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Zimbabwe, SA approve tourists only border crossing
Zimbabwe and South Africa have jointly approved a seasonal tourism-only border crossing linking Kruger National Park and Gonarezhou National Park via the Pafuri-Sengwe corridor, in a groundbreaking in...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 09:04hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
SA assures Zimbabwe exemption permit holders amid new visa system
The South African government has sought to reassure holders of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) regarding the newly implemented points-based system for critical skills and general work visas, addressi...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:56hrs | 1406 | by Staff reporter
South Africa inspecting restaurants to flush out immigrants
The new South African Minister of Home Affairs, Dr. Leon Schreiber, has announced increased inspections at restaurants, spaza shops, farms, and mines to combat illegal immigration.South Africa...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:33hrs | 2205 | by Staff reporter
South Africa seeks to boost tourism with new safety measures
South Africa is seeking to boost its tourism revival with the introduction of new measures to improve security, including the Tourism Monitor initiative....Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 13:27hrs | 34 | by Staff Reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi admitted to hospital
South African Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has been hospitalised.The ministry said Motsoaledi would undergo a routine medical procedure at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital....Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 07:46hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Helen Suzman Foundation appeal against ZEPs ruling faces misinformation campaign
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF), a human rights organization that successfully challenged the South African government's plan to revoke Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs) by December 2022, has reve...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 16:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe says it was willing to welcome back its citizens from South Africa
The Zimbabwean government said it had taken note of the judgment by the High Court in Pretoria which ruled that the Department of Home Affairs' decision to summarily terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants slam SA
LEGAL counsels representing about 170 000 Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Holders (ZEP) in South Africa yesterday said Pretoria's aborted plan to send them home was illegal.Simba Chitando, who rep...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
SA opposition adds voice to ZEP saga
SOUTH Africa's opposition African People First (APF) party has backed calls to renew Zimbabwe exemption permits in that country who hail from Matabeleland citing historical ties.APF said this ...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA's decision to end permits for Zimbabweans is shameful
WHEN December 31, 2022 arrives, South African 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 th...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Qaanitah Hunter
Come back to Zimbabwe, but we have no jobs, says Mangwana
INFORMATION, Media and Broadcasting Services permanent secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana on Tuesday said Zimbabweans facing hardships in neighbouring South Africa were free to come back home where they wi...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula spreads
Fears abound that more Zimbabweans living in neighbouring South Africa are in danger as Operation Dudula has spread to Durban and other areas.Operation Dudula is a fast-rising anti-African imm...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
More woes for SA-based Zimbabweans
ZIMBABWEAN students in neighbouring South Africa have suffered a major blow after Pretoria withdrew a waiver allowing them to apply for permanent residence permits.Foreign students studying in...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Women seeking health services in SA, a slap on the face for Mnangagwa
CLAIMS by South African Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi that over 70% of women seeking maternity services in Musina, a border town across the Limpopo River, south of Beitbridge, are Zimbabwean,...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Motsoaledi says over 70% women seeking maternity services in Musina are Zimbabweans
SOUTH African Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has claimed that over 70% women seeking maternity services in Musina, in the neighbouring country, are Zimbabweans, a development that exposes the ...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF plots to punish 'anti-Zimbabweans' SA minister
THE ruling Zanu-PF Sandton branch in South Africa has proposed that Zimbabwe crafts a Bill to assist Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders and local truck drivers that face xenophobic violence in th...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 9 | 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 | 8 | by Staff reporter
Confusion engulfs SA Home ministry over Zimbabwe permits
South African Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi blamed officials from his office for the confusion that engulfed the withdrawal of a directive that could have seen special permit holders from Zim...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters hit Zimbabwe Exemption Permit visa seekers
DESPERATE attempts by some Zimbabweans in South Africa to clandestinely acquire special work permits are reportedly backfiring amid reports that many are being conned to believe they will be assisted ...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Relief for SA permit holders
HOLDERS of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) in South Africa will now have their permits extended after the South African government yesterday dumped its earlier plans to desist from renewing the ...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans edgy over delayed SA permits renewal
CLOSE to 198 000 diasporans using Zimbabwean Special Dispensation permits (ZSDP) in South Africa have been unsettled by the host country's delays in renewing their permits.The Zimbabweans unde...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
400 cops, soldiers descend on Beitbridge
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Zimbabwe National Army have deployed more than 400 officers from outside Beitbridge in a major clampdown that has seen hundreds of people arrested and fined in the...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to prosecute traveller using fake COVID-19 certificates
Zimbabwe government spokesman Nick Mangwana, says travellers using fake COVID-19 test certificates will face the full might of the law after several fake certificates were discovered at the Beitbridge...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thousands of Zimbabweans stranded at Beitbridge Border Post
THE situation at Beitbridge Border Post is fast degenerating into a humanitarian crisis, with thousands of South Africa-bound Zimbabweans stuck in the border town since Sunday as the Pretoria governme...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chaos ahead of lockdown
THERE was chaos at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday as thousands of Zimbabweans made last-minute attempts to cross into neighbouring South Africa.In cities and towns, thousands of travellers f...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA grants Zimbabweans with expired permits right to travel home
SOUTH Africa has granted Zimbabweans holding expired permits permission to travel home during the festive season as long as they have proof that they have applied for new permits that will come into e...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo meets SA Home Affair minister
Zimbabwe Communist Party secretary general Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena has said Zimbabwe Home Affairs Minister Ignatias Chombo will be in South Africa today to meet that country's home affair minister....Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
How to solve Matabeleland question?
I have been following the unfolding events in Zimbabwe particularly Matabeleland, and I have since concluded that there is a crisis in the country. Tribalism is real, I am fully convinced that...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 10:28hrs | 1 | by Mbonisi Gumbo MRP
Illegal Zimbabwean miners feared dead in SA shaft explosion
ZIMBABWEANS are feared to be among the people who died in a blast that happened at a disused mine in South Africa where 29 bodies have been retrieved while 11 people were rescued.The accident ...Published: 19 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
No new SA permits for Zimbabweans
THE South African government has dismissed reports claiming that 200 000 Zimbabweans currently on permits issued under the Zimbabwe Special Permits (ZSP) project, were now eligible to apply for the pe...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 04:26hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans respond to SA skirmishes
Zimbabweans have expressed disappointment with South African authorities over recent xenophobic attacks.There were renewed attacks on foreigners in Johannesburg's Rossetenville suburb and west of ...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 15:49hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbos in SA face a bleak future
Zimbabweans living in the neighbouring South Africa face an uncertain future following recent attacks and an announcement that their Special Permits (ZSP) will expire in December.Earlier, the ...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 15:48hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
SA to waiver Zimbabwean Special Permit requirements?
South African Home Affairs ministerial spokesperson Mr Mayihlome Tswete said his government was willing to waiver stringent requirements for Zimbabwe Special Permit holders.Mr Tswete, who ...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 15:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA extends study permits for foreign students
SOUTH Africa has extended by three months study permits for international students, among them Zimbabweans, whose visas were set to expire in December.In a statement, South African Home Af...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students in SA get temporary reprieve
SOUTH Africa has granted international students that include Zimbabweans a temporary reprieve to stay in that country until the end of December following the expiry of their permits.The South ...Published: 16 Nov 2015 at 05:23hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
New SA visa rules force 250k Zimbabweans to decide on returning home
Strict new South African immigration laws have sparked confusion and panic among foreign residents in this "Gateway to Africa" and forced 250,000 Zimbabweans to decide whether to return home.W...Published: 13 Jan 2015 at 09:13hrs | 2 | by Sapa-AFP
South Africa flushes out illegal immigrants
SOUTH AFRICA has issued a deportation warning starting this week on Zimbabweans resident in that country who failed to acquire permits under the 2010 Dispensation for Zimbabwe Project (DZP). ...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 22:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans fail to regularize status in USA, marriages collapse
Hundreds of Zimbabweans failing to regularize their status in America are facing various challenges including the collapse of marriages as their spouses are stuck in Zimbabwe.Dumephi Mema of t...Published: 27 Sep 2014 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Gibbs Dube
Mohadi wants SA to keep 2 million Zimbabwean immigrants
Government has made an impassioned plea to South African authorities to regularise the stay of over two million Zimbabweans illegally living in the neighbouring country by giving them special perm...Published: 14 Aug 2014 at 12:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
D-Day for Zimbabweans in SA
Zimbabweans living in South Africa, who are holders of the specially dispensed work permits, will know their fate today when South African Home Affairs minister, Malusi Gigaba, is expected to announce...Published: 12 Aug 2014 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
A case for Zimbabweans resident in South Africa
In 2009, the South African government issued special permits to Zimbabwe nationals resident in that country.This was part of the contribution that South Africa was making in helping Zimbabwe r...Published: 08 Aug 2014 at 12:11hrs | 1 | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
SA-based Zimbabwean migrants in 'crisis moment'
As South African-based Zimbabweans await Pretoria's decision on their special residence permits, community leaders have said their situation has reached a 'crisis moment' with some of the documents ha...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 21:15hrs | 2 | by Mthulisi Mathuthu
Gigaba to consult SA cabinet on extension of Zim permits
SOUTH AFRICAN Home Affairs minister Malusi Gigaba is expected to further consult Cabinet on the emotive extension of Zimbabwean permits and announce a decision before August 15 amid indications that m...Published: 04 Aug 2014 at 06:29hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Anxiety grips Zimbabweans in SA, Botswana
TREVOR Ndlovu, 28, has been living in neighbouring South Africa for the past seven years. The prospect of returning back home to Zimbabwe is one he struggles with and finds hard to accept. The permit ...Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 11:22hrs | | by Ray Ndlovu
Decision on SA permits expected in August
On Monday South African Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba caused anxiety among immigrants when he said the South African government would not budge on its new immigration laws but would only 'deal'...Published: 15 Jul 2014 at 17:50hrs | | by Mthulisi Mathuthu
SA visa rules hit Zimbabweans hardest
Strict new South African immigration laws have sparked confusion and panic among foreign residents in this "Gateway to Africa" and forced 250 000 Zimbabweans to decide whether to return home.W...Published: 14 Jul 2014 at 09:30hrs | 3 | by Citizen
Mass deportation fears as South Africa gets tough
STRICT new South African immigration laws have sparked confusion and panic among foreign residents in the "Gateway to Africa" and forced 250,000 Zimbabweans to decide whether to return home.Wa...Published: 10 Jul 2014 at 18:36hrs | 3 | by AFP
SA permits: Mohadi in firefighting
HOME Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi reportedly told the Zimbabwe Community in South Africa (ZCSA) that the local economy was too small to absorb close to 250 000 locals who risked being deported and s...Published: 07 Jul 2014 at 15:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA unlikely to troop back home
ZIMBABWEAN nationals based in South Africa are unlikely to troop back home despite moves by Pretoria to institute tougher legislation against illegal immigrants. An estimated two million Zimbabwea...Published: 20 Mar 2014 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Ray Ndlovu
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