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Xenophobic SA MEC loses in bid to quash inquiry into her 'killing my health system' rant
Limpopo MEC for Health Dr Pophi Ramathuba has failed in her attempt to put a stop to a Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) inquiry into comments she made to a Zimbabwean patient when sh...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:21hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet approves National Migration Policy
CABINET has approved the National Migration Policy whose thrust will inform the number of Zimbabweans in the diaspora and their contributions to the country through remittances. The policy wil...Published: 31 May 2023 at 07:00hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
I'm grateful to have been born and bred in Rhodesia!
Ever since I started writing current affairs and social justice newspaper articles in 1989, at the age of 16 years, this is probably the most painful, frank and heartfelt piece I have ever authored....Published: 19 May 2023 at 14:04hrs | 1242 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans in SA fear attacks as permits expire
Zimbabweans living and working on the North Coast on the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) fear possible xenophobic attacks or hate crimes against them come the end of June, following the announcement...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:37hrs | 1891 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant immigrants turned away from Joburg clinics
Priscilla Tumira from Zimbabwe thinks she is eight months pregnant, but she has not had any prenatal health care. Without valid documents, Tumira says, staff at Jeppe and Hillbrow Clinics in Johannesb...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:10hrs | 1327 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic xx-Jo'burg mayor says he is not xenophobic
PROMINENT South African opposition leader Herman Mashaba, who was verbally pelted for linking foreigners to criminal activities in South Africa, says he made the remarks in the hope of fixing pro...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:35hrs | 1055 | by Staff reporter
SA High Court bars hospitals from turning away foreigners
The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Friday upheld the rights of all pregnant and lactating women, as well as children under six, to be provided with free health services at public hospitals. It ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:09hrs | 495 | 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
African countries must scrap passports, abolish border restrictions
Colonisation created a divided Africa.Even when King Leopold II ravaged the present day Democratic Republic of Congo, he didn't envisage that Africa would have independent states one day....Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:50hrs | 352 | by Evans Mathanda
Zanu-PF intensifies voter registration
Zanu-PF has intensified the voter mobilisation drive, with Mashonaland West Province's Chegutu district yesterday getting a major boost after taking delivery of an additional 51 bicycles for use....Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:16hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
SA's health council slams xenophobic Limpopo health MEC for berating Zimbabwean patient
Limpopo health MEC Phophi Ramathuba has been reprimanded by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) for shouting at a Zimbabwean patient in a Limpopo provincial hospital in August....Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:42hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 'Stop chasing people from South Africa' Jeys Marabini says
Award winning musician Jeys Marabini has used an impromptu rendition with Ivory Sikepe to plead with Africans to unite and realise that they are a beautiful people with a wealth of inheritance. ...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 11:41hrs | 2184 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 860 | 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
US sanctions the reason Zimbabweans are flooding SA, says Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for an end to sanctions against Zimbabwe, saying that is one the reasons those citizens flood into South Africa.South Africa has seen an influx of Zimbabwe...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:54hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe border jumpers feared dead in road accident in Botswana
AN unconfirmed number of Zimbabwean nationals, including children, is feared dead after a Nissan Elgrand transporting illegal immigrants overturned near Franscistown Saturday.According to repo...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 1521 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans feared dead in SA mine tragedy
SOME Zimbabweans are believed to be amongst 19 dead suspected illegal miners whose bodies were retrieved from near an active mine in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, South Africa.Zimbabwe's ...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:57hrs | 911 | by Staff reporter
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
Top US official challenged on Zimbabwe sanctions
A SENIOR United States official recently struggled to provide a comprehensive explanation on factors that influenced their decisions to impose sanctions on poor countries whilst turning a blind eye on...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:22hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
This and that with Mal'phosa: No, South Africa can never be another Zimbabwe
Finally, load 'shredding' is over, for now. Well, my workmate calls it so. She is a modern day Malaprop and does not care whether words she uses are appropriate or not. 'This morning poli...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 13:46hrs | 1408 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Xenophobic Gauteng Premier resigns
After 8 years in the top spot of South Africa's economic hub, Makhura will step down on Thursday.Makhura who made statements that encouraged xenophobic attacks once blamed foreign nationals fo...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:23hrs | 4436 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe diasporans are welcome back
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his government would never abandon its citizens residing outside the country, saying they were welcome back home.Addressing the Zanu-PF politburo at...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, you hold on power through brutality
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, Zimbabwe has long been in socio-economic dire straits. Her citizenry are rendered economic wanderers. Even children of liberation veterans ar...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 792 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Fear grips undocumented foreign workers in South Africa
Zimbabwean domestic migrant worker Precious clocked in late for work, launched into her duties for a white South African family as if nothing happened, yet hours earlier she had been arrested for bein...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:38hrs | 1629 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe locks up 550 Malawian migrants
ABOUT 550 Malawian citizens are languishing in Zimbabwean prisons after being arrested in the country en route to or from South Africa without adequate travelling documents, The NewsHawks has establis...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:57hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
'I earned more as a farmworker in South Africa than as a maths teacher in Zimbabwe'
A teacher living in Zimbabwe says he made more money working as a citrus farm labourer in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape than he does teaching mathematics in his hometown.Nhamburo (not his real name) ...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 08:35hrs | 2197 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to President Mnangagwa
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,We appeal to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to officially either serve you summons or issue a warrant of arrest or proceed to apprehend, interrogate a...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:44hrs | 420 | by Zvaringeni Samuel Chasi, Patriotic Party Zimbabwe president
Aggression won't build Brand Zimbabwe
FOR the umpteenth time, Zimbabwe this week launched Brand Zimbabwe, bringing into sharp focus why the country is endlessly rebranding, having last done so only four years back when it unveiled the "Zi...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:43hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Unskilled Zimbabweans in quandary over South African permits
MULTITUDES of Zimbabweans engaged as domestic workers, or doing other menial jobs, remain in a quandary over their future as immigrants in South Africa after it emerged they were unsure of what exempt...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:58hrs | 2225 | by Staff reporter
'Sadc must intervene on Zimbabwe crisis'
ANOTHER video of South African Member of the Executive Council of Health in Limpopo province, Phophi Ramathuba, has gone viral on social media with the official insisting that President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:50hrs | 1007 | 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
Zimbabwean Exiles Forum backtracks on support for 'stupid' rant doctor
The Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF) has changed its tune over supporting Limpopo health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba following her controversial address to a foreign national who underwent surgery at Bela Bela...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 2526 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe embassy expresses shock over Limpopo Health MEC's xenophobic attacks on patient
THE Zimbabwean consulate in South Africa has finally broken its silence on the immigration debacle and xenophobic attacks by Limpopo Health Member of Executive Committee (MEC), Phophi Ramathuba, again...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 2049 | 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
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
Zimbabwe - SA relations: Mnangagwa's cabinet launches propaganda war
THE Zimbabwean government has largely been quite over boiling anger in South Africa on the influx of foreigners who are desperately seeking jobs and free medical treatment, but are enduring xenophobic...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 20:49hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Pan-African Parliament criticise Limpopo MEC Phophi
LEGISLATORS from the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) and the South African Medical Association (SAMA) have joined other organisations in criticising Limpopo province Member of the Executive Council (MEC)...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 05:59hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
South Africa plans to end most special permits for foreigners
South Africa plans to end most special permits for foreigners as it revamps its immigration policies to manage an influx of economic migrants.The government announced that a special dispensati...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 20:48hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Arundel rescues Zimbabwean patient humiliated in SA hospital
Arundel Hospital in the capital has offered to cover the medical bills for the Zimbabwean woman who was recorded while being harassed by a senior health official at Bela Bela Hospital in Limpopo provi...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 4396 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime has turned Zimbabweans into the laughing stock of the world!
I remember those yesteryears of international travel in my childhood, as if they were only a few days ago!How, when I was chosen to represent Zimbabwe and the southern African region at a scou...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 20:24hrs | 1170 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Backlash as SA's Phophi belittles Zimbabwean patient
SOUTH Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has lodged an official complaint against medical doctor and Limpopo province Member of Executive Committee (MEC), Phophi Ramathuba for "dehuma...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Limpopo Health MEC says Mnangagwa should save Zimbabweans
LIMPOPO provincial health minister, Phophi Ramathuba, has said there was nothing wrong with her expressing frustrations to a Zimbabwean woman who was scheduled for a surgery at a hospital in Bela Bela...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 21:23hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
SA minister puts medical profession to shame
A VIDEO trended Tuesday of a South African provincial minister raging at the extra burden Zimbabwean migrants – many of them illegal – are imposing on already overstretched healthcare services in ...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:53hrs | 6335 | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: Int'yenzayo, Aaron Motsoaledi siyayizonda!
There was a demonstration yesterday in Hilbrow - Zimbabweans of all tribes, colour and creed coming together to plead with the Home office to please extend their permits. Well, you might not have hear...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 15:04hrs | 1385 | by Clerk Ndlovu
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
Zimbabweans living in South Africa fear for their safety
ZIMBABWEANS living in South Africa (SA) have expressed concern over their safety after a top African National Congress (ANC) official said Pretoria could not guarantee the safety of foreign nationals ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's hatred of opposition now xenophobic
ZIMBABWE has a very serious problem that threatens to keep dividing us as a nation.That problem is intolerance by the ruling Zanu-PF party and a sizeable number of its supporters who rabidly a...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
EFF to meet new PAP president Charumbira
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe is next week expected to meet and deliver its solidarity message to newly elected Pan-African Parliament, President Fortune Charumbira.The EEF delegati...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:29hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa ally says Zimbabweans should be in their home
ZIMBABWEANS should be in their home country and all nations "need to take responsibility of their citizens" a South African cabinet minister and senior ruling African National Congress (ANC) party off...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:20hrs | 8516 | by Staff reporter
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