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Mthwakazi doorsteps Ramaphosa over denied health services
Matabeleland-based secessionist political outfit, the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), on Friday petitioned South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling for urgent intervention to stop the barring ...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 08:28hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Drones help intercept over 1,000 undocumented migrants at Beitbridge
Border Management Authority (BMA) Commissioner Dr Michael Masiapato has praised the use of drones in helping intercept more than 1,000 undocumented migrants attempting to enter South Africa illegally ...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:38hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
16 Zimbabweans among dozens arrested in Pretoria major crime crackdown
The City of Tshwane's weekly "Reclaim our City" crime operations have led to the arrest of 61 illegal immigrants in Sunnyside, Pretoria.Sixteen of the apprehended illegal immigrants are from Z...Published: 24 Feb 2025 at 09:04hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
'I can never say abahambe to whites'
South Africa's Sport, arts, and culture minister Gayton McKenzie has received backlash over his recent statement that he can never say "abahambe" (they must go) to white South Africans.This co...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 19:11hrs | 1734 | by Staff reporter
Black South Africans don't have a right to protest
African Transformation Movement (ATM) leader Vuyo Zungula has expressed concern over the dismissal of calls for a national shutdown to protest against President Cyril Ramaphosa's governance and decisi...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 17:00hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
South Africa tightens screws on xenophobic health MEC
The ANC in Limpopo has defended premier Phophi Ramathuba amid a Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) probe into her controversial remarks to a patient from Zimbabwe in Bela Bela Hospital...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 18:28hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
SA immigration officer found with bribe money and 6 passports of foreigners
A 56-year-old woman, employed as an immigration officer at the Beitbridge Port of Entry in Musina, Limpopo, has been arrested for allegedly taking bribes from foreign nationals coming into the country...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:08hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
ANC mayor wants foreign nationals to be recruited as JMPD officers
Newly elected Joburg mayor Dada Morero may have started his tenure on the wrong foot.This was after he suggested that documented foreigners be recruited as Johannesburg Metro Police Department...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 12:30hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
SA's Home Affairs may have to pay Zimbabwean R1 million
The Department of Home Affairs will likely have to pay damages to the tune of R1 million to an illegal immigrant after the Eastern Cape High Court ruled that she was unlawfully detained for a month....Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 08:00hrs | 8842 | by Staff reporter
480 individuals intercepted at SA borders found without the requisite documentation
In light of the debate surrounding South Africa's borders across various platforms, Dr Mike Masiapato, the commissioner of the Border Management Authority (BMA), has presented figures documenting the ...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:17hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Why Dudula hates foreigners
South African vigilante group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members o...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 21:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mass deportation' of illegal immigrants from South Africa opposed
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has launched an urgent application against Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and his department in the High Court to stop the "mass deportation" of illegal im...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 20:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Johannesburg mayor now understands why Mugabe banned NGOs
Despite coming under attack for conducting "illegal" raids in Johannesburg buildings during his two-day stint as acting mayor, Patriotic Alliance secretary Kenny Kunene says he would do it again becau...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean prisoners in SA want to be paroled and repatriated
A campaign has kicked off to repatriate thousands of Zimbabwean prisoners eligible for parole.A letter sent by attorneys representing the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha) ...Published: 23 May 2023 at 21:22hrs | 15 | by Ciara Ryan
Mnangagwa, please deliver a govt that will attract Zimbabweans back home
DEAR President MnangagwaI write to you humbly, as a pan-Africanist, one pregnant with hope that one day Africa will be one. I feel comfortable writing to you because I know that you are a pan-...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Maruping Phepheng
'Zimbabweans not to blame for Limpopo health system problems'
SOUTH Africa's National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) says the problems the Limpopo public health system faces can't be blamed on Zimbabweans seeking treatment in the province....Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC wants spousal and relative's visas done away with
Spousal and relative's visas should be done away with because the system is being "abused by foreign nationals" to settle in SA, the ANC has said in an additional discussion document distributed to de...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 18:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Motsoaledi launches border security guards at Beitbridge
The Home Affairs Minister, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi on Thursday launched the Border Management Authority (BMA) programme at the Beitbridge border post between South Africa and Zimbabwe.Motsoaledi ...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 19:19hrs | 3 | 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
Operation Dudula leader claims Zimbabweans attacked his group in Soweto
THE leader of South Africa's anti-immigration group, Operation Dudula, claims they were attacked on by Zimbabweans in Soweto's Kliptown informal settlements while looking for people linked with the st...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula leader talks tough
Nhlanhla Lux Dlamini, the leader of the extremist xenophobic vigilante group Operation Dududula has called upon his members to adopt a more radical approach in dealing with illegal foreigners in the n...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 13:19hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The political agency of xenophobia, violence in SA
SOUTH Africa is home to millions of immigrants, mainly from Lesotho, Nigeria, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The regional giant has played an immense role for more than a century in attracting labour for it...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Tatenda Mazarura
'Deport all foreigners en masse' Ramaphosa told
Extremist xenophobic group #PutSouthAfricaFirst has called upon South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to initiate the deportation of undocumented immigrants in the neighboring country. ...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 12:45hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Maimane slams Zanu-PF
One SA movement leader Mmusi Maimane has weighed in on the challenges of immigration in SA‚ laying the blame at the government's feet and slamming the Zimbabwean ruling party.Immigration con...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 10 | 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
Ministers of Home Affairs discuss the fate of Zimbabweans in South Africa
The South African Broadcasting Corporation has reported that Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and his Zimbabwean counterpart, Kazembe Kazembe are in a closed meeting at the offices of the Musina...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 13:52hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA Home Affairs, DA denounce violence against foreigners
South Africa's Home Affairs Department and that country's main opposition political party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Friday denounced the violence by some locals targeting foreign nationals in D...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Killing of foreigners in South Africa is an evil act [Xenophobia]
When Mandela became the first black South African President, after a protracted struggle with the Apartheid government, many people thought that a new dawn of peace in Africa has been born. In...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 13:10hrs | | by Njabulo
Killing of foreigners in South Africa is an evil act
When Mandela became the first black South African President, after a protracted struggle with the Apartheid government ,many people thought that a new dawn of peace in Africa has been born...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Njabulo
Deadly xenophobic attacks set for 2 September in South Africa
Foreigners in South Africa must gear up for a fresh wave of xenophobic attacks beginning the on the 2nd of September 2019. In an interview with Studio 7 an unidentified Zulu man said, "We are ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Deadly xenophobic attacks against truck drivers in South Africa
Human Rights Watch has urged the South African government to take urgent measures to protect foreign national truck drivers from violence, intimidation, and harassment in the country's cycle of xenoph...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:03hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
120 illegal foreigners arrested in Hilllbrow on Wednesday
At least 120 illegal immigrants were nabbed at the notorious Hillbrow suburb on Wednesday night during a joint SAPS and JMPD operation targeting condemned buildings. In a statement on Friday J...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 09:36hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa court says illegal foreigners should be deported
A Gauteng court has ruled that over 400 illegal immigrants who were nabbed during the recent raids in Johannesburg Central Business District must be deported to their home countries. South Afr...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 11:11hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: Foreigners demonstrate in South Africa
Some foreigners in South Africa under the banner of The African Civil Revolutionary Movement have staged a demonstration against the South African government for its crackdown on illegal foreign...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 10:49hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Panic as South Africa deports foreigners enmasse
Illegal foreigners living in South Africa are living in fear after hearing reports that Home Affairs officials and police officers are currently conducting a stop and search operation in Johannesburg ...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 15:31hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Project delays costing RG’s Office'
THE Registrar-General (RG)'s Office has been incurring huge costs for unfinished district registry office projects, whose prices have since doubled or trebled due to late implementation.This w...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Killing of foreigners in South Africa is an evil act [Xenophobia]
When Mandela became the first black South African President, after a protracted struggle with the Apartheid government, many people thought that a new dawn of peace in Africa has been born...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 09:37hrs | | by Njabulo
SA ConCourt uphold rights of Lindela detainees to a speedy trial
ZIMBABWEAN immigrants in South Africa have hailed that country's Constitutional Court ruling that foreign nationals that are detained mostly at Lindela repatriation camp, have the right to legal recou...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA authorities begin raids on foreigners
South Africa's Home Affairs department has started raiding companies employing illegal foreigners around Gauteng Province to diffuse xenophobia related violence targeted at mostly Africans in the ...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans raided in South Africa amid xenophobia attacks.
Zimbabweans working in South Africa and other foreign national risk being deported anytime as that country's Home Affairs department has started raiding companies employing illegal foreigners ar...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 04:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
PDZ condemns xenophobic upheavals in South Africa
Xenophobia press statement Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe is a political party and an alternative government recognised under the Zimbabwe electoral laws. The Party is build upon th...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 17:14hrs | | by PDZ
SA takes illegal immigrants war to classrooms
THE REPUBLIC of South Africa has taken its war on illegal immigrants into the classrooms amid indications that officials from the country’s Home Affairs department are visiting schools to flush ...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 12:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabweans in fake South African papers ordeal
IT took less than a working day for two Zimbabwean brothers to secure asylum seeker temporary permits after a Home Affairs official reportedly sold them the sought-after documentation for R1 600 each....Published: 14 Oct 2015 at 13:35hrs | | by IOL news
SA Xenophobia: - Zimbabweans urged to be on high alert
ZIMBABWEANS living in South Africa are urged to be on high alert. A Xenophobic letter is doing rounds with some South African citizens threatening to deal with foreigners in what they call 'rest...Published: 02 Feb 2014 at 12:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in South Africa fear mass deportation
South Africa is reportedly considering embarking on a clean-up operation, targeting illegal immigrants, after the July 31 moratorium extended to Zimbabweans last year expires.A human rights l...Published: 08 Jun 2011 at 04:52hrs | | by Bhebhe Mandla
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