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Biker arrested over fake Zimbabwe licence in South Africa
Police in Ekurhuleni have arrested a 45-year-old man who was riding a motorbike, after he initially ignored instructions to stop, and later produced a "fake" Zimbabwean driving licence.Spokesp...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 18:51hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe parliament built on private land
IN January we published a story saying part of the land on which Zimbabwe's new US$140 million Parliament and the planned US$60 billion ultra-modern Cyber City in Mt Hampden on the outskirts of the ca...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 15:06hrs | 1752 | by Staff reporter
US Afghanistan spies enter Zimbabwe to fight for asylum in South Africa
THE group of 22 Afghan nationals, who worked closely with United States military and security agencies after the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on Americ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:47hrs | 1165 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean lecturers told that their services are no longer required in SA
Several Zimbabwean and Lesotho lecturers on exemption permits that allow them to live and work in SA, have been told their services are no longer required by the Department of Higher Education (DHE)....Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 08:08hrs | 3370 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean serial killer slapped with eight life sentences
Zimbabwean national Themba Prince Willard Dube was found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of seven women in Seshego, Lebowakgomo and Mankweng.Dube, who is orIginally from Gwanda Mpaya villa...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:57hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge ready for Zimbabwe Exemption Permit returnees
All officials in Beitbridge are ready to handle an anticipated increased human traffic at the border to facilitate a smooth return of their fellow countrymen at the expiry of the Zimbabwe Exemption Pe...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:40hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
South African based Mozambican Herman Mashaba threatens terror on Zimbabwean officials
SOUTH African opposition party leader Herman Mashaba has fired a salvo again at Zanu-PF saying his party will push for Zimbabwe's ruling party officials to be barred from the neighbouring country if h...Published: 14 Mar 2023 at 19:11hrs | 2484 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-born alleged serial killer says SA cops planted evidence, forced confession
Alleged serial killer Prince Willard Themba Dube told the Limpopo High Court that the contents of his two confession statements were "a mixture of lies and the truth".The statements – one ta...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:54hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter
Regime-change agenda continues to cripple Zimbabwe, says Fikile Mbalula
The migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa in search of a better life is the fault of "regime change agenda" pushed by the US and UK to see Zanu-PF out of power.This is according to ANC secr...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:41hrs | 3622 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man gets 15 years in jail for copper cable theft in SA
A Zimbabwean man was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for theft of copper cables from a farm in Limpopo.The Musina Regional Court convicted and sentenced a Zimbabwean national, Shepard Muno...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:40hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rolls outreach programme to engage South Africa returnees
GOVERNMENT has rolled out the second phase of engaging citizens in South Africa as part of finalising the process of a smooth return of Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders.The Zimbabwe Emb...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:31hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe embassy prepares for return of SA permit holders
THE Government has rolled out the second phase of engaging citizens in South Africa as part of finalising the process of a smooth return of Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders.The Zimbabwe...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:28hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge to enhance Zimbabwe - South Africa one stop border
The modernisation of the Beitbridge Border Post at a cost of US$300 million will pave way for the implementation of a one-stop border between Zimbabwe and South Africa.Government and the Zimbo...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 21:04hrs | 622 | 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 | 2570 | by Staff reporters
WATCH: South Africans will start crossing to Zimbabwe for survival
Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Immigration Federation Luke Dzviti says South Africa maybe going the Zimbabwean way and at this rate, it would be worse than its neighbour.He says it won't be surpr...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 18:37hrs | 5854 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ready to welcome 178 000 locals from South Africa
MORE than 178 000 Zimbabweans are expected back home from South Arica after the expiry of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) in June this year.The imminent return of Zimbabweans, who have be...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:12hrs | 1608 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's skills flight crisis: UK work visas up 1,500%
The number of Zimbabweans granted work visas to work in the UK has gone up by 1,576% since 2019, showing the extent of Zimbabwe's brain drain crisis. The number of Zimbabweans who were granted...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 17:06hrs | 3102 | by Staff reporter
Zesa customers 'fail' to buy tokens
Several households in parts of Harare that were recently connected to the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission Distribution Company's (ZETDC) billing system are failing to buy pre-paid tokens because of ...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:51hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga appeal dismissed, businessman remains in SA jail
SOUTH African-based Zimbabwean businessman Frank Buyanga's appeal against denial of bail on charges of violating South African immigration rules has been dismissed.Buyanga, who has been in jai...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:19hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean driver fined R1 million by South African court
A 28-year-old Zimbabwean man has been fined R1 million by a South African court for smuggling a contraband of cigarettes worth R1,7 million in a commercial truck last year.The accused, Pathisa...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:36hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe harbours wanted Irish Mafia cartel boss
A ZIMBABWEAN businessman, Adam Lincoln Woodington Wood, has allegedly been harbouring and enabling the activities of the founder of an Irish mafia gang, Christopher Vincent Kinahan, who is on the want...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:33hrs | 1684 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe losing doctors, nurses and teachers to British hypocrisy
THE United Kingdom, which is buckling under a deepening shortage of nurses and teachers after exiting the European Union, is raiding, among other countries, its former colony Zimbabwe for key public s...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:28hrs | 205 | by Ashlet Simango
11 Zimbabwean men, 10-car cigarette smuggling convoy intercepted in SA
South African police have intensified their crackdown on the smuggling of cigarettes from Zimbabwe via Beitbridge and illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River, seizing five vehicles and cigaret...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:22hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
SA faces largest exodus of Zimbabweans
A country which was once looked at as a place of refuge and possible safe haven for Zimbabwean nationals, is gearing up for what is expected to be one of the largest exoduses of Zimbabweans this year....Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:42hrs | 17215 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe truck driver arrested in South Africa
A 37-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean truck driver has been arrested in South Africa for illegally transporting chrome worth R650 000 in Limpopo Province.The truck driver, Brighton Mutandani, was arrested ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:01hrs | 1096 | by Staff reporter
'UK-based Zimbabwean caregivers being exploited'
SOME Zimbabwean caregivers in the United Kingdom (UK) are allegedly subjected to, among other ill-treatments, unfair labour practises such as working for long hours on poor wages and sacked from work ...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 1026 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 156 | by Jonathan Moyo
SA Labour Court sets aside dismissal of three Zimbabwe immigrant lecturers
The Labour Court in Gqeberha has granted four lecturers, who are foreign nationals, an interdict to set aside their dismissals by the Port Elizabeth TVET College's Iqhayiya Campus.In the written r...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 18:35hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's underpaid prosecutors can't resist bribes'
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has admitted that State prosecutors are susceptible to bribery because of poor working conditions and low pay.Chief public prosecutor Tawanda Zvekare, ...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe plans to build new city for the rich
A brochure depicts pristine walkways, towering high rises and shining malls - all to be shared by a multiracial coterie of well-heeled residents. Plans also call for a solar plant, an important draw f...Published: 27 Jan 2023 at 15:20hrs | 13182 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean children denied schooling in South Africa
In yet another case seeking to protect the rights of Zimbabweans in South Africa, the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha) is asking the Gauteng High Court to set aside what it says i...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:04hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Pressure to send money home creates many problems in UK
Pretty Matekenya sat with her children in their small apartment in Luton, United Kingdom, just gazing at her payslip.Since she moved to England, she felt pressure from her relatives in Zimbabw...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:20hrs | 1004 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
SA-based Zimbabweans appeal for legal fees
THE Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha) says it has no funds to support its court challenge seeking an urgent order to assert the rights of children with parents that are in South Af...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:43hrs | 3651 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zanu-PF legislator in human trafficking storm
ASPIRING Zanu-PF party Hurungwe constituency legislator Pax Muringazuva was yesterday arraigned before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi to answer to human trafficking charges.He is accused of ...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA in limbo over ZEPs waiver applications
With less than six months before the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs) expire, holders who applied for waivers are waiting with bated breath for feedback from the South African government.Th...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 18:31hrs | 2069 | 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 | 285 | by Staff reporter
More than 20,000 immigrants cross into Zimbabwe from South Africa at the Beitbridge Border Post
Border Management Authority says more than 20 000 immigrants have crossed from South Africa into Zimbabwe at the Beitbridge Border Post in Musina, Limpopo, in the last 24 hours.The port of ent...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:18hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
UK target Zimbabwean teachers
The UK has opened opportunities for teachers from South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria with equivalent qualifications to their British counterparts and at least one year of teaching experience t...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:46hrs | 2667 | by Staff reporter
Human, vehicular traffic peaks at Beitbridge border
Human and vehicular traffic through the revamped Beitbridge Border Post has started peaking as many Zimbabweans and other citizens from neighbouring countries such as Zambia and Malawi, have started t...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:36hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga bail hearing set for tomorrow
The bail hearing for Zimbabwean businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi (43), who was rearrested last week on a separate charge of contravening South Africa's immigration laws, has been set for tomorrow....Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:36hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga bailed but remains in jail on new charges
Frank Buyanga was Friday released from a South African prison where he has been held for over a month but his freedom was immediately curtailed by new charges which were slapped on the property tycoon...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:54hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
Zimborders completes private cars terminal
The third terminal at Beitbridge Border Post, the one for light vehicles and pedestrians, has been completed as the Zimborders Consortium upgrading the post in a private-public-partnership with Govern...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
Russia-Ukraine war exposes Zimbabweans
A new report shows that over 89 000 Zimbabweans have migrated to seek opportunities in other places within and outside the country between August and September this year with food insecurity due ...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1785 | by Staff reporter
Zimra gears for festive season traffic surge
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it is fully geared to render efficient service and handle the anticipated surge in traffic volumes at all ports of entry during the festive season.A...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:34hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
RBZ in gems mop up deal
THE government has structured a deal that will see the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) buying excess diamonds as it moves to shut out unscrupulous dealers that have been dribbling authorities....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:30hrs | 307 | by Staff rteporter
Zimbabweans head to court to stop 'harassment' by SA banks and schools
The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha) heads to court next week seeking an urgent interdict to stop banks and schools in South Africa from harassing Zimbabweans who are under threat...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 3352 | by Ciaran Ryan for Moneyweb SA
Buyanga appeals reinstatement of arrest warrant
The appeal against a decision by a High Court judge not to recuse himself from the application by the National Prosecuting Authority for a review of cancellation of Frank Buyanga Sadiqi's Zimbabwean w...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:56hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
High Court reinstates Buyanga arrest warrant
THE High Court has set aside the cancellation of a warrant of arrest for South Africa-based controversial businessperson Frank Buyanga Sadiqi.This follows an application by the National Prosec...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:59hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe clamps down on illegal recruitment
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the Government is strengthening inter-agency cooperation to deal with unscrupulous recruitment agencies using unethical means to recruit desperate job seekers and ultimate...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
SA High Court delays Zimbabwe exemption permit case to next April
The Helen Suzman Foundation's (HSF) challenge of home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi's decision to terminate the Zimbabwe exemption permit (ZEP), which was set down for Monday, will now be heard in...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
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