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Why is South Africa not renewing 160,000 Zimbabwean work permits?
Thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa face an uncertain future and possible deportation before a June 2023 expiration of their work permits, following an announcement by the home government ...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:24hrs | 2879 | by Staff reporter
Helen Suzman Foundation slams decision to terminate Zimbabwean Exemption Permits
The fate of more than 178,000 Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders and their families is being decided this week in the Pretoria High Court as the 30 June deadline for the expiry of the permit sy...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:24hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
SA gives in on migrants
ZIMBABWE's general elections are looming large on the horizon. Political parties have started rolling down their candidate selection processes. In the mix was South Africa threatening to send back hom...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:35hrs | 696 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
This and that with Mal'phosa: Ngayende ngabude! What?
Malema is very crafty, just like that red fox, neh? He has outsmarted everyone this time around. He can hide behind load shedding, rise in crime, Phalaphalagate etc as reasons he wants Ramaphosa gone....Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:34hrs | 1532 | by Clerk Ndlovu
WATCH: Operation Dudula leader threatens to arrest Julius Malema
Activist and former Operation Dudula movement leader Nhlanhla Lux Dlamini has threatened to "arrest" EFF leader Julius Malema if he "does not work within the boundaries of the law" on March 20. ...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 20:21hrs | 1688 | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula takes to streets over Zimbabwe permit extension
Members of Operation Dudula demonstrated outside the high court in Pretoria on Monday in opposition to the Zimbabwe exemption permit (ZEP) extension.The lobby group wants to join a court appli...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:07hrs | 2720 | 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 | 364 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans targeted by Operation Dudula members
Members of Operation Dudula have been chasing away immigrants from the Jeppe Clinic in central Johannesburg. The provincial department of health says it is not aware of this.On Monday, GroundU...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:45hrs | 4964 | by Johannes Marisa
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 | 3358 | by Ciaran Ryan for Moneyweb SA
Mukanya's open letter to Mnangagwa
DEAR President MnangagwaMy name is Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo the Chimurenga Music King. I am writing to you at this desperate hour to give you my free point of advice about the conditions in Zi...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 1029 | by Doctor Thomas Mapfumo
Operation Dudula targets foreign players in South African premier soccer league
OPERATION Dudula commander, Nhlanhla 'Lux' Dlamini, who for the past year has been in overdrive hunting down undocumented foreigners in continuous episodes of South Africa's xenophobic attacks, has hi...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 3846 | by Staff reporter
Dudula xenophobes chase praying vapositori away in SA; tell them to go back to Zimbabwe
A peaceful church gathering on an open veld attracting vapositori congregants ended in disaster Sunday when AmaDudula anti-immigrant activists disrupted the service.Highlighting the incident o...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:17hrs | 3252 | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula targets foreign national drivers
Operation Dudula in KwaZulu-Natal has repeated calls for transport operators to stop hiring foreign national drivers.This comes after a horrific accident in Pongola, northern KwaZulu-Natal, wh...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 18:46hrs | 1155 | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula challenges ZEP extension
SELF-APPOINTED illegal immigrant watchdog Operation Dudula says it is heading to the apex court to interdict the Home Affairs minister's extension of Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP).Zandile...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:47hrs | 893 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa pleads with SA
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has called on South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party and other political parties in the neighbouring country t...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:47hrs | 3064 | by Staff reporter
Malema slams Dudula operatives
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) president Julius Malema has blasted some of his fellow South Africans engaged in Operation Dudula, telling them they just want to be white people's negroes, a derogator...Published: 06 Sep 2022 at 19:08hrs | 883 | by Staff reporter
CCC urges Zimbabweans in SA to go home and register to vote
Citizens Coalition for Change members in South Africa Alexandra are in a mobilization drive urging people to go home in their numbers and register to vote...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 23:02hrs | 674 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Malema chides black South Africans for fighting Zimbabweans over crumbs
South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has chided his compatriots for fighting Zimbabweans they accuse of stealing their jobs while sparing white business owner...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 19:35hrs | 3106 | by Staff reporter
Limpopo Health MEC berates Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa again
UNAPOLOGETIC Limpopo Member of the Executive Committee (MEC) for Health, Phophi Ramathuba has gone into overdrive, once again berating a Zimbabwean patient saying she was considering billing President...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:52hrs | 2262 | by Staff reporter
SA minister warns dudula on enforcing immigration law
South Africa's health minister has warned that it is not up to ordinary citizens to enforce the country's immigration law.Joe Phaahla was visiting a hospital in Pretoria where protesters from ...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's strategy exposed as he fails to condemn xenophobic Limpopo MEC
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday condemned anti-immigrant protests that have prevented foreigners from accessing a hospital in the capital, fuelling concerns about rising xenophobia....Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:00hrs | 1374 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt in shock migration admission
FOREIGN Affairs minister Fredrick Shava has admitted that Zimbabweans depend on earnings from the diaspora for a living because the local economy is in a crisis.Millions of Zimbabweans have le...Published: 29 Aug 2022 at 06:29hrs | 1753 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe workers suffer in SA
ZIMBABWEANS, together with other foreign nationals, are continuing to bear the brunt of vigilante attacks by South African citizens, who are accusing them of taking their jobs and committing crime....Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 1276 | by Staff reporter
ANC cannot continue treating Zanu-PF with kid gloves
SOUTH Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) should once again confront its sister revolutionary party Zanu-PF over the escalating immigration crisis across the Limpopo, with analysts sayi...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
The day South Africa closes the border
THE past two decades have seen over 1,5 million Zimbabweans migrate to South Africa as economic refugees. Most of the refugees are unskilled and, therefore, directly compete with locals for menial job...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:20hrs | 3017 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
South Africa-based Zimbabweans blast Shava
ZIMBABWEAN immigrants residing in South Africa have blasted Foreign Affairs minister Fredrick Shava for not consulting them before meeting his counterpart Naledi Pandor.Shava met the South Afr...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 4053 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - SA relations turn frosty in the wake of an immigration crisis
POST-2000, millions of Zimbabweans have migrated to the United Kingdom, Australia or the United States, but estimated millions more have trooped to South Africa in search of greener pastures and safet...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
South Africa 'on the precipice of explosive xenophobic violence', UN experts warn
NEW YORK: A group of independent UN human rights experts have condemned reports of escalating violence targeting foreign nationals in South Africa, and called for accountability against rising xenopho...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:17hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
South Africa blow for foreigners, Dudula wins
AS South Africa readies itself to face a legal fight over Zimbabwean Work Permits, the Employment and Labour Minister, Thulas Nxesi is pressing ahead with the National Labour Migration Policy (NLMP) a...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:27hrs | 3358 | by Staff reporter
SA government's decision to end permits for Zimbabweans is shameful
SOUTH AFRICA: When 31 December 2022 arrives, Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, like his peers in Cabinet, will be with their families and will not have to fear being displaced from a country the...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 12:32hrs | 2043 | by News24 editorial
Fears expressed over Zimbabwe Extension Permit cancellation
Zimbabwean expatriates are scrambling to apply for a visa to continue living in South Africa after their Zimbabwe Extension Permits (ZEP) expired in December.If they are unsuccessful, in some ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 09:02hrs | 3008 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Operation Dudula march to invade Park Station
Nhlanhla Lux Mohlauli led extremist xenophobic group Operation Dudula members are marching to Park Station where they are expected to check documents of the foreigners in that particular area. ...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 09:30hrs | 3414 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Operation Dudula repelled by migrants
MIGRANTS based in South Africa drawn from different countries, including Zimbabwe, are reportedly resisting efforts by anti-migrants group Operation Dudula to close Yeoville market, which was founded ...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1882 | by Staff reporter
Dudula member assaulted, nearly burned with tyres in South Africa
Alexandra residents allegedly assaulted and put tyres around a 40-year-old woman who they accused of being part of the Dudula Movement suspected of terrorising residents.The movement is differ...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1686 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobia-hit Zimbabweans saving country's dead economy
Two decades ago, Trynos Mahamba left Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom, but back home, he has changed the lives of his relatives.Since the day after he left, Mahamba (53) has been sending money ...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:12hrs | 1005 | by Staff reporter
South Africa jails illegal Zimbabwean thief for 6 years
Reports coming from South Africa confirm that an undocumented Zimbabwean immigrant Petros Vingiran has been sentenced to six years in prison for stealing railway infrastructure belonging to Transnet. ...Published: 26 May 2022 at 12:55hrs | 2065 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SADC tackles xenophobia in SA
SADC has engaged the South African government to ensure the protection of African citizens domiciled in that country against xenophobic attacks.After paying a courtesy call on President Mnanga...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: 4 Zimbabwean youths killed in South Africa
CCC Bulawayo spokesperson Swithern Chirowodza has reported that four Zimbabwean youths have been killed by South African community members in in Siyaya, a section of Freedom Park, Soweto. ...Published: 01 May 2022 at 07:53hrs | 4758 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe government worried over Operation Dudula
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is concerned about the killings and torturing of Zimbabweans by the vigilante groups in the neighbouring South Africa, Government Spokesperson Ndavaningi Nick...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 13:21hrs | 1789 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ELVIS NYATHI DEATH: Witness fails to identify killers
The only witness in the murder of Elvis Nyathi who was killed by members of the extremist xenophobic vigilante group Operation Dudula has failed to identify any of the suspects during an identificatio...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 07:52hrs | 1151 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans won't flee South Africa to return home
"WHEN you see a rat running into a fire, then you know that what it is running away from is hotter than the fire." - African proverb. Zimbabweans, who are in their millions in South Africa - som...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:41hrs | 1602 | by Staff reporter
Politicians are fuelling hate crimes
ONLY hate and barbarism could have produced the sort of spectacle the world witnessed a few weeks ago when a baying mob of South Africans moved from house to house in Johannesburg's Diepsloot slum to ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 213 | by Addy Kudita
Zimbabwean drivers fear being targeted by a xenophobic groups in SA
"I prayed for them to let me live because some who found themselves in similar circumstances, were reported dead," says Richard Mudhara, a Zimbabwean truck driver working in Johannesburg.He wa...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:35hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
Breakthrough as Elvis Nyathi children get birth certificates
Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has reported that children of the slain Elvis Nyathi have been assisted by government to kick start the process of acquiring birth certificates. In a Fa...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 08:36hrs | 2081 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Top lawyer Sindiso Mazibisa to assist Elvis Nyathi's family set up family Trust
Bulawayo lawyer Sindiso Mazibisa has pledged to assist the family of the slain Elvis Nyathi in creating a family trust that will be able to receive funds from well wishers in a coordinated manner. ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 15:17hrs | 1253 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans blast Motsoaledi over xenophobic comments
ZIMBABWEANS have blasted recent comments by South African Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi, who was quoted saying he would resign after all undocumented foreigners had been locked away.T...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:47hrs | 1977 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in South Africa sending their possessions home
FEARING further xenophobic violence and facing an uncertain future with the scrapping of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP), many Zimbabweans in the Eastern Cape are repatriating their valuables....Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 15:26hrs | 3167 | by Staff reporter
REVEALED: How Ramaphosa created Nhlanhla Lux to help win 2024 elections
Nhlanhla Lux Mohlauli, the xenophobic leader of the extremist vigilante group Operation Dudula is a creation of President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa's faction of the ANC as a joker card that will ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 13:58hrs | 4571 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Operation Dudula leader claims Zimbabweans attacked his group in Soweto
THE leader of South Africa's anti-immigration group, Operation Dudula, claims they were attacked on by Zimbabweans in Soweto's Kliptown informal settlements while looking for people linked with the st...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 19:39hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Malema begs Zimbabweans to forgive his country for Elvis Nyathi murder
FIREBRAND South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has pleaded with Zimbabweans to forgive his nation over the callous murder Elvis Nyathi.Nyathi, who work...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 18:46hrs | 1782 | by Staff reporter
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