The authorities in Zimbabwe are telling scores of Zimbabweans stranded at the Beit Bridge border post to go back home. South African immigration officials are not letting through locals carrying a new type of temporary passport.
This will be a huge disappointment to hundreds of travellers stranded at Beit Bridge, some of them since Tuesday. They were turned back from the South African side of the border by immigration officials.
Zimbabwe’s co-minister of Home Affairs, Kembo Mohadi has told them they have to come home while the Zimbabwean embassy in South Africa tries to sort out the problem. Beit Bridge officials are not accepting Zimbabwe’s new Temporary Travel Documents which were introduced here last week.
However, there are no reports of problems for Zimbabwean travellers at Johannesburg OR Tambo airport, according to Air Zimbabwe. State media in the country said Zambian and Batswana immigration officials are also accepting the new travel documents. http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za
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