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6 October 2010
Johannesburg — THE sun beat down on the thousands of hats, umbrellas, blankets and bare heads in a queue of Zimbabwean migrants in Harrison Street in the Johannesburg city centre yesterday. Many have been waiting here since the night before, sleeping on the street in an attempt to be close to the front of the line when the office doors open so they can submit their applications for...
30 September 2010
Deputy Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba visited the home affairs office in Johannesburg on Wednesday where police had to intervene in scuffles between Zimbabwean nationals earlier this week.Spokesman Bayanda Mzoneli said the minister “just came to make sure the implementation of the amnesty for Zimbabweans with fraudulent documents was going well”.On Tuesday, a woman collapsed when...
30 September 2010
A woman collapsed when Zimbabweans lining up to claim amnesty at the regional Home Affairs office in Johannesburg were sprayed with a substance by a police officer
This happened around 3pm Monday when disorder broke out amongst the several hundred Zimbabweans queuing at the office in Harrison Street in the Johannesburg CBD.
A witness inside the building saw the spraying take place.
"One in...
20 September 2010
Mail & Guardian I Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Sunday appealed to Zimbabweans living in South Africa to take up the government's offer to get their documentation in order. Dlamini-Zuma on Sunday appealed to Zimbabweans living in South Africa to take up the government's offer to get their documentation in order. "The South African government appeals to...
15 September 2010
Johannesburg – The City of Johannesburg will be regulating the provision of shelter to internal and foreign migrants to avoid "unsafe" situations, mayor Amos Masondo said on Tuesday. "The lack of managed shelter in the city has, in the past, led to undesirable situations such as that which existed at the Central Methodist Church in the Johannesburg CBD,"...
14 September 2010
Faced with the August 12 expiry of his Section 22 asylum seekers permit which has to be renewed every three months, Zimbabwean Kholwani Ngwenya, 31, went to the Cape Town Refugee Reception office on August 10. But a month later Ngwenya still hasn’t got to the front of the queue at the Maitland Home Affairs office despite returning by 6am every morning. And he is afraid that when he...
13 September 2010
South Africa will in about two week’s time begin issuing permits to Zimbabwean immigrants living in the country, it was announced on Friday.
Pretoria last week said it would in December resume deporting undocumented Zimbabweans, ending an 18-month moratorium on deportations of illegal immigrants from its struggling northern neighbour.
But Pretoria said Zimbabweans already working, engaged...
10 September 2010
Jason Moyo I Mail and Guardian I Zimbabwe's home affairs department, desperately short of cash and run by two ministers from rival parties, says it has begun the almost impossible task of documenting the millions of Zimbabweans living in South Africa illegally.
South Africa announced last week that it would begin deporting undocumented Zimbabweans in December at the end of a special suspension...
6 September 2010
Sunday Independent I Bianca Capazorio I
A man who says he is an Afghan national has been locked in a room at OR Tambo International Airport for 44 days, unable to see an attorney, or go home.
Lawyers for Human Rights, who are representing Mohamed Khalid, were on Friday granted immediate and ongoing access to their client after an urgent application in the South Gauteng High Court.
Khalid is...
24 August 2010
By Simon Mundy in Kya Sands
Bright Magomora took no chances when a crowd gathered outside his small shop, hammering on the walls with sticks and shouting that he should go home to Zimbabwe.
"I ran away," says Mr Magomora, who had spent five years in the South African shanty town of Kya Sands, north of Johannesburg. "They wanted to beat me up or kill me, saying that we foreigners...