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South Africans, Zimbabweans pray together after xenophobic attacks
Last month's killing of a South African man in Valencia, Addo, ignited devastating xenophobic revenge attacks that left at least four immigrants dead, dozens injured, and hundreds of families displace...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 09:08hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's refugee population to rise to 18,000 by year-end
Zimbabwe's refugee population is projected to reach 18,000 by December 2025, driven by the country's continued political stability and peaceful environment, government officials have revealed....Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 06:17hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Life of refugees at Zimbabwe's Tongogara Refugee Camp
"Before Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) came into this camp, I was always full of stress and anger," claimed Elina (26), a refugee staying at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge."There was no pl...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government of Zimbabwe helps meet refugees' food needs
HARARE - The Government of Zimbabwe has today contributed 4,400 mt of maize grain, to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to meet the food needs of refugees living at Tongogara Refugee Camp ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 11:20hrs | 10 | by APO/WFP
Zimbabwe is home to over 22 000 refugees
ZIMBABWE is now home to about 22 568 asylum seekers escaping conflicts in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda and Mozambique.Figures released by the Unite...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt sued for detaining minors
CIVIC groups have taken government to court for detaining minors in the same prison cells as their convicted parents.The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and the Justice for Children (JCT) yest...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZHRO Vigil celebrates World Refugee week
The ZHRO Embassy Vigil on the 19th of June 2019 at 429 the strand outside of the Zimababwe embassy started on a rather clammy day. The small talk before the protest started was filled with despa...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 13:06hrs | | by ZHRO
World Refugee speech from the African Diaspora
Refugees are the most vulnerable group of migrants who have no choice but to move or flee. These are people in flight, and who have lost in most cases the protection of their countries. Even in the ho...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 21:27hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
'Zanu-PF plots to register all refugees at Tongogara Refugee Camp'
MDC-T yesterday claimed to have exposed a Zanu-PF sinister plot to register all refugees at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Manicaland as potential voters and manipulate them to vote for the ruling party in...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chimene walks out on Mnangagwa
MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene yesterday walked out on Vice-President Emerson Mnangagwa at a State function in Chipinge, claiming she had been belittled by Public Service ...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa 'secretly deporting Zimbabweans'
Asylum seekers The Citizen spoke to said 'it seems to be up to your luck if you get asked to go to the "deportation room"'.According to two Malawian brothers who have been living in South ...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 07:24hrs | | by The Citizen
Refuges plead for sources of livelihood in camps
About 2 600 refugees at Dukwi Refugee Camp in Botswana have expressed their desire to earn a living through work instead of being reduced to mere charity cases.Speaking at the World Refuge...Published: 28 Jun 2015 at 11:24hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
SA advises Zim permit holders to be patient
South Africa has advised Zimbabwean nationals who were given permits in 2010 under the Dispensation for Zimbabweans programme to 'wait patiently and with no panic' as Pretoria moves to review the proc...Published: 24 Jun 2014 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Mthulisi Mathuthu
7 arrested after WOZA members conduct Die-in protests
MEMBERS numbering 500 of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) at 10 am Tuesday 19 June 2012 conducted 3 protest actions called a Die-in. The activists handed out flyers calling for the release of the draf...Published: 19 Jun 2012 at 16:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
World Refugee Day in South Africa
PRETORIA, South-Africa - The United Nations General Assembly declared 20 June as the World Refugee Day in 2000. Every year, events are held all over the world to commemorate refugees and celeb...Published: 15 Jun 2012 at 04:47hrs | | by APO
Dynamos Pirates match to unite Joburg
A FOOTBALL match between Dynamos and Orlando Pirates is being held to encourage good relations between foreign nationals and South Africans, so helping to counter xenophobia, in the annual Ubuntu Der...Published: 29 Jun 2011 at 08:18hrs | | by Kgopi Mabotja
ANC ward councillor charged with murder of a Zimbabwean national
The ANC ward councillor charged with murder of a Zimbabwean national will appear again in court in August. The councillor was released on bail by the Seshego Magistrate's Court in Polokwane yesterday...Published: 21 Jun 2011 at 05:38hrs | | by .
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