Immigration

SOUTH AFRICA – Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says bus drivers who allowed scores of minors to travel from Zimbabwe to South Africa unaccompanied and without consent forms from guardians should have been arrested.
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HARARE - The Zimbabwean government on Tuesday denied reports that over 400 children under eight years were intercepted on the South African side of the Beitbridge Border Post aboard 42 buses by authorities from that country. A commissioner…
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A new five-point plan to reduce immigration has been announced by the UK government, which includes banning care workers from bringing over their families and increasing the minimum salary for a skilled worker visa. The home secretary…
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SOUTH AFRICA - Commissioner of the Border Management Authority (BMA) Mike Masiapato has confirmed that it intercepted 443 children, under the age of eight, who were trafficked from Zimbabwe into South Africa.
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A raft of new taxes and increases announced as part of Zimbabwe's 2024 budget by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has been widely condemned. The increase in passport fees to $200 (£160), up from $120, making it the most expensive in the…
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The High Court in Pretoria has refused to hear Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi's application for leave to appeal against a ruling overturning his ‘executive’ decision to terminate the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) programme.
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A court has found that children born in South Africa to foreign national parents do not automatically entitle them to South African citizenship. The court then turned down an application by Zimbabwean parents for their children to be issued…
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Award-winning Nigerian investigative journalist David Hundeyin was detained for over 13 hours at Robert Mugabe International Airport over visa challenges.
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The High Court in South Africa has ruled that the termination of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) is unlawful and unconstitutional, while existing ZEPs were deemed to be valid for the next 12 months.
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The extension of the validity of Zimbabwean exemption permits by a further six months will enable them settled in South Africa to apply for substantive work visas and also help avoid bureaucratic and legal chaos for Pretoria.
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