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16 March 2011
Lawyers for Human Rights have served letters on the Tshwane Municipality and the South African Police Service (Saps) demanding they come clean on plans for Schubart Park. Mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa told Eyewitness News at the State of the City Address, last week, that they plan on clearing out the inner city slum within the next two weeks.
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15 March 2011
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14 March 2011
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2 March 2011
Business Day I Ernest MabuzaI Residents angry that state has delayed the finalisation of its demarcation case
AN AFFIDAVIT filed by Moutse residents in the Constitutional Court sets out how the state has delayed the finalisation of its demarcation case since 2008. The residents in the once cross- boundary municipality between Mpumalanga and Limpopo will once again — as in the 2009...
1 March 2011
It was a stifling 35 degrees when we arrived in Musina, the kind of dry, dusty heat that makes every movement slow, even when you think you should be in a hurry. But then there is no need to dawdle in a border town.
It was my first time in Musina and Grace's* fourth. The first time she crossed the border was in January 2002. She was 16 years old and her half-sister, Thuli, who had arrived in...
19 January 2011
SW Radio Africa: Zimbabwean government authorities have been meeting with officials in South Africa this week, to try and clarify the ongoing confusion surrounding the issuing of passports for Zim nationals trying to regularise their stay in the country. South African Home Affairs officials are in the process of adjudicating more than 270 000 applications made by Zimbabweans for permits,...
18 January 2011
Police officers 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, .
Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh, head of the refugee and migrant rights programme Lawyers for Human Rights, said on Thursday: “It is a positive move from home affairs to extend the moratorium on deportations....
18 January 2011
FRANNY RABKIN: Until the moratorium is lifted on deportations, police officers are not allowed to arrest illegal Zimbabweans
Lawyers for Human Rights yesterday welcomed the government’s decision not to deport Zimbabweans until August 1 but was concerned about continued arrests and police harassment. The Department of Home Affairs has been saying there would be no deportations...
10 January 2011
South Africa may start deporting more than 1.2 million Zimbabweans in April after they missed a deadline to legalize their residency, Lawyers For Human Rights said. Almost 255,000 Zimbabweans applied to legalize their residency before the Dec. 31 deadline, South Africa's government said while ruling out an extension to the process. A "conservative" estimate by Johannesburg's...
8 January 2011
Let me begin by reiterating government’s commitment to adjudicating applications from Zimbabweans who wish to regularise their stay in South Africa as soon as possible. As at the end of business on Friday 31 December 2010, the closing date on which applications from undocumented Zimbabwean nationals were accepted, 275762 applications were received. To date, a total of 42779...
3 December 2010
Vuvu Vena I Mail & Guardian I In a move to allieviate the panic among those who fear losing everything if they submit their fraudulent South African identity documents, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said Wednesday that Zimbabweans who have been living in the country for years on fake South African IDs -- and have bought property and started businesses -- would be legalised...