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Zimbabwe rendition saga ends with a suspended sentence 14 years on
Friday saw the end of the controversial Zimbabwe rendition sage, which had dragged on for nearly 14 years.The matter was even heard before the Zondo Commission, and saw former top police offic...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:43hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Botswana forge ahead with eliminating passport requirement
ZIMBABWE and Botswana are forging ahead with eliminating passport requirements for citizens travelling between the two countries with the Government already working on fine-tuning the modalities and o...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 04:59hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - Botswana passport requirements should go, says Masisi
BOTSWANA President Mokgweetsi Masisi has said he sees the removal of passport requirements between Zimbabwe and South Africa in line with the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) guidelines a...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 07:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gayton McKenzie is not from Gweru, Zimbabwe
Gayton McKenzie, a South African politician and a previously convicted bank robber, refutes allegations suggesting he hails from Gweru, Zimbabwe. As the president of the Patriotic Alliance political p...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 07:57hrs | 26 | 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 | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean illegal miners wreak havoc in Botswana, SA
To the residents of Matsiloje in northern Botswana, no foreigner is unwelcome unless they commit a crime.This is due to their own lives being deeply linked with their fellow clan members in Zi...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:24hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabweans hunted like dogs in South Africa
South Africans under Operation Dudula have launched a door-to-door manhunt for illegal Zimbabweans. Video footage that has gone viral on the internet shows Zimbabweans being chased from vendin...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 14:42hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa on drive to reduce influx of illegal Zimbabweans
THE Home Affairs Department has set up a series of roadblocks in an effort to address the challenge of undocumented immigrants near the Beitbridge Border Post.Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motso...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 19:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic campaign launched against Zimbabwean Mayor of Joburg
Some sections of South African Twitter Community have launched a xenophobic social media campaign against the newly elected Mayor of Johannesburg Jolidee Matongo. The campaign is being run und...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 12:00hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa to deploy drones at Beitbridge border to block border jumpers
South African Minister of Defence Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has told the country's Standing Committee on Public Accounts that her ministry will be deploying drones along parts of the Beitbridge border p...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 19:48hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
UK using Zimbabwe govt officials to interrogate failed asylum seekers
The Home Office has been inviting Zimbabwean government representatives to interview asylum seekers who have fled political persecution in the country, in what has been branded a "corrupt" exercise....Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by The Independent
'Don't employ illegal Zimbabweans,' says Mbalula
A SOUTH African cabinet minister has warned local farmers against employing Zimbabwean illegals and then blaming the police when robbed and or killed by the foreigners.South Africa's police Mi...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Calls for illegal Zimbabweans to be included in new permits
The Zimbabwean community in South Africa is calling for the inclusion of undocumented Zimbabweans in South Africa's new permit criteria. The Home Affairs Department has announced the Zimbabwea...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 13:35hrs | 1 | by eNCA
Zimbabwean man who killed Botswana lover
BOTSWANA police have launched a manhunt for a Zimbabwean man who allegedly killed his lover in Tutume village in Francistown following an altercation.According media reports in the neighbo...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 22:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Namibians instigate xenophobic attack on Zimbabweans
Some Namibian artists in the town of Oshakati in the Oshana region are said to have planned to instigate Xenophobic attacks against Zimbabwean street vendors throughout the country.According t...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 11:09hrs | | by Mandlenkosi Chinula
Changing SA permit laws, Zimbabweans urged not to panic
Zimbabweans in South Africa are being urged not to 'panic' over changes to work permit laws set to come into force later this year, with a leading refugee rights group saying it will engage the author...Published: 01 Apr 2014 at 18:23hrs | 5 | by Alex Bell
Namibian authorities launches a crackdown on Zimbabweans
WINDHOEK - Namibian authorities have launched a crackdown on illegal Zimbabweans. Many have fled while others have been arrested and are making their way through the courts.The majority of tho...Published: 09 Mar 2013 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim govt to engage SA on documentation of illegal Zimbabweans
THE Government will next year engage its South African counterpart with a view to conducting another joint documentation exercise for Zimbabweans living illegally in the neighbouring country.C...Published: 22 Dec 2012 at 00:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
13 000 Zimbabweans deported from Botswana
Some 13 199 Zimbabweans were deported from Botswana between January and September this year.During the same period last year 18 387 illegal Zimbabweans were kicked out from the same country....Published: 17 Nov 2012 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Humanitarian groups will assist Zimbabweans expelled from SA
Humanitarian groups have begun implementing contingent plans to assist Zimbabwean migrants, who may be forcibly expelled from South Africa after the end of a 2-year moratorium on deportations of illeg...Published: 10 Oct 2011 at 07:29hrs | | by -
Deportation of illegal Zimbabweans in South Africa to commence immediately
SOUTH AFRICA will, with immediate effect, start deporting illegal Zimbabwean immigrants following the expiry of the July 31 deadline to regularise their stay in that country.This marks t...Published: 04 Oct 2011 at 04:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, a hungry man is a docile man, not an angry man
As their country's economic decline continues to gather speed, Zimbabweans of all walks of life increasingly adopted creative coping mechanisms, captured succinctly in the phrase "make a plan" that is...Published: 19 Sep 2011 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Dell
UK deported Zim woman arrives in Zimbabwe in handcuffs
A 26-YEAR-OLD woman who was deported from Britain arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday in handcuffs after she allegedly assaulted some immigration officials.The woman (name withheld) came through Ken...Published: 08 Sep 2011 at 04:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
No mass deportations for illegal Zimbabweans in South Africa
The adjudication of all applications from Zimbabweans wishing to legalise their stay in South Africa has been finalised, the South African home affairs department said on Monday.Zimbabweans co...Published: 01 Aug 2011 at 19:07hrs | | by Moyo Roy
SA's moratorium on the deportation of illegal Zimbabweans has expired
Thousands of Zimbabweans in South Africa are in the dark about their residency status as the moratorium on the deportation of illegal immigrants expired.Some NGOs claimed that the Department ...Published: 04 Aug 2011 at 08:26hrs | | by .
Registrar-General speaks on South Africa deportations
The Registrar-General, Tobaiwa Mudede said his department had afforded the Zimbabweans in South Africa a chance to regularise their stay, but some now wanting special help did not take up the offer....Published: 20 Jun 2011 at 10:28hrs | | by Moyo Roy
South Africa set to start deporting Zimbabweans, 'after 31st July'
South African Home Affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa confirmed on Wednesday that the deportations of up to a million Zimbabweans who have not regularised their stay in in SA would be carried out af...Published: 16 Jun 2011 at 19:43hrs | 2 | by Ndou Paul
Illegal Zimbabweans in South Africa have until August
South African policemen should know they can't arrest Zimbabweans for not having proper documents to be in SA until the home affairs department lifts the moratorium on deportations on August 1,...Published: 13 Jan 2011 at 17:38hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
Large queues being managed: Home Affairs
Large queues are being managed as the deadline looms for Zimbabweans to apply to make their stay in South Africa legal, the home affairs department said Today (30 Dec 2010)."There are big numb...Published: 30 Dec 2010 at 17:44hrs | | by Byo24
Zimbabweans flock to apply for documents
Johannesburg - Zimbabweans have come out in large numbers to apply for documentation to make their stay in South Africa legal, the Department of Home Affairs said on Wednesday....Published: 29 Dec 2010 at 19:22hrs | | by Sapa
4 days left for Zim immigrants to register
Johannesburg - Zimbabweans living in South Africa illegally have four days left to register for legal documents, the home affairs department said on Monday."The final bells for the registratio...Published: 28 Dec 2010 at 14:52hrs | | by SA Correspondent
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