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Supreme Court could reshape the legal status of Zimbabweans in SA
In a landmark ruling that could reshape the legal status of thousands of Zimbabwean nationals in South Africa, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has rejected an appeal by the Minister of Home Affairs ...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:37hrs | 2892 | by Staff reporter
South Africa launches countrywide blitz on illegal immigrants
South Africa has announced a nationwide campaign to flush out illegal immigrants, citing economic pressures likely to be worsened by recent sanctions imposed by Donald Trump's United States government...Published: 27 Feb 2025 at 14:03hrs | 2375 | by Staff reporter
South Africa intensifies crackdown on foreigners
South Africa is ramping up efforts to tackle illegal immigration with a renewed crackdown on undocumented immigrants, implementing a series of measures that include roadblocks, house searches, restaur...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 08:33hrs | 2141 | 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 | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Anxious Zimbabwean migrants, smugglers watch South Africa's election
A Toyota Hilux with South African plates parks on the roadside in Nkwana village in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland South province and honks its horn. An elderly woman makes her way to the car where t...Published: 19 May 2024 at 12:49hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Without Zimbabweans, Musina is going to be a big ghost town
By 7AM, lines of customers snake down the block outside stores on the main commercial strip in Musina, a bustling South African border town where thousands of people arrive daily from neighboring Zimb...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:46hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
17,000 Zimbabweans leave for UK care work
THE number of Zimbabweans leaving for care and support jobs in the United Kingdom jumped 562 percent to more than 17,000 last year but the escape option may close as the Tory administration faces a hu...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:12hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean truckers want to sue Operation Dudula leaders - but can't find them
Legal representatives for the Zimbabwean Truckers Association say they are trying to serve papers on the leaders of the Operation Dudula ('Push away') movement to stop them intimidating and harassing ...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA permit holders mount fresh appeal
LAWYERS representing about 180 000 Zimbabwean special exemption permit (ZEP) holders in South Africa yesterday said they were planning to mount a fresh appeal to protect their clients' rights followin...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants making it big in South Africa
WHEN he made the decision to leave the country and cross the border into South Africa several years ago, his family and his peers tried to dissuade him, telling him he was putting his life in danger u...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Good news to immigrants in UK as May ends
Theresa May's announcement that she will quit as Conservative leader on 7 June paves the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister. But most interestingly her departure brings joy to the immigr...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans in limbo
The much anticipated national and provincial elections in South Africa can put a dent on the prospects of many Zimbabweans residing and anticipating to reside in South Africa.For the incumbent...Published: 09 May 2019 at 17:24hrs | 1 | by Daniel Itai
Chiyangwa delivers US World Cup bid
ZIMBABWE yesterday stuck to its promise and delivered a vote to the United Bid fronted by the United States in its successful battle to win the rights to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup finals. The Unite...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Sports Reporter
Zimbabweans in SA welcome permits deadline extension
ZIMBABWEANS in South Africa have welcomed the further extension of the deadline for submissions of the new Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP), saying many people had failed to apply due to various chal...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to 'introduce strict immigration policy'
South Africa must tighten its immigration policies and strictly protect its borders — even if this is labelled anti-African behaviour, says Home Affairs Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize.The governme...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 16:58hrs | 1 | by M&G
No bailout for Mugabe's government, says UK ambassador
Of late Britain has been accused of mobilising funds to prop-up President Robert Mugabe's regime, at the same time putting its weight behind Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa to succeed the ageing...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 12:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe shall never close
Zimbabwe is open for business 24/7 and shall never shut down. No amount of propaganda, vilification and demonization can change that fact. Not even by the devil himself. We are a discerning lot. We un...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 11:41hrs | 1 | by Sambulo Vuma
Netherlands demands a 'Nexit' vote, Sweden now waits for 'Swexit'
The UK's vote to leave the EU has sparked demands from far-right parties for referendums in other member states.France's National Front leader Marine Le Pen said the French must now also h...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 10:46hrs | 2 | by BBC
The faceted navigation into Germany's multi-culturalism - Part 4.2
The German government was concerned about the message of (ausländerfeindlichkeit) intolerance towards foreigners to the world. The neo-Nazi Germans was sending to the international community a messag...Published: 30 May 2016 at 07:46hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
40,000 including Zimbabweans face deportation from UK
British Members of Parliament have warned that plans to deport skilled migrant workers who earn less than £35 000 per year and originate from non-European Union (EU) countries will create a skills sh...Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA 'anxious' about their future following elections
Zimbabwean citizens in South Africa have said they are anxious about their futures, following the elections in that country this week.South Africans voted in the general elections on Wednesday...Published: 09 May 2014 at 21:10hrs | 1 | by Alex Bell
South Africa's new immigration laws start April 1st
Cape Town - Far reaching changes have been proposed to South Africa's immigration laws and are due to come into effect on April 1, 2014. Jess Green, who runs Immigration South Af...Published: 28 Feb 2014 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by AFP
Why Zimbabweans should follow the American Debt Crisis: Next Time
"Of all the constraints on new government, it is the market that proves most confining-and this in a way is the genius of unfettered capitalism: it is self-enforcing....Published: 17 Oct 2013 at 08:08hrs | | by Tsungai Chipato
Zimbabwe asylum seekers in SA refuse refugee protection
A growing number of Zimbabwean asylum seekers in South Africa are reporting being refused refugee protection, amid fears that the decision to endorse the Zim elections has resulted in a change of immi...Published: 07 Sep 2013 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sadc works on harmonising migration, labour laws
Zimbabwe, together with other Southern African Development Community countries, is working on a framework that seeks to comprehensively address labour migration and migration management in the region...Published: 05 Sep 2013 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
British Immigration Policy highly racist
Theresa May is not professional in her job but desperately seeks to make a name by means of pleasing the mob. Professionals do not format policies to please the mob but rather look at real facts surro...Published: 13 Jul 2013 at 03:50hrs | 1 | by Ryton Dzimiri
South Africa:- A foreign policy quicksand in the heart of Africa
How do you measure South Africa in foreign policy terms? I do not offer here an analysis but a common sense view. And it is commonsensical not because I have no access to South African foreign...Published: 11 Apr 2013 at 12:34hrs | 1 | by Martin Mlevu
Obama grants deportation immunity to young illegal immigrants
US President Barack Obama announced a controversial policy change - seemingly smart election-year politics for a commander in chief who is counting on Latino votes in November - that could affect abo...Published: 16 Jun 2012 at 03:50hrs | 1 | by NYDN
Get legal or Go: Zuma
Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has appealed to thousands of undocumented Zimbabweans who have been denied study, work and business permits, to "go home before they are deported after th...Published: 28 Dec 2010 at 17:31hrs | | by Xolani Mbanjwa
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