's new president is showing signs of charting a path different from that of his ousted mentor, Robert Mugabe, as he tries to win over the country before next year's elections.On Friday...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 15:26hrs | 2 | by AFP
Zimbabweans panic as permit deadline approaches
Following months of uncertainty surrounding their stay in South Africa, thousands of Zimbabweans are now fretting over bank threats to freeze their accounts this month-end when their permits expire....Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 05:22hrs | | by CAJ News
Zimbabwean diaspora in SA loses interest in Zim affairs
Zimbabweans who have fled economic hardship and political problems to fend for their families in South Africa have lost interest in the affairs of their country.They did not care who was sacke...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
University of Limpopo students fully behind the wisdom of Dr Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC Alliance
The student community remains one of our undistinguished pillars of the Movement for Democratic Change. In fact, they are the founding fathers of our movement. The constituency has remained faithful t...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by MDC T South Africa Province
Mugabe condemned after SA extends Zimbabweans' permits
The decision by the South African government to extend the permits of Zimbabweans working, studying and operating businesses in the country has come as a huge relief to thousands of the foreign nation...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 08:53hrs | 3 | by Savious-Parker Kwinika
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