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2022 population census kicks off
THE 2022 population and housing census, which is conducted after every 10 years by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat), begins today.Yesterday marches were held in all major citi...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joe Biden's simple message to Africa: Save yourself
I went to university during the days of United States president J F Kennedy, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and the American dreamer, the Reverend Martin Luther King.The last 20 years have been dogged ...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:44hrs | 6 | by Ken Mufuka
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
192 Zimbabweans refused entry into South Africa
MORE than 107 000 people used Sadc's busiest port of entry and exit, Beitbridge Border Post between Sunday and Friday last week, a 1,6 percent increase from last year during the Easter holidays....Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 16:29hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Man caught with fake customs stamps in Beitbridge
The Department of Immigration and other border agencies have arrested a 30-year-old man believed to be part of a syndicate using fake immigration and customs stamps to clear travellers and goods betwe...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 10:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
DRC woman stashes 57g gold in her panties
A DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) female national, who was recently arrested for violating the Immigration Act and later discovered to be hiding 56,85 grammes of gold alloy in her undergarments, wa...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe restricts exports of basic commodities
Authorities at Kariba and Chirundu border posts have reduced the number of days on which Zimbabwean can cross to trade their wares in Zambia using passes. An agreement reached between border a...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 21:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sex vendor brags about bedding 6,000 men
"I used to bed more than 300 men every year with most of my clients being long distance truck drivers who passed through this border post," says 52-year-old Prudence Nyeke (not her real name), Chirund...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 11:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
5-star court treatment for Kasukuwere
Former Zanu-PF national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, received a five-star treatment when he surfaced at the Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday to face charges of illegally skipping the c...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 16:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to be arrested for border jumping like Kasukuwere?
Calls are growing louder for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to be arrested for border jumping in November last year.This follows the arrest of former Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwer...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 13:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Important immigration directive affecting ZSP permit holders and ZEP applicants
The Department of Home Affairs has issued Directive No 16 of 2017 regulating the handling of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit # Project. The online Application process for ZEP renewals closed on the 30th...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:43hrs | | by Munyaradzi Nkomo
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
Investigation into missing Beitbridge border camera begins
Border authorities have opened investigations into the incident where one of the over 36 security cameras at Beitbridge Border Post was stolen during a power blackout recently.The theft ca...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma, help us help you resolve this immigration headache
According to an article on Africa Check's website, the number of Zimbabweans living in South Africa cannot be substantiated. The South African official figures have loads of discrepancies and data...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 16:32hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji
South African General work visa - A Tale of unintended consequences
The preamble of the Immigration Act provides that the Act aims to ensure that visa applications are processed speedily and without consuming excessive administrative capacity. A lot of words can be us...Published: 28 Nov 2015 at 15:48hrs | | by Munyaradzi Nkomo . B.Com Law ; LL.B UWC
9 Zimbabwean prostitutes arrested in Zambia
THE Immigration Department in Zambia has arrested nine Zimbabwean women for unlawful stay. According to Immigrations Department public relations officer Namati Nshinka, the nine, who are s...Published: 11 May 2015 at 10:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Finally! A Person Doing Their Job!
I was sitting inside a bank recently, waiting to speak with a banker. I watched her while she helped two other clients before me. She spoke quietly, and she never smiled. I therefore braced myself fo...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 15:37hrs | | by Unknown
Briton nabbed over fake Zimbabwean marriage certificate
A PROSPECTIVE British investor, Kenneth Vincent Grant Coker, was last week nabbed by immigration officials after he allegedly entered into a fraudulent marriage with a United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean...Published: 13 Oct 2014 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Umoja participants deported from Zimbabwe
IT was a sad sight on Wednesday afternoon at Harare International Airport when the international participants of Umoja Flying Carpet exchange programme were denied entry into the country due to the un...Published: 04 Aug 2014 at 19:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Doom for Zimbabweans in South Africa
ZIMBABWEANS in South Africa will have to return home eventually following fears by the neighbouring country's Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba that their continued stay there will result in u...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 19:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
56 Zimbabwean prostitutes arrested in Zambia
LUSAKA - FIFTY-SIX Zimbabwean women suspected to be engaged in commercial sex work have been arrested by Zambia's Department of Immigration.The women were arrested in Lusaka in an operatio...Published: 11 Mar 2014 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Namibian immigrations officer receives threats for arresting Zimbabweans
Namibian immigration officer Ruben Kandjimi Kapumburu, who arrested two Zimbabweans for alleged illegal street vending and overstaying in the country, has been receiving threatening text messages fr...Published: 19 Jan 2012 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Illegal Zimbabweans in South Africa have until August
South African policemen should know they can't arrest Zimbabweans for not having proper documents to be in SA until the home affairs department lifts the moratorium on deportations on August 1,...Published: 13 Jan 2011 at 17:38hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
Tom Saintfiet's work permit appeal rejected
TOM SAINTFIET√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢S last hopes of securing a work permit to coach the Warriors ended in disappointment when the Department of Immigration rejected the Belgian gaffer√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ...Published: 02 Dec 2010 at 21:33hrs | 11 | by Petros Kausiyo
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