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Another Zimbabwean dies after xenophobic attacks in Addo
A 24-year-old Zimbabwean man, Apology Mandiudza, died last Tuesday in hospital, nine days after a brutal mob attack in Valencia, Addo. He was the fourth immigrant to lose his life in a wave of xenopho...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 18:58hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans and Zambians stage counter-protests at Chirundu Border Post
Trade and commercial activity ground to a halt on Monday, 28 April, at the Chirundu Border Post as Zimbabwean and Zambian nationals staged rival protests, escalating tensions at one of Southern Africa...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 08:52hrs | 2671 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces automated e-Gates at Beitbridge Border Post
The Department of Immigration has launched automated gate systems, commonly known as eGates, to facilitate faster and more secure travel for individuals using new biometric passports. This innovation ...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 15:58hrs | 1756 | by Staff reporter
6 granted bail in Zimbabwe passport scandal
Nine of the 16 individuals implicated in a scheme involving the alleged unlawful issuance of Zimbabwean passports and identity documents to four Cameroonian nationals will remain in custody until thei...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 10:58hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Calls for humane and dignified approaches to migration management
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister, Kazembe Kazembe, has called for the adoption of alternative measures that prioritize the dignity and human rights of all individuals, regardless of their m...Published: 16 Dec 2024 at 10:31hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
High Court clips immigration office's powers
The High Court of Zimbabwe has ruled that a section of the Immigration Act, which allowed immigration officers to detain individuals for up to 14 days without a court appearance, is unconstitutional a...Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:42hrs | 1597 | by Staff reporter
Registrar General officials denied bail
Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa on Wednesday denied bail to officials from the Registrar General's Department, who are accused of criminal abuse of office after allegedly facilitating the fraudule...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 13:07hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
SA's Home Affairs may have to pay Zimbabwean R1 million
The Department of Home Affairs will likely have to pay damages to the tune of R1 million to an illegal immigrant after the Eastern Cape High Court ruled that she was unlawfully detained for a month....Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 08:00hrs | 8842 | by Staff reporter
Egyptian businessman nabbed for over staying in Zim
A 31-YEAR-OLD Egyptian national Ragab Mohamed Abdelghafar Mohamed Elkhatib was arraigned before Gweru magistrate after he over stayed in the country....Published: 01 Jun 2024 at 06:41hrs | 26 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Easter traffic drops by 2,5% at Beitbridge
THE volume of travellers who used Beitbridge Border Post during the Easter holidays declined by 2,5 percent this year compared to the same period in 2023.Usually, about 8 000 people use Sadc a...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's digital borders to go online in first quarter
ZIMBABWE will start the full implementation of the digitalised border concept this first quarter with a target of transforming all ports of entry into electronic gates by the end of the year.O...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:31hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Trucks pile up on Zimbabwe side as SA runs out of parking space
Commercial cargo destined for regional and international markets is piling up on the Zimbabwean side at Beitbridge Border Post after the South African side ran out of parking space.Zimbabwe ha...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 12:56hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Travellers' nightmare at Beitbridge border
CONGESTION at Beitbridge Border Post has started building up as travellers, mostly Zimbabweans based in South Africa are now returning home for the Christmas holiday.For the past three days, l...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 06:15hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Ukrainian smuggled into Zimbabwe, Immigration officers in trouble
Four Plumtree immigration officers find themselves embroiled in a scandal as they stand accused of fraudulent and corrupt activities involving the unlawful entry of a Ukrainian national into Zimbabwe,...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 20:27hrs | 15 | by Desmond Nleya /Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean born Chris Maroleng deported for misrepresentation
Zimbabwean immigration officials have deported Good Governance Africa (GGA) CEO Chris Maroleng and three of his colleagues.Maroleng and his colleagues arrived in the country on Tuesday to cond...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 16:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge staff village brings relief to border workers
The construction and completion of 220 houses for Government workers, as part of the US$300 million Beitbridge Border modernisation, has brought relief to most border agencies that had faced accommoda...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police want to beef numbers for polls
THE Home Affairs ministry has approached treasury for funding to oil its operations ahead of the August 23 elections including recruiting more police officers, Parliament heard.Officials in th...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans arrested in operation targeting illegal working in UK's care industry
Six arrests have been made as part of a Home Office investigation into illegal working in the care sector.Home Office Immigration Enforcement teams executed six warrants at properties on Alma ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporters
Home Affairs nails only 500 fake South African passports
The Department of Home Affairs has identified 500 fraudulent passports in the last three financial years - with 185 documents blocked in 2022 alone.Responding to a written parliamentary Q&...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fear grips undocumented foreign workers in South Africa
Zimbabwean domestic migrant worker Precious clocked in late for work, launched into her duties for a white South African family as if nothing happened, yet hours earlier she had been arrested for bein...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Exemption Permits court challenge, Whites are fond of slavery
THE news that the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has taken our government to court to overturn the termination of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs), while infuriating, should not come as a surprise...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 18:52hrs | 12 | by Mogomotsi Mogodiri
Mugabe Airport 'now a human trafficking hub'
"A lot of things happen here at the airport. It all depends on the money on offer," an immigration official at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport said.In October 2021, Roselyn Dun...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
South Africans says all Zimbabweans must leave the country
ANGRY South Africans say they want all Zimbabweans, documented or otherwise, to leave the country as soon as possible or face more xenophobic violence.This follows the callous murder of Zimbab...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe land borders yet to reopen'
GOVERNMENT has not yet put in place the "necessary administrative instruments" for the reopening of land borders almost three weeks after Cabinet gave the greenlight for resumption of normal business ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe E-passport now in use
The new electronic passport (e-passport) is now acceptable as an official document at all ports of entry and travellers can safely use it for their foreign trips, the Immigration Department has said....Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
SA govt tackles violence against Zimbabweans
THE South African government has started tackling attacks on foreigners, including Zimbabweans, by a grouping that launched an anti-foreigner campaign it calls Operation Dudula.The campaign ha...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
9 DRC border jumpers nabbed
Nine Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) nationals who, last week, slipped into the country illegally but were arrested by police, appeared in court last Friday.Chinhoyi magistrate Ms Tamari Ch...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 18:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe says sorry to airport shakedown Kenyan travel blogger
Zimbabwe's home affairs ministry has apologised to a Kenyan tourist who was "hustled" by immigration officers, apparently in an attempt to force her to bribe them.The woman, who uses the socia...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 18:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
Bus operators defiant
SOME bus operators in Bulawayo have resorted to playing cat and mouse with authorities as they remain defiant, smuggling travellers and goods into the country to and from South Africa despite the clos...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deports 4 South Africans for breaking immigration laws
Four South African nationals have been fined and deported by a Masvingo magistrate for entering the country without presenting themselves to immigration officers at Beitbridge Border Post.The ...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreign journalists with fake accreditation deported
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has said it operates in a transparent and accountable manner guided by the law and is calling on both local and foreign Press to respect laws of the country while c...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bogus immigration officers up for extortion
TWO suspected bogus immigration officers have appeared in court on allegations of trying to extort US$4 000 from Zimsend (PVT) LTD, trading as Malaicha. Artwell Kenneth (63), Seremani Machaya ...Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Police step up border anti-smuggling patrols
As legislators call for modern technology, including drones, at border posts to help immigration officers identify wanted criminals and prohibited immigrants trying to enter Zimbabwe, police are stepp...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Houses encroaching into Joshua Nkomo Airport
LAND developers in Bulawayo are reportedly encroaching into the land reserved for expansion of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport land, Southern Eye has learnt.This was revealed in a recent report b...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's porous borders 'now a security threat'
ZIMBABWE's porous borders are posing a serious security risk as they expose the country to a litany of illegal activities, including smuggling and criminal syndicates roaming undetected, a damning rep...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chinese investor up for rape
A HARARE-BASED Chinese investor, who allegedly raped his 17-year-old housemaid for months, promising to take her to China was on Wednesday hauled before magistrate Judith Taruvinga, who granted him $1...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Border officials in huge turnout for Covid-19 vaccination
THERE was a huge turnout of essential service providers at the Beitbridge border post yesterday, mainly those working at the port of entry, to take up the Sinopharm jabs against Covid-19. Immi...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violent Chinese miner deported from Zimbabwe
A CHINESE man, who was recorded while assaulting his employees was last week, was ordered to leave the country by Bulawayo magistrate Mr Stephen Ndhlovu, for unlawfully and intentionally remaining in ...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deepening economic and political crisis pushing Zimbabweans out of the country
The year has started at a very sad note with Zimbabwe going for strict lockdown restrictions deliberately ignoring and not putting into consideration the 80% informally employed people.T...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 20:25hrs | 5 | by Leonard Koni
SA chickens out on closing borders under lockdown Level 3
South Africa is not closing its land borders under new Covid-19 lockdown Level 3, but will deploy more staff to improve the flow of human and vehicular traffic in the first two weeks of January, SA Ho...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa not closing borders under lockdown Level 3
South Africa is not closing its land borders under new Covid-19 lockdown Level 3, but will deploy more staff to improve the flow of human and vehicular traffic in the fist two weeks of January, SA Hom...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 07:46hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe border posts reopen
The formal legal notice was gazetted yesterday reopening Zimbabwe's border posts today to private motorists and pedestrians, so long as those wishing to enter Zimbabwe have a certificate issued in the...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Motorists, pedestrians can cross border tomorrow
PREPARATIONS have been made for private motorists and pedestrians to use safely the land border posts from tomorrow with the deployment of more staff and equipment on course, and strict health safety ...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Borders reopen tomorrow
Preparations have been made for private motorists and pedestrians to safely use the land border posts from tomorrow with the deployment of more staff and equipment and strict health safety measures in...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA Home Affairs, DA denounce violence against foreigners
South Africa's Home Affairs Department and that country's main opposition political party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Friday denounced the violence by some locals targeting foreign nationals in D...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans stranded at Beitbridge
The refusal by Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) staff at Beitbridge to handle bus passengers yesterday saw 366 Zimbabweans returning from South Africa in 12 buses stranded at Beitbridge Border Post,...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 16:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt called to upgrade border post systems
AUTHORITIES at Plumtree Border Post have called for the adoption of innovative border management systems to improve security as the country prepares to re-open its borders.Briefing the Home Af...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 16:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean 'diplomat' jailed 2 years in Botswana
A ZIMBABWEAN man arrested for overstaying in Botswana and lying that he was a Southern African Development Community (Sadc) intelligence official deployed to that country, was last week slapped with a...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Embassy in SA monitors Johannesburg situation
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa is monitoring the situation in Gauteng province mainly Johannesburg where police in that country have been rounding up foreign immigrants in the wake of recent c...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:02hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
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