Programme News
6 May 2009
(News)
Vrese dat verslapte visumvereistes vir Zimbabwiërs die sluise vir duisende meer immigrante sal ooptrek is ongegrond, het kenners gister gesê. Die departement van binnelandse sake se besluit om visums onnodig te maak vir Zimbabwiërs wat Suid-Afrika vir minder as 90 dae besoek, sal eerder help om misdadige bendes vas te vat wat jag maak op desperate Zimbabwiërs wat die grens onwettig probeer...
4 May 2009
(News)
To the untrained eye, the human tide surging through the South African border town of Musina is just that: a mass of people leaving Zimbabwe's collapsed economy to seek job opportunities and a better life.
Sebelo Sibanda, of Lawyers for Human Rights in Musina, is a more acute observer; he sees changes taking place in a migration that is believed to number between one million and more than three...
4 May 2009
(News)
Human Rights Watch on Thursday called for an immediate end to the detainment and deportation of Zimbabweans in South Africa, calling it a "violation of the government's recently announced moratorium".
The United States-based group claims that police in Musina, close to the Zimbabwean border, continued to detain Zimbabwe foreign nationals despite an announcement made earlier this month...
3 May 2009
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MUSINA,, 30April 2009 (IRIN) - The South African border town of Musina is bracing for anincrease in migrants as faith in Zimbabwe's new unity government wanes and thelure of a new permit system specifically tailored for Zimbabweans makes iteasier for them to work and study in South Africa.
Musina, 17km south ofZimbabwe, has been the first port of call for millions of Zimbabweans fleeingan...
29 April 2009
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The Pretoria High Court has ordered the release of about 600 Zimbabweans who were held for longer than 48 hours at the Soutpansberg Military Grounds just outside Musina. The court heard that the police continued to detain the Zimbabweans at the holding facility despite a special dispensation announced by the minister of home affairs which allowed these nationals to remain in South Africa lawfully...
21 April 2009
(Press release)
Despite the announcement by the Department of Home Affairs of a special dispensation for Zimbabwean nationals in South Africa, SAPS officers continue to arrest and detain hundreds of Zimbabweans in the Musina area.
In recognition of the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe, the Department of Home Affairs has finally heeded the call for a special exemption permit for Zimbabwean nationals who often...
31 March 2009
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Ulde v Minister of Home Affairs which was delivered today, 31 March 2009. The SCA unanimously upheld the appeal against the decision of the Johannesburg High Court to dismiss an application by a Pakistani immigrant to declare his detention unlawful.Lawyers for Human Rights, acting as amicus curiae in this...
23 March 2009
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights will approach the High Court in Pretoria tomorrow, Tuesday 24 March 2009, for an urgent order declaring the immigration detention centre located on the military grounds in Musina, unlawful.
Every month, approximately 15 000 Zimbabwean nationals are deported from a detention centre located on a military base outside of the town of Musina close to the Zimbabwean border...
18 March 2009
(Press release)
The Forced Migration Studies Programme (FMSP) at the University of Witwatersrand held a closed door roundtable discussion with the Department of Home Affairs officials on Friday 13 March 2009. The discussion centered around recommendations contained in a newly released FMSP study assessing refugee policy and service delivery at the country's five permanent refugee reception offices. The report,...
5 March 2009
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Judgment was reserved today after the Constitutional Court heard argument on a family of Kenyan origin's challenge to the loss of their permanent citizenship. The court was hearing the case of asking for leave to appeal a Pretoria High Court decision. Wycliffe Simiyu Koyabe and his family
Koyabe arrived in South Africa in 1994 and was granted a work permit, but he and the others were arrested...