Zimbabwean expatriates who settled in South Africa will expire, leaving many of them vulnerable to deportation if they are unable to secure alternative permits by then.
If they are unsuccessful, in some cases, an entire generation of children will be forced to relocate with their parents to a country they may never even have visited. In November 2021, the department announced that the ZEP would not be extended again, and all holders of this special permit had until 31 December 2021 to apply for a visa to stay in South Africa.
A government of national unity was eventually formed in 2009 between Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe. Still, trust issues often saw it hit the rocks. So many in the country who had had enough of the constant anxiety and hardship, decided to leave. However, after the sudden swell of people applying for asylum or refugee status during the political and economic turmoil, in April 2009, Cabinet created the Dispensation of Zimbabweans Project.
But anti-Zimbabwean sentiment appears to have resurfaced again, with Zimbabweans being accused of taking jobs that South Africans could be doing. I started working as a home-based carer and was so happy to put my princess in a very good school. Now we can't renew our permits. I don't know any other life than the one I have now.I have worked as a forecourt attendant at a petrol station in Gqeberha since 2008. The decision to scrap the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits will affect me because I am providing for both my family here in South Africa and my parents in Zimbabwe. My father needs my assistance as he is 95 years old.
I also support three children, one of which I had to take out of school because of this permit [situation]. I haven't been able to do simple things like renewing my car licence because I was told my permit had expired.The cancellation of the Zimbabwean Exemption permits came as a shock, not only to me but also to my fellow countrymen who are ZEP holders.
With the non-renewal of the ZEP, I am deeply worried that my husband will lose his job and even be deported, and then I will suffer with the children. I won't be able to provide for my children the way my husband is providing for them right now, which is to pay rent, buy food, pay school fees and school transport.
They should never qualify- they need to go back to Zim We can no longer carry them Why is it so impossible for y’all to get this 🤷🏽♀️
Who owns news24, the owner is careless they employ people who don't read to understand why vele. This thing has expired but they say has been terminated iyoh. Hr odomkop
That's better
Msunu wabo bonke!
Now I'm starting to question your Nationality. Ya'll can't be a South African media house sympathising with Terrorists.
We don't care anymore those who married Zimbabweans let them leave with their husbands and wives
TebogoMonama LeninNdebele so you’re enjoying the presence foreign nationals bantu bakithi ?
VoetsekSAMedia go fight edmnangagwa ... y'all posting shitty daily...go back home
Go help them pack!!! What's wrong with you ? Not caring about SAns and our disgusting unemployment rate
MA ba hambe
News 24 you're hellbent on bad-mouthing SA for doing the right thing.those people you're referring to have a goverment which is responsible for them
Those Zim men who married SA women must take their families with them home to Zim. Those women thinking otherwise may apply for a divorce for them to remain in SA. It's allowed.
You're milking this dry and it's getting old. Besides, things are perfectly fine in zimbabwe.
You milking this dry and it's getting old. Besides, things are perfectly fine in Zimbabwe. I'm afraid the emotional blackmail isn't going to work.
niyanya nina you must futsek from mzansi nani and go stay at Zim VoetsekSAMedia
Let them registered first..to hell with their fear.
News24, we are watching you trying to campaign for this Madafakas to stay in our country illegal. You must dedicate that useless energy to fight Zim government for human rights abuse.If you really care about Zimbos,sent your Journalist to Zim and fight Mnagangwa.
I am an intellectual with a master's degree and unemployed. Everywhre I go looking for a job they say they can't afford me. They hire this Zimbos and pay them peanuts.Funy enough 97% of them faked qualifications. This Madafakas must be deported in mass.Fokof makwerekwere.
Father of 4, South African, now 40, unemployed, must pay school fee, cannot afford rent and nowhere to go but stay in South Africa. R350 is not enough to feed the whole family.
VoetsekNews24 VoetsekNews24 VoetsekNews24 VoetsekNews24
Go home Zimbabweans
They shouldn’t qualify … they need to leave We r fed up 🆙
They had 12 months, why are they only scrambling now? If they don't qualify, they will have to do what foreigners in the same situation do in Zimbabwe. Go home! Zimbabwe is very strict on immigration laws. They must VOETSEK. VoetsekSAMedia
VoetsekSAMedia
Then they should go home, there's no war in Zim.
SApeoplefirst!
They've left lots of land back in Zimbabwe. They can also consider the dead farming industry crippled by Uncle Bob & ZANU PF in the 2000s!
They did nothing for us and we owe them no favours... They claim to be educated but can't fix their country what a joke🤣 They need to take their smelly armpits and go fix their country 😤 We no longer want them in South Africa!
Actually they all shouldn't qualify, those people need to go home and apply their Quality education there, fix Zim if not for themselves then for their kids. They will need a home once we've deported all of them
Tnlhey are not entitled to the renewal of the permission. Their time is up.
And I'm willing to bet someone making sideline money getting the paper work sorted by bribing Home Affairs officials
So basically what we're saying is that there's no hope in rebuilding Zimbabwe so they must stay in SA for infinity 🤔
Voetsek News24, Voetsek Media24, Put South Africans First...
please don't irritate us about Zimbos, please relocate to Zimbabwe
Not buying this nonsense
If you don’t qualify for any other visa, please leave! You’ve overstayed your welcome. Your illegal countrymen are next
Vosek
14 years in the country with no papers? Just a ZEP? Thats all it must take for illegals to want to stay here?
Great news
News 24 and all its staff🖕🖕🖕
Husband died, lived in RSA for a decade, we are not bothered. Infact have you thought about SouthAfricans depending on a R350 grant living in remote areas with barely nothing to eat but one meal a day or none? Zimbabweans go so your country, we are busy sorting ourselves too GO
Nothing new, we've lived in SA all our lives and most are not working
r u guys paid per tweet? U r relentless, working overtime with ur pro Zimbo propaganda. It's not gonna fly guys just drop it. VoetsekSAmedia ScumMedia NoToZimWorkPermits Zimbabweansgohome OperationDudula PutSouthAficansFirst foreignersgohome VoetsekZimbabweans
Their countrymen NEED them please. No shame being a visitor for 14 years 🫣💀🚮
We cant welcome our neighbours and now reject them. We have to help and support them.
They must spend the remaining 6 months wisely instead of fighting to belong where they don't belong...
Ncoohh
We don't even care,we have tolerated nonsense for a very long time.
News24 has run out of news! Maybe the reporter’s visa has expired also! Do you think you’ll have sympathy in these streets! Shem!
Not just UnwelcomedNeighbours. Rather UnwelcomedNeighboursFromHell. Your propaganda won't help them in any way. In fact, you doing them an injustice by giving them the false-hope. If you trully love zimbos, advice them to start making plans to transition back into life in zim.
Zimbabwe, go home we need to clean our beautiful country South Africa,
They should rejected so they go and build beautiful Zim. The fertile land is waiting, hambani😊😊
Fraudulent permits. Ziyakhala abahanbe. They have over stay their welcome in SA
Border bumpers is time for them to go back home and work the land they grabbed from the Rhodesians. You Rhodesian too, go with them and go claim your land too
It's time to go home, can they please respect our laws
They always says they are educated but why can't they fix their shi* hole countries
Nazoke there is jobs at home so it have to be like that go home
When are they planning to go back to Zim?
Zimbabweans n their SA wives or husbands must go to Zim! Our taxes are stretched we educate their kids, provide health care, houses n jobs for them when nationals are excluded PutSouthAficansFirst
South Africans are sitting with qualification suffering, unemployment is to high because people occupied those te fotshek
Connect the dots South Africans. These publications are all owned by PrimediaGroup. Who owns Primedia? Naspers. Which other companies does Naspers own that employs Thousands of ZEP holders? Let's see how about TAKEALOT? Maybe MrD? Am I missing others?
The clock is ticking. They got 12 months to apply for the relevant permits. Tick-tock Tick-tock ⏰
Its SA, don't worry....no rules here just pre ANC election talk...
Zim this Zim that You're sad cheap labour is going ne?
Your reporters are probably those Zimbabweans affected
These narratives you're pushing are from the CIA textbooks propaganda all the way ok'salako OperationDudula PutSouthAfricansFirst Phalaphalafarmgate
Who cares!!! They must go home now
Myself I don't know what News 24 are trying to do, we want them all gone and when I say we I mean SAns from any party that supports the movement of cleaning up SA ✊🏿 no turning back.
Their ZEP Permit always carried an expiry date,the is no excuse. How do you force yourself to be permanent, while documents says the opposite. We have SA Citizens to be concern about i.e. 46% of capable workers on Government Grants..then your plight has to supersede theirs..BS!
Aygubhe
Rules are rules. If all the expats were expelle from England so be it. Time for Zimbabwe to build the country vote out others.
instead of learning how to put Gov. under pressure i.e. PutSouthAfricansFirst & OperstionDudula you're busy bad naming. 1. Therefore, you'll be leaving; whether you like it or not; with no alliance but empty-handed. 2. Our votes in SA counts..4get ANC,EFF SA 4 SAns..
Zaizais must go
They must Voetsek
How long can SA continue to baby sit Zims while ZANU PF is having a field day?
This is pure blackmail to South Africans
Zim was the ANC’s old friend . Now that they are a useless lot the anc drops them and chooses to sign itself with Cuba and Russia . How low can you go .
The answer is simple GO BACK HOME. What are they afraid of back home?
Who's the editor of ? You are approving shit news.
So these people nje do not want to go home. However unfair and unfortunate their continued stay is to South Africans? PutSouthAfricanFirst this side.
Stop scrambling and go home, Zimbabwe needs hard workers to rebuild the economy.
Time to go back home. Goodbye! PutSouthAfricansFirst WeWantOurCountryBack
Jy is in die kaak economic migrants masquerading as asylum seekers. Now the truth is coming out, you are unwelcome any longer go home fix Zimbabwe we've had enough of you. All your excuses are nonsensical. PutSouthAficansFirst OperationDudula
They must definitely leave before all this happens
Now you’ve become ZANUPF_Official spokesperson and you don’t hide it any longer. VoetsekSAMedia UnwelcomeNeighbours
Not our business, nami 14 years no employment in my country.
I thought Zimbos own land back home unlike black South Africans.. I'm shocked that they don't want to go back home to enjoy their land without any wmc interference ?
WoW you are really on a campaign for public sympathy neh,why don’t you use the same pen to condemn their government 🇿🇼 instead of this emotional black on our government 🇿🇦 Huhh?
Bana ba baloi you are out to paint the SA government bad, nothing about Zanupf which is the culprit to all this. Nxaa 🤢🤮
Are there no other news in South Africa 🤷♀️. Yesus sick of these stories trying to emotionally blackmail us.
They must go. Try as u may
Go home Zimbabweans, go home. Hamba
Good,yol must go home!
Jesus, you guys have been posting the whole day about this. We don't give a damn! If they don't qualify then they should go home. Simple.
Aaron got them...
They must go bakithi ay skhathele
You really trying so hard admin.. let it go!!
They must fokof..!! Show SAns who aren’t working also..!! Sies..!! 😠
Voetsek
Did you know that South African youth is actually the one bearing the burden of Zimbabwean sanctions, feeling the pinch of failed corrupt Zimbabwean state? Zimbabweans must go back home and suffer the pain of things they helped maintain through their vote for all these years.
Zim expats who jumped our boarders and the MYANC contravened SA immigration laws to accommodate them temporarily. That whole thing was and is still illegal. They must go home.
They should go home! We don't owe them anything, or they should go to other Countries if they hate going back home! ZEP will not be renewed!
They should have used the time to fiz their country . Instead they were making children in RSA!
, your emotional blackmail won't work. ZEP is over
Heeey, live us alone wena News 24...🤣
Honestly, going home will be great for their country and their loved ones.
NEWS24 you trying so hard now. There's must be some kind of agenda behind and its about to come out. Hambakhaya
Ur trying so hard...we are suffering in our own country dis bullshit
They will have a taste of how South Africans feel when they can't get work
There is one unequivocal maxim and all things should flow from it: South Africa is EXCLUSIVELY for South Africans. South Africa will decide who lives here or who doesn't. A govt and media who gang up with unwelcomed visitors will be treated with disdain.
Join them, go where ever you came from, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India or Sudan.
Awudiki news 24 the whole day you were feeding us about Zim permits, take them to your house kaloku
Please go situate yourselves in Zim you are worried more about them than actual citizens of this country. If you care so much about them report on the horrors of Zanupf or start hosting these 'Refugees' in your homes Danko
Then go home
Does anyone know the race breakdown of these ZEP permits because where did the Rhodesians go to guys
What alternative permits? Go somewhere else, they might like you manipulating them as being hard worker 👇
What happened to Asiyindawo
When is this Cowards Zimbabwean going fix their country? Thy folded their arms when Mugabe n Zanu PF destroyed Zim/Rhodesia economy
Lol wat makes them not to qualify 🤷♂️🤷♂️ let them go home and fix Zimbabwe
They should be scrambling for a plan to fix their country. The gravy train is over in South Africa.
I think its time you contact one of us to level the playing field, I am here anyday (Pro Foreign Lover Medis, SA's first source of bias reporting)
There's no place like home this's blessing in disguise for Zimbabweans
14 years or not let them go home if they don't quality for a new visa
They must Fokof!! Simple and straightforward!! We're FEDUP with Zimbabweans and we don't want them here. They can even take their girlfriends and wives with to go see falls no worries!
This propaganda is boring now... They must go back to their country
Is this a campaign by news24 ?
Hamba Kaya plus we don't have enough electricity awah niyasishodisa
Paid tweet
We now calling for deportation. Borders have long been useless
Why can't they qualify since they are so intelligent and educated? This is the opportunity to show South Africans how smart they are. ANC is in danger of losing national election in 2024,believe me they won't risk it by renewing ZEP. Rest Zimbabwean journalists, apply for UIF
Gaan huis too
They must go. We're full.
why is it difficult to go live in their own country?what does South Africa have which Zimbabwe doesn't have?I'm finding it very difficult to understand what's so important about SA,it all seems like they are running away from their own land
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: News24 - 🏆 4. / 80 Read more »
Source: News24 - 🏆 4. / 80 Read more »
Source: ewnupdates - 🏆 30. / 53 Read more »
Source: eNCA - 🏆 49. / 51 Read more »
Source: ewnupdates - 🏆 30. / 53 Read more »
Source: BusinessTechSA - 🏆 24. / 61 Read more »