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Mnangagwa critic seeks SA asylum
Wellington Masiiwa, popularly known by his activist name Nyokayemabhunu, has formally applied for asylum in South Africa as he fights extradition to Zimbabwe, citing fears of political persecution....Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:12hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Second group of white Afrikaners arrive in the US
A SMALL small batch of white Afrikaners quietly arrived in the US on Friday, as part of President Donald Trump’s offer to resettle them amidst false claims of white genocide and persecution in South...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 09:49hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
Trump challenges Ramaphosa to arrest Julius Malema
United States President Donald Trump has called for the arrest of South African political leader Julius Malema over his use of the controversial "Kill the Boer" chant, escalating already strained rela...Published: 21 May 2025 at 20:21hrs | 2389 | by Staff reporter
Johann Rupert's state capture 2.0
In a significant development on the diplomatic front, Johann Rupert, South Africa's wealthiest man, is reportedly in Washington, DC, potentially accompanying President Cyril Ramaphosa for a pivotal me...Published: 21 May 2025 at 08:07hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Trump's Afrikaners refugees will not lose South African citizenship
Trump signed an Executive Order on February 7, 2025, titled "Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa", granting Afrikaners refugee status and facilitating their resettlement in th...Published: 13 Feb 2025 at 10:56hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
Trump pushes to relocate Afrikaners
United States President Donald Trump is reportedly moving ahead with plans to offer asylum or refugee status to South African nationals of Dutch descent, known as Afrikaners. The controversial initiat...Published: 13 Feb 2025 at 09:41hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Afrikaaners seek information on Trump's refugee programme
In the 18 hours after President Donald Trump's order to prioritise white Afrikaner South Africans for the US refugee programme, the South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (SACCUSA) received over...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 11:59hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
'South Africa being unjustly punished by the Trump'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has strongly criticized the United States for imposing sanctions on South Africa, likening the situation to the punitive measures placed on Zimbabwe following its Land Ref...Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 11:27hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe migrants creating jobs, saving lives in SA
For Butholezwe Nyathi, saving lives is more than just a career; it's a mission that transcends borders. At 45 years old, the Matabeleland South native's journey took a dramatic turn in 2003 when he le...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 08:03hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loses cricket talent to England
The ECB are to lobby the government to expedite exciting batting talent Tawanda Muyeye's eligibility for England.Kent opener Muyeye, 22, is currently on a five-year leave to remain period whic...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 17:13hrs | 2 | 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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 'fake abduction' activist says still living in terror
A Zimbabwean human rights activist who alleges she was subjected to harrowing torture after she was abducted by suspected state security services said she still lives in terror des...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 17:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean asylum seeker married at age 9 and 13 earns court reprieve to remain in Ireland
A 29-year-old Zimbabwe woman married first at age nine and again at age 13 has earned a Court of Appeal reprieve in her bid to remain in Ireland.The woman – who is a lesbian – arrived here...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
SA ministry accuses NGOs challenging Zimbabwe permits cancellation of wanting to 'dislodge' ANC government
The Department of Home Affairs has accused the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) and NGOs of trying to "dislodge" the government in response to the notice that the foundation intended to take the departme...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 | 23 | by Staff reporter
Afrikaner nationalists to patrol Musina border in with sniffer dogs
The ultra-right-wing Afrikaner organisation, AfriForum, has announced it has launched a new initiative to patrol with sniffer dogs at the porous South Africa-Zimbabwe border in Limpopo's Musina area....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 16:23hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
SA Minister to resign once all foreign 'rascals' are locked up and keys thrown away
The occasion was his address at an ANC regional conference in the Eastern Cape where the minister pledged that "unlike other coward ANC leaders", his views on the scourge of undocumented foreign natio...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe permit holders bank on SA ConCourt ruling
A SOUTH AFRICAN Constitutional Court ruling late last year could provide some reprieve for Zimbabweans battling possible deportation after the expiry of their special exemption permits last month....Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Botswana court shuts out Zimbabwean refugees
A COURT in Botswana has turned down an application by Zimbabwean refugees seeking to avoid deportation after the neighbouring country cancelled their refugee status.Media reports from that cou...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Shameless, unpatriotic citizens sell out Zimbabwe in UK
AS President Mnangagwa prepares to visit the United Kingdom in a trip which will see him gracing the Kingdom of Scotland, Zimbabweans are in high morale hoping to see their leader as he lifts the nati...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZLHR seeks release of refugees arbitrarily detained in prison
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has asked Chief Immigration Officer Respect Gono to cause the release of some refugees, who were rounded up from Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge by some Zim...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 15:13hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
UK to deport second batch of Zimbabweans month end
A second deportation charter flight to Zimbabwe from the United Kingdom has been confirmed for August 25, according to a key campaigner.Dozens of Zimbabwean nationals are being held in Brook H...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 08:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UK deportees will not be mistreated by Zimbabwe government
The arrival in Harare of a batch of 14 Zimbabweans deported from Britain is in many ways a welcome sign that the British government has developed a far more realistic attitude to Zimbabwe and reckons ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
5 Zimbabweans resist deportation from Botswana
FIVE Zimbabwean nationals based in Botswana are resisting deportation citing fear of political persecution, NewsDay reported.The five Zimbabwean nationals, led by Terrence Charuma, are challen...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean gay denied asylum in SA
A REPORT released recently by several civil society organisations has found evidence that LGBT refugees are being denied asylum in South Africa despite being "eligible for protection under internation...Published: 05 May 2021 at 15:04hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Rwandan refugees in Zimbabwe reject going back home
A GROUP of Rwandan refugees living in Zimbabwe are refusing to be repatriated, five years after losing their refugee status.Some 140 people, who are living in the Tongogara Refugee Camp in eas...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:12hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe witchdoctor's daughter declined refugee status in New Zealand
The daughter of a Zimbabwean witchdoctor has been declined refugee status in New Zealand, despite her fears she'll be forced to take his place in the tribe if she returns home.The woman said i...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Bushiri's case (an analysis)
Prophet Bushiri was right to flee persecution from South Africa. From what I gathered, there is an impending danger to his life and that of his family(, wife and children). lf one is facing such probl...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 08:40hrs | | by Njabulo
Jonathan Moyo hiding in Kenya
Details on the self-exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo continue to emerge and the Harare Post reported that...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:49hrs | 1 | by Dakarai Tembo
Blind Zimbabwean loses SA refugee status
A BLIND Zimbabwean living in South Africa has lost his disability grant after his refugee status was withdrawn. The Department of Home Affairs says he has been visiting Zimbabwe, but the blind 53-year...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:00hrs | 2 | by GroundUp
Canada must not deport Mr Richard Tapambwa (former Zim soldier) and his family
I feel sorry for Mr T and his family. Being a member of the national army of your country does not mean that one is part of the policies of the ruling regime. An army is there to protect and defend it...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 08:30hrs | 7 | by Njabulo
Ex-Zimbabwe army couple refused Canada stay
A husband and wife from Zimbabwe who were found complicit in crimes against humanity for their years working together in the Zimbabwe National Army have lost their legal appeals to avoid deporta...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 19:50hrs | | by nationalpost.com
The Rhodes Trust announces Historic Class of 101 new Rhodes Scholars
The Rhodes Trust today announces a record-breaking class of 101 new Rhodes Scholars. This cohort, who will arrive at Rhodes House, Oxford, in October 2019, features young people from all fields of stu...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Gaddafi son refuses deportation from Zimbabwe to Libya
THE late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's adopted son, Abdallha Moussa Mone Yousuf Mouammare Aboutminiyare Al Gaddafi, who is detained at Harare Remand Prison as an illegal immigrant, was at one time d...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean family in Canada endures strife, separation, death on long way home
THE Murasiranwas' story is about a separated family's quest for a better life, a heart-wrenching but necessary Zimbabwean exodus, agonizing refugee nomadism in North America and the death of a brother...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by his article is taken from Kamloop This Week
Kasukuwere acquitted
A court in Harare has former minister Saviour Kasukuwere who was facing a charge of violating the immigration act after skipping the border running away from military snippers. Kasukuwe was ar...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 09:50hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
113 AK47 shells found at Kasukuwere's house
Inspection in loco is underway at Saviour Kasukuwere's house at Number 4 Deny's Close Glen Lorne Harare.Several holes are visible which Kasukuwere claims were from rounds fired at his home....Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 11:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
I left Zimbabwe to seek refugee in Mozambique, Kasukuwere tells the courts
Former minister in the Government of ex-President Robert Mugabe has told the court that he left Zimbabwe in November last year to seek refuge in Mozambique. Appearing in court, at Rotten Row i...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 20:20hrs | 2 | by Byo24News Reporter
Kasukuwere pleads not guilty
Former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has pleaded not guilty to charges of violating the country's immigration law by unlawfully leaving Zimbabwe using an undesignated port.His lawyer Mr ...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 15:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim children in SA miss exams as Home Affairs sends them from city to city
SOUTH Africa: Three Zimbabwean refugee children‚ aged seven‚ 12 and 14‚ have been out of school for two weeks and missed examinations because they had to travel from Johannesburg to Cape Town to...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by TimesLive.com
How SA Home Affairs has been putting asylum seekers at risk
In July 2012 the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) closed its Refugee Reception Office (RRO) in Cape Town. Despite two court orders to do so and devastating consequences for asylum seekers, it has fail...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 22:09hrs | 2 | by Leigh Hamilton
1893 MHRRM says No to UK's planned removals and deportations of Matebele Genocide victims
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) takes this opportunity to thank individuals and representatives of organizations who graced its 10th February 2018 Matebelel "Gukurahu...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 11:07hrs | | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Co-Secretary for Information and Publicity
UN to assist Zimbabwean family stranded for months at airport in Bangkok
BANGKOK - The United Nations said it is working to assist a Zimbabwean family of eight who have been living in a Bangkok airport for months because they fear persecution in their home country....Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 21:44hrs | 1 | by UPI
Zimbabweans living in SA in Catch-22 situation
With a big basket, Hitele Hlalathi furiously picks grapes in a vast plantation that goes as far as the eye can see at a farm on the outskirts of South Africa's largest city.It is still 6am, bu...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA slammed for giving Zimbabwe migrants preference
THE Migrant Workers' Association-South Africa (MWA-SA) has lashed out at the South African government for only considering Zimbabwean migrants in the special permit dispensation, leaving out undocumen...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
MWA-SA Statement on the extension of ZSPs
The Migrant Workers' Association-SA (MWA-SA) is grateful but is not fully satisfied with the decision by the South African government to limit the extension of permits to the holders of Zimbabwe Speci...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 21:02hrs | 1 | by Butholezwe Nyathi (Acting Chairperson - MWA-SA)
Mozambique war cause influx of war fleeing nationals into Zim
The continuing civil war in the neighbouring Mozambique has seen Zimbabwe receiving a huge influx of Mozambicans entering Zimbabwe fleeing the war to seek refugee in Zimbabwe.This was revealed...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
SA home affairs to increase migrant worker checks
The Department of Home Affairs is set to increase its inspection of the sectors that employ large numbers of migrants, the ...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 08:35hrs | | by Mark Allix
Nick Mangwana's association with Zanu PF contravenes conditions of his continued stay in the UK
A political commentator Zexie Mashonga has said a Zanu PF United Kingdom Based official Nick Mangwana's conditions of his stay in the UK is being breached by his recent association with the murderous ...Published: 29 Dec 2016 at 04:13hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Ugandan Prophet to be deported from Zimbabwe
Shafik Sekandi, a Ugandan national, who was illegally running church business as a prophet at Holy Fire Ministries and a Congolese national, were last Friday punished by the court.Sekandi,...Published: 25 Oct 2016 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
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