Zimbabweans facing an increasingly uncertain future in South Africa

Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa are facing deportation to their crisis-ridden homeland from January if legal challenges fail to halt a government decision to discontinue their residency permits.

The estimated 178,000 Zimbabweans residing in South Africa on this permit, which has been renewed three times, have been urged by the government to seek different categories of visa to remain in the country. Indeed, they will be swelling the ranks of hundreds of thousands of undocumented Zimbabweans already living in South Africa who entered illegally through the porous land border the separates the two nations.

Foundation chief executive Nicole Fritz has said the other forms of residency permits that Zimbabweans are being urged to pursue are just “illusionary options” as most people will not qualify for them. “When it comes to the issue of home affairs, you were saying maybe we are sending Zimbabweans back to starve,” said Zulu, adding “As the ANC, we believe all countries need to take responsibility for their citizens”.

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