SA government scraps Zimbabwean special permits

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The decision by the cabinet could see scores of Zimbabweans living and working in South Africa having no option but to return home should they not secure work permits and other relevant documents.

The South African government has decided to do away with the specialThis was announced by minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele during a post cabinet briefing on Thursday morning.

Gungubele said that following its deliberations, the cabinet decided to no longer issue extensions to the Zimbabwean special dispensations. “During this period, the holders of this permit should apply for other permits appropriate to their particular status or situation.

 

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Zimbabweans, go back home and conduct your criminal activities in Zimbabwe, not in South Africa.

But it will be unfair to put the focus on Zimbabweans only, I think SA law enforcement if failing us this foreign nationals whether Nigeria or Zimbabwe or Lesotho most of them are here because they paid for their stay, and time and again keep on paying this officials in townships

The fact is Zimbabweans are here not because there is no food in their country, but because they need greener pastures. Now they are a burden for our system. If they go home Zimbabwe will be a far better country than it is now. That country needs them badly.

2024 elections are coming, if the ANC does not shape up and secure our porous borders and halt the influx of aliens into our country🇿🇦, they will be voted out, they will be out of power.

🇿🇼Go home! We want our country 🇿🇦 back, we want our hijacked towns and cities back, we want hijacked buildings back etc etc.

I still don't understand why they must be granted work permits in SA while SA has the highest number of unemployment. This government hates it's own people

Time to go till the land - 💅🇿🇼

Hallelujah 🙌🏾🙌🏾

This looks like a PR excersise and preparation by ANC to use this as a campaign tool for 2024... remember Zim Elections are in 2023, so that 12 months extension is intentional. Vukani....

Yes please geta hike we shall all breath.

At last👋👋👏👏

At long last

Its time too watch home affairs carefully ke manje asifuni abadayisi .

They have turned legal zimbos to illegals🤫, they are not going anywhere

this is hilarious because the illegal Zimbabweans yall have a problem with are not going to be affected at all 🤭 so what problem does this decision solve?

MABAHAMBE NGEKE

This is litteraly a one year extension of the current permit. Total bullshit!

I am sure they will get free farms since the White Zimbabweans were kicked out of their own!

Zimbabwe needs them anyways. They need to build up the destruction Mugabe left behind. Now I am not saying the crocodile is better!

Well the other option is to just stay. If they boot you out just walk back across the border 😎

Asbonge, undocumented mozambicans next,let's fix this country. Let's create a country that we would love our children and our future generations to live in even when we are long gone

I smell xenophobia here

They need to rebuild their own country!!

Thank you👏 to the PutSouthAfricansFirst movement; Herma Mashaba and Gayton McKenzie for their voices and bravery about their intentions to fight to put South Africans first. The ANC is starting to see the light, shem. They are starting to show that they are listening to SAns.

Let them go. 70% of South African youth is unemployed. They are ready to take up those jobs!!!!

Just scores? There's millions of them they all need to go back to their country

How sad, so many lives upended over and over with no real gain for anyone. This will not create or ‘give back’ jobs or prosperity.

Another lucrative business loading for home affairs officials

Pakistanis Bangfuckendesh Somalis Chinese especially Nigerians

Good news

As if they worry about legal documents. It's a free for all at the border mos🙄🙄

Let them go back home. There is no war in Zimbabwe

No, they won't go back home. Probably more than 90% of Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals are here without any proper documentation.

How could this be happening! De Kock took a knee. Ra Ra BLM!

Door to door check and start at Diepsloot

The government should have started with nationals that are from a country that is known, all over the world, to be a major exporter of fraudsters, forgery artists, drug peddlers, children and women traffickers, scam artists and bearers of bogus qualifications.

MYANC they are starting to listen now PutSouthAfricaFirst

The best news ever mara even NIGERIANS must go

Azikhale maaaahn!!!!

But no Zimbabweans, Nigerians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshi, Chinese and Europeans that are here illegal, they must all go

Good they must return home

They have land but now they are here ......Haaiiiiiiikhona maaannnn

Let them go home maybe the high unemployment rate will decrease for our South African citizens.

Danko

Legislation is not a problem but enforcement. Our government is too relaxed and corrupt. There's nothing stopping current illegal immigrants from doing as they please in our country 💁🏾‍♂️🙄

No grace period they must not be allowed to return in January when the go home for the holidays.

So?

What about those who dont even have permits

We got South Africans to worry about.

We know they need to be here for their own survival! Please let me intervene with my system to end the pain. They rely on us to make ends meet.👉👈🤞zimbabwe poverty economy

That's none of your business.

Ogle_me They need to find creative ways to go home..

What Israel is doing to Palestine is parallel to what SA is doing Zim. Kodwa ke asikho lapho

Bahamba nini elishekile lizo bethwa sothi mazihambe ezi kaka apha

Aykhale!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nomeza bethu Singa a fihli sababetha bahamba

Sophie_Mokoena What SA don't realize is that many white people, and educated black Zimbos will flee this country due to deteriorating economic and socioeconomic climate, & taking away badly needed scarce skills. IN FACT THEY ARE ALREADY DOING THAT.That's very bad, very ominous Sophie_Mokoena

Mana hambe Nama Somalia yonke enga belongi e south Africa hak frestat

ANC trying to reform

Sophie_Mokoena Many options. 1. go to another country, other than zim 2. apply for a different permit 3. continue living illegally (which I do not recommend but will probably happen), and eventually die here, naturally or violently NOT all zimbos are going back. It's not as simple as that. CNN

Your not manageable..a le laolege

AfricaFactsZone IsimaOdeh

Hardworking,highly educated Zimbabweans will go back home and rebuild Zimbabwe

They must return home with immediately effect work tiredness to grow their economy.

Lol they have not been going home anyway.

'We going nowhere' where are those arrogant Zimbabweans today

Good news, we are tired of this people

The government has to control the blue collar sector, so that, there is n't a plethora of illegal immigrants. It causes social implosion. The trucking business has to be regulated, you cannot have so many foreign drivers over locals unless you are courting instability as it is!

It’s time for them to go home! Get going!

Zimbabweans are our brothers and sisters and we dearly love them as fellow Africans but I'm afraid things have fallen apart rather badly for us SAns, that we have to put many things, in order, that the government neglected in the past.Many people voted with their feet.

Thankz when will we start chasing them mean to beat them?

i feel for those who are here to make a honest living given their country's economy, it's the CRIMINALS who murder, highjack, rob, housebreak & rape that we want gone as in yesterday😡

Why so much focus on Zimbabweans? What about the ones from Swaziland, Botswana, Lesotho?

The soft or so called 'diplomatic' approach towards the Zimbabwean government remains the biggest elephant in the room. Scrapping permits is simply putting bandaid on a septic wound.

But Charleston can stay

That's what I wanna see. They must GO HOME

Good, let's do Nigerians next

The fight is not over, we want them to be out ,that 1 years is way too long...

Bye bye makwerekwere we had enough no more amakhwapha anukayo in our country ✊🏿

let them go, we have scores of our youth not working as well.

When we have no more zimbos

Ruraltarain until victory is realized!✊🏽

It’s not only those with “papers” that are here. We have millions who are here illegally and continue to work illegally. Zim Exemption in its current form is illegal. You cannot therefore extend an illegal exemption. But with the ANC & ZANU PF anything is possible.

South Africans come first always do not forget that. This way our very own will get of the poverty line, work and joblessness will be way less.

Finally

Best decision ever! It's time to go home & reap the benefits. NoToZimWorkPermits

Mission accomplished

Mugabe never allows the Nigerians to come and stay in Zimbabwe. Now the Zimbabweans force to stay in South Africa. People should go to their various countries with peace and they must work to make the conducive conditions in their countries.

Abahambe.

They are depriving legal South African citizens of an income, whilst they are illegally in a country earning an illegal income nevermind not even paying tax etc! 🤬

Nama shayina niwayekelani awahambe

Mabahambe we're sick and tired of them. PutSouthAfricansFirst

Finally!!!

At long last the GovernmentZA has put South Africans first. It is commendable but a decade too late since in that time the Pakis, Bangladeshis, Ethiopians, Nigerians, Armenians, & Serbians in cahoots with corrupt MYANC leaders have turned this country into a cesspool.

Let them go home, their family misses them.

All illegal foreigners must go

Too long too slow....

Mavuthel71 Vele we want them to leave our country peacefully and let them go and fix their problems back home.

sepedirock Why Somalians and Nigerians not on list?

In your dreams.

Ababuyele muva

sepedirock A racist government with Xenophobic policies!!

That will be the right thing to do.They must go back and build their country.They will thank us later.

Afrika_Pele Finally

They might as well as kept quiet. In essence, the very same immigrants will be absorbed under other permit categories

Vele re lapile ke Ma Zim a tletseng mo

The DIRCO_ZA & HomeAffairsSA must immediately implement visa requirements on the following countries: 1 Somalia 2 Ethiopia 3 Zimbabwe 4 Mozambique 5 Nigeria 6 Malawi 7 Congo 8 Ghana 9 Build wall between Zim & RSA!!! PutSouthAficansFirst NoToZimWorkPermits

Zimbabweans will never willingly go back to Zimbabwe

They must fusek

Ziyakhala manje

Ma Zai Zai mawahambe NoToZimWorkPermits

They must go home to their free land that Bob Mugabe gave them.

Good, let them go. Actually all of them. There is no war in Pakistan, Somalia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Nigerians that would let RSA to have headache about refugees. HomeAffairsSA , we want refugees camps to be resuscitated. Otherwise the current integration system is not working

Most Zimbabweans are paying ' Residential fees' to the local police. this will only make the police earn more!

Why only Zimbabweans and not everyone?

They have land to go back to

Dear Zimbabweans, let's invest on land given freely by our government. Those 50hectare and 5hectare farms can produce decent income. We must not feel hard done by the south African government but instead use whatever little we garnered here to grow our agric sector back home

Not bad at all . A good time to have a look at those import tariffs on SA products and bring back those jobs back to 🇿🇼 . The trade deficit is just ridiculous .

Is that so?

Not all of them depending on permits 🤔

Ey abahambe

Good riddance, we were suffocating by these people literally they are in every corner of South Africa NoToZimWorkPermits

As if they'd return

At list a sigh of some relief. Let them go home safely.

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