Unwelcomed Neighbours: Measuring the human cost of ending Zimbabwean permits

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Josphine Dhilwayo. Majaha Ndlovu. Constance Siwela. Jeremiah Zhuwau. Lindiwe Mathe. Thuli Sibanda. Andrew Dube. These are some of the people whose lives will be turned upside down due to the Zimbabwe Extension Permit cancellation.

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.

 

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You are definitely being paid to tweet like this,their loved ones aren't at their home country?

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If the decision was made December, what is the reason for them not going for the renewal?

Go home to your loved ones. BorderCrisis

Relax. Zimbabwe is unofficially our 10th Province. Open the borders. Let’s go make money there. They don’t know what to do with the land.

Nice try Simba

Adrian whether you write that every second those zimbos must just go home its about damn time. We want to fix our country without zimbos interfering in our domestic issues. Let's Zimbos go home. Whether Adrian you like it or not Zimbos must go home

Let it be. We are sick and tired of Zimbabweans

Let them go...whatever the price the white slave traders paid u to defend their slaves, u will lose at the end....Zimbabweans are going home

Your website domain says it all, This is not News but special project, paid for by someone '

Recycling the same story every single day ? This is tiring to look at

They must go now..end of year is too far 🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡

Nothing is forever. It comes to an end at some point.

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what kind of journalism is this? Why are you pushing a narrative?

Cheers guys! Hope you have a great flight! 👋👋

Please rest . Same story daily, Come on!

Zimbabwe chased foreigners away👇

They must ,we cleaning our country

Period!!!

We are sick sick and tired of the same story everyday, we also have a crisis of unemployment in SA, when are going to address it the same way as you are addressing our neighbors issues? Charity begins at home. Let those Zims go back home and fix their country.

That hashtag hurts South Africa so bad even I can feel it 🤔

mabahambe PutSouthAfricaFirst ASIJIKI OnsBaizaNie

You can also fotsek with them

Don't be crazy here what did these lawlessness people contributed to SA economy or they are the cause of all the decay you see around

You are crazy wena

Zimbabweans are happy to go home. I talk to them daily. They can't wait to be reunited with home soil and family.

All comes to an end, nothing is eternal, just accept and move on with your life you may be surprised

Yes. No longer welcome to suck us dry. Goodbye

All I know is all the white ppl protecting our neighbors are going to arise in amazements in the morning after, finding out their houses have been Ramaphosed🤭🤭🤫

SA media is really strange. Wasn't ZEP meant to have an expiry date, why does SA have to be demonized for running its affairs in accordance with its laws? This is soo ridiculous.

We don’t care !

Firstly: They got here with nothing, they should be happy to be leaving with some coins.. Secondly: Their loved ones are all in Zim, And for those S.African Woman that married or had kids with them should leave with its our culture as Black people that a Man should build a home

Little too late to ENFORCE immigration laws..... this is a huge issue where many are undocumented and just get lost in the system VoetsekANC

We don't give af , you can scream ur lungs out....zimbos are going.....🤞 i wish you go with thm cos they wl need ur bias report that side against zanupf ..you know how they feel when u lied to thm..🕺...🤦‍♀️

As South Africans We have lost jobs. Our banks accounts are closed. Some are separated from loved ones due to depression of unemployment. These are the stories of South Africans

So be it, ungrateful bunch of people

These are the best news ive heard all year

You must also tweet abt the increase of mental ill peoples in S.A that cause by high unemployment they are facing day by day, foreign nationals must go S.A citizens need those jobs they occupy.

Voetsek

70% of people you are chasing are Ndebele tribe. Your very own people. Its better to come and collect them all so that you can enjoy fruits of yo country SA with them.

South Africans understand our problem please. What you are doing is evil Do u know Ndebeles were South Africans b4 they actually have a province in Zim Matebeleland and some parts of Midland. We leave peacefully. Julius_S_Malema you r in my prayers win pres' elections nxt tym

You are trying too hard. No amount of bombarding us daily with such articles will make us accept the ZEP nonsense. Zimbabweans must go home & deal with their Gov and fix their country. They are not orphans and SA is not their nanny You are making our hearts hardened even more

They must futsegi

Send them home. Petrol and electricity in the neiboring countries which is supplied by South Africa is cheaper. So they can save when they get home.

South African stories are worse.

Their loved ones are in zimbabweans. Are you calling south africans citizens's zimbabweans's loved ones? You are not well upstairs. They are being forced to reunite with their loved ones. They should be greatful.

South Africans are facing a bleak future due to illegal migration, it’s either them or us

Who cares

A domestic worker (Zimbabwean) complained that they used to pay between R1500 to R2000 protection money to rogue SAs to remain 'unaffected'. Maybe we should send the rogue SAs to Zimbabwe and retain the Zimbabweans; they reportedly are loyal and efficient workers, and speak Eng.

You got that right they are indeed unwelcome neighbours

We are unemployed and wena u r worried about Zimbabweans losing their jobs? So fukken what? Let them lose those jobs so south Africans can fill them. Jou moer maan!

Contradictory statement..it was they don't take our jobs and all of sudden they wil loose jobs..they face the risks se voet south africans will occupy those jobs don't stress

You're concerned about immigrants losing their jobs while millions of South Africans are unemployed, it's sickening 🤮. Charity begins at home. Let's first employ our own only then will we be in a position of employing others.

They risk losing their jobs yet they are not taking jobs from SAn's. News24 u r a joke

Welcome overstayed. What Abt the millions of SA citizens who have never known such luxury in their own country?

Is abt time

U said these ppl don't take meager jobs meant locals, so what's the fuss? Let them go

Many people separate from their families to work a contract. When it expires. Then you go back home. You don't build a new family while working your contract.

you can go to Zimbabwe with them no one is stopping you,as for us we want to have a south african meeting as us south africans and rest assured even whites are gonna get what's due to them we haven't forgotten

VoetsekSAMedia enough is enough! You can votsek with them

Boo hoo

Why ningahambi nabo? Saze savelelwa news24 hambani nabo niye zimbabwe

The media itself said it's not true that they are taking jobs from South Africans not so long ago, now they suddenly face the risk of losing their jobs.

We don't care...

News24 should write the name of the people writing the news, id really like to ask the person what they think the state should do?.

Who is to be blamed?

This headline is printed everyday on my time-line n it's from same newspaper since last Wednesday you don't have news articles to print fokof NEWS24

News24 you're starting to be a thorn in Jesus ball's

'...being separated from their loved ones' They can take their loved ones with them to fast growing, beautiful and peaceful Zimbabwe if they are financially responsible for them. Adults knew the risks involved from day one - the ZEP was never permanent. What were they thinking?

It won't work news24 give up

Losing jobs wr Are they still talking about our jobs in our country, ooooh ba bereka re na a re bereke in our country like seriously

Gooo home

Votsek! They must go home we won't miss them a bit

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Mainstream media seems to care for them more than natives, why not follow them back to their home, no offence✌🏽

When my USA visa expired I left and didn't make excuses🤔🤔

Ek fok hulle Nie,South Africans have no jobs while these parasites jump borders and get employment, to hell with zimbos

VoetsekSAMedia is using Virtue signalling as a tool to weaken the governments powers when it comes to protecting the sovereignty of this country News media will always be counter productive to SA because it’s funders thrive from the chaos of lawlessness in this country

Ubuntu dictates that when you visit you dnt count plates when you find your host dishing up! Bothata Ke gore they counted the plates

Why don't you go and live with them in Zimbabwe since we'll you're so obsessed with them? Whites prefers Zimbabweans over their own black South Africans. Better wake up and smell the coffee my people, stop voting for whites,they are pro Zimbabweans

Their country (Zimbabwe) needs them

Please go home with your husband back to Harare his a land owner and can provide better for you and his family

We going home don't stress too much home is best 🙂

There is time to meet and TIME TO SAY GOODBYE, zimbos GOODBYE 👋 GREET EVERYONE BACK zim!TIME UP,BETTER LEAVE WHILE STILL A REQUEST THAN TO BE PUSHED,END OF zep NOMORE REQUEST OTHERWISE 🧻 🧻

They must go ..we are tired an have a lot of things to fix in SA. This bus called SA is so full an we need to off lood much.

The emotional blackmail is the worst thing you could be doing for their cause. You're literally making it worse. REST

We as South Africans lost our jobs to them and our private space. OperationDudula Mabahambe Dudula

Unwelcomed neighours like the ones that came and stole dollars PhalaPhalaGateFarm or are you referring to the ones that brought them

Really, sitting at every street corner selling apples & matches.

What is wrong there they are taken back home and they contract expired

they must go and fix their country instead of being cheap labour to white people

Oh...come on, they contribute nothing

PhalaPhalaGate

Nithi kuyambe bani ke,(who must go then, Us South Africans? Niyabheda ke.

Newa24 whoever writes this,, must be checked mentally. Zimbos take out money to their country. Don't write poes here

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Rules are rules

And stealing and murdering too...

Patriots What is fueling it will finish the dying MYANC

🤣🤣🤣🤣contributing to whose economy..let me teach you how to write proper headlines.'After years of unduly benefiting from the South African economy,ZEP holders finally face deportation at the end of the year' Enough man News24

Whoever wrote this is not South African

They taking our people's jobs. If you look at construction and carpentry jobs these people under quote the clients just to get the contract. After a year than the structure which they build cracks. SA's only thn make use of our people to do damage control. SA's enrich Zimbabwens

Contributing to SA economy? Njani when they take non critical jobs that we South Africans can do and they take potion of that money to Zim? So tell us , how are zimbos contributing cause it seems like we contributing to Zim only

South Africans will now contribute to their own country's economy. 🤗

Now it's their chance to go do that in their country. Zimbabwean ecoomy needs them more than SA economy

Voetsek traitors!

Yes, some brought skill sets we didn't have, but some were criminals, but we can't afford to tolerate immigrants in our country as it contributes to structural unemployment under our own youth. We need to put SAcans first.

Black Trump-Banana-Republicannitis , when home , warn the others of this south african askari virus . It hits the heads of the heads usually . Fire them if any traces detected.

You are captured

How did they contribute, please tell us. They sent all their money back to Zim

The madness of the useless media

Thats great news, now include the nigerians, mozambicans, and malaweans too. They stealing what is meant for south africans

This is the greatest thing ever

We as South Africans have done our part and now it's time that they go back home to vote Zanu-pf out

They must go and fix their broken country PutSouthAfricansFirst NoToZimWorkPermits

Oh goody!

Fushegi

Many came here illegally and are committing crimes here. They must go.

Gayton will take EFF's vote in the coming elections as a results of the borderless policy

Go to Zimbabwe with them

Talking shit mnqundu webhokwe... Who own this rubbish News24, such useless journalism

Overstayed their visit 🤣😂

They must go and contribute in their country where they are desperately needed.. charity begins at home

I know a paid tweet when I see one…

They were supposed to rebuild their own countries so that they can go back and enjoy their wealth. Those South Africans that were exiled in their countries have since returned

Lol 😂 news24 is trying hard shame

At least South Africans will now get a chance to also 'contribute to the South African economy', don't you think?

They must go contribute into ZIMBABWE economy now we can do it ourselves 🙃 as they are good economic contributes 🙃

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Media houses clearly hates SAn's! There's no war in Zimbabwe! I have no sympathy at all for them. Ankere they are well educated and skillful, well their must go back and rebuild their country!

What about the Jollof gang?

That's good news

You must be impartial.

News24 trying too hard to fuel anger amongst South African so we can be “xenophobic” and give them something to write about 😃😃 VoetsekSAMedia

Time to go and vote guys...

Where is the fucken contribution? Tell us

They didn't contribute shit

As if that will create jobs for locals.

The so-called educated Zimbabweans must go back home and fix their ailing economy instead of trying to force themselves on the country that does not want them. Clever Zimbabweans will always try tell SA citizens that they are smarter but yet fail to revive their economy

News24 and daily maverick and other publications are baise when reporting about the foreign nationals. They paint a picture and portray illegally foreign nationals as victims of xenophobic attacks and hatred and yet they fail to report atrocities perpetrated by foreign nationals

Why should we feel sorry for the Zimbabweans whereas we have lot of unemployed nurses,teachers etc. We have several millions unemployed youth in the country especially black youth. Some SA citizens go to bed on the ecan't stomach daily yet we must feel sorry for Zimbabweans

It's so sad

Not long ago the same news 24 and dairy maverick were reporting about shortage of teachers in SA forgetting that kzn alone has 30000 unemployed teacher graduates, jikijiki shortage of nurses in SA forgetting that SAnc has more than 100000 unemployed SAn nurs

News 24 is trying by all means to replace poor black/coloured unemployed South Africans with Zimbabwens, now they are fighting for trucks to b driven by Zms in SA, resturent,they demand that zins b working there, ubaer n domestic they demand that this nation

Home is where they belong Abahambe.

Why exactly must they remain in the country? There's no war in Zimbabwe

VoetsekSAMedia at it again with the fear mongering campaign and tactics Slowly we r seeing the interests of the people they really represent Until then, we will have to beat the dog until the owner comes out

ADFSAfrica Lol, why did they wait until this late to apply? We don't owe these Zimbos sheet!!!!!

Is it termination/cancelation or expiry?

Guess it’s time to go home then hey! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Use are worst than the apartheid regime

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ADFSAfrica Shut up

Nou gaan die lui gat manne van suid afrika wat nie wil werk nie hulle vingers uit hulle gatte moet trek. Ons het mos gewoond geraak aan die Zims wat eenige werk sal dien vir n brood.

Mabahambeeeeee, we need to sort our own problems nabo they must go sort out their country

Those permits were not meant to be permanently and SA was generous to give it to them cause edmnangagwa has done nothing for its citizens like SA has so let them go n apply for visas like everybody else N we urge SA home affairs to do forensic investigation on Zimbabwean SA IDs

So what

Simple, follow them. Proudlyxenophobic

Time to unfollow this account

We never asked them to invade us, one way ticket for them. Let them voeksek, for good

We were struggling and nobody asked their contribution

They must go, we are not playing, aba tsamaye

South Africa's economy is collapsing, Debt to GDP very high and Unemployment rate high! Which Economy were they contributing to?

Before you write something do you think first

Now is the time to go and contribute to you country's economy and grow Zim economy to greater heights

Voetsek

Which economy were they controlled to?

let them go and develop their economy in Zimbabwe. south africa for south african citizens, period.

kaycingo I am all the way for a borderless Afrika, but this in my opinion has nothing to do with whites being concerned about black migrants. This, in my view, is whites fighting not to lose their slave labour for the Independent Cape Town they are busy drafting referendums for.

They must Voetsek cos Unemployed SA citizens can do the jobs and they must go build there country cos they have the land

I don't know it's stupidity or payed tweets,if you have visitors they know if it's their time to go they leave without crying but if they refuse they become unwanted and you push them out of your house.

Contributing to SA economy njani because they are immigrants/refugees so they were not working. They can take their economy to their country it's needs them most than us.

'Contributing to the economy' aibo we msunu

VoetsekSAMedia

They have a country of their own. They're needed to build Zimbabwe!

We desperately need those vacancies so we can also contribute to our economy as citizens. We need that pride to work for our country and they must have pride to go back and contribute to their country

They must go home

It's only fitting that they be deported

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🚮🤡🚮 Garbage

Contributing to SA's economy? How?

News24 has become a joke. No longer take y’all serious. Everyone can see that y’all are used to push propaganda. Protect foreigners over South Africans

Boarder jumpers using Crocodiles 🐊 they were never invited it's shameful uninvited guests especially criminals claiming to contribute to mzansi while they are the most murderous, rapists, property destroyers, infrastructure vandalizers, cable thieves PutSouthAficansFirst

Stupid Zimbabweans! Why the hell were they toiling to 'contribute' to a foreign country when they have their own?No monkey tricks will make us fold!!! They will fok off! ZANUPF is the most blessed ruling hooligans in the world! They fuck up but citizens blame foreign governments

Propaganda machine

Send them to Cape Town rather, jobs are waiting for them especially the Shona

Best news ever.

They must go

This posturing by News24 is concerning, dangerous and needs to be addressed ClaysonMonyela. We cannot have a media house that behaves like a political party. Zim is going through a lot so as South Africa. SA is not Zim's extension.

Zimbabwean’s contribution to SA’s economy👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾Mabahambe 🚮🚮

You can write billions of articles. Oksalayo!

Their contribution will be mostly welcome in solving their country’s problems 🤔🤔🤔

Tell them to go contribute to Zim economy as now we release them freely not to contribute to SA economy anymore....

White media are reporting trash and propaganda

What's your angle, SA citizens will continue to contribute to economy, Zimbos must just apply for alternative permits that's all HelenSuzmanFdn

Very good they must go home and help bring down zanu pf

Increasing insurance due to crime, cable theft, car hijacking, etc is not contributing to the economy. Unfortunately, this is a generalisation, but SANs are gatvol

News24 is shit struu

Time to fuck off

Me and my fellow SAns, we a law abiding citizens, we carry our ID, drivers license, pay tax, we give back to our communities. Can you praise us too pls, assemblief tog

I guess Chief Editor is from Zim or married to one or have roots and relatives from there...this is not normal🤔

Hulle moet waai!

They shouldn't have come in the first place.

Zim economy need them now

The most unwelcomed foreigners in SA are Zimbabweans (for home invasions) and Nigerians ( for running illicit drug trade and scams)!

Who was just elected to head the African Union? Let's be focused on building peace in our region And our Beloved Country! Let's be acting responsibly with care and human rights.. not illegal free for all not same old neglect... but follow a well considered and effective policy.

Contributing to the economy my black ass

Who cares Zimbabweans muat go work and contribute at home. No invited them in the 1st place

Now they must go build economy for their kids 🤣😂🤣 if they worked hard here surely they can do the same fpr their countrys future

🤣 you’re not achieving what you’re trying to achieve. This Zimbabwe story is now an annoyance and a joke to us 😅

Zimbabweans are UnwelcomedNeighboursFromHell As a SAn tax payer I've been feeding & taking care of these hooligans for many years through social services that should be benefitting only SAns. They've overcrowded every school, hospital, clinic, prison. zimbabweans must vokof🤬

Everyone deserves to go home,bon voyage. And you must stop advocating against going home.

They must go work in & contribute to zimbabwe's economy. NoToZimWorkPermit NoToZimPermit VoetsekZimbabweans VoetsekHelenSuzmanFoundation VoetsekSAMedia OperationDudula PutSouthAficansFirst VoetsekEFF VoetsekANC

After yearsof 178 000 unemployed South Africans will find jobs, occupied by foreigners without critical skills as required by constitution.

I don't get who the target of your propaganda is. If the South African public is your target, clearly they are not buying it. Politicians are greedy, they will do what people say if they fear they might lose power. At this point, SA media is just mutilating itself unprovoked.

You are replacing Daily Sun now

Zimbabweans in SA are a consequence of bad governing from the ANC. The people shall correct that mistake.

Save us this DRIVEL, NEWS24.

We were feeding them to keep them alive which sector did they build? Where they recruited like how Rwanda is calling their Teacher's?

Propaganda not journalism this one.

This is unfair,SA teachers are useless and like to drink and have zero knowledge for Maths & Science

News24 🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮

Wena you from Zimbabwe

Exemption permit are not the ultimatum, there are different visas that they can still apply like all other countries do 🤷

Something is wrong with this Newspaper

They have used Zimbabweans like condoms 💔💔

Guys they have us an email address, come on Patriots, let's do the things that need to be done✊😂😂🤣

ADFSAfrica Refugees flee war. There is no war in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has an unemployment rate which is TEN TIMES LOWER than South Africa. You must really think we exist to serve you.

Can we get similar updates about Phala Phala farm gate please

you are now boring and irritating

To seek refuge 😀😀 But everytime they go back home and come

Whatever you decide to write against HomeAffairs, know that South Africa’s unemployment rate is at its all time high at all levels.

That is why we are Dudula.

VoetsekSAMedia

They must go

voetsekeff voetsekesamedia voetsekocyrilramaphosa

I like to share this success story in Zim

I have shared my story Azkhale 😂😂😂😂😂

You may think you're helping but actually you're not. All you're doing is converting moderate people into hardened Dudula members and the permits STILL won't be renewed. Carry on.

Who sought for refuge for what exactly coz there no war or terrorism in Zim they just have to vote wisely

Get a life. South Africans are gatvol. You can retweet this as many times as you want it will not change the outcome.

Problem with Africans is that they want to do Africa united here in SA

VoetsekNews24

Zim24 cranking out propaganda 24/7🤦🏾‍♂️

It's so sad that you think by sharing this you helping Zimbabweans when in fact you are adding fuel to the fire. Its creating more harm than good for Zimbabweans. Even those who had some sense of pity for them are now beginning to join the anti zim movement. I've seen 4 already.

Fokof

TSEKNews24

VoetsekNews24

You must stop irritating us wena msunu & advise your sponsors to apply for alternative visas. It does not matter how much you publish their stories SAns are gatvol & hard-hearted at this stage. The more you publish the more they dispises Zimbabweans. Your propaganda's not helping

Give them your monthly salary and stop boring us

Y'all truly love Zimbabweans over us🤞🏾🤞🏾 but What I can't fathom if you live them this much why you're not operating from there

Futseg doti

You don't know it but after dealing with the ANC, the people will come after msm and you will probably be the first they forcefully close down in SA or force to undergo a change. Your propaganda has no place here.

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Arghh man nee flip! You guys are going to greatest extremes to enslave Zimbabweans in South Africa

Futsek

Disgusting!!

What? Please follow them to Zimbabwe.

We are suffocating

Makube njalo

Your education makes you not 2 be in touch with reality,oneday you'll taste d pudding & understand let's hope it's not 2 late by then. We just trying to have a better life & as much as u protecting d permit better they have home to back to while thina we have no where else to go.

Saze savelelwa Bo!!! Kanti kwenzenjn

We never invited this people they came on their own took our lives so its time they voetsek

I like this initiative. It is actually uniting South Africans

Encourage them to go and build their own country

sivile , phezani ngoku yhoo

Your nonsense strategy won't work. Those Zimbabweans must go contribute to Zimbabwe's economy and you must go with them 🙄🙄🙄🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 PutSouthAfricansFirst OperationDudula

I wonder why is this guy fighting with Zimbabweans

Am I welcomed in other countries without proper documentation?

This campaign by News24, which has been going on for some time now, will fail dismally. What economic contribution are talking about? Or you mean the continued exploitation of Zimbabweans by White and Indian South African business people? We see you.

Thank God they must leave our country we need our country back We never run out of our own land Foreigners go to your countries

It's good news that these aliens including the leaders of this project will be sent back home.

Anipheli moya trying to drum up support for your favorite makwerekwere and their cheap labor!Fokof with them to Harare and leave us in peace

Let them go and contribute in their country's economy. In their place, we will hire a South African, and that will reduce unemployment...Go home Malema's country men

10 years have been to long on extensions nowhere in the world this happens its time to build up Zimbabwe wich the destroyed and rand here.

Thinking of some Zimbabweans in SA needs serious and deep restructuring

Prudent people work and contribute to their country's economy, not strange ones

Hahahaaaa eish... This headline is killer hey🤣🤣🤣

Sorting out illegal immigration by deporting the legal ones is completely short sighted and totally misses the point.

Time to contribute to the economy of their country 👈👈

Laba abanye basalelan

Those jobs will be occupied by SA people

Your campaign is not going to work Simba

Your love for cheap labour and big mouthed Zim cowards has clouded your judgment

contributing by ripping our infrastructure.killing innocentpeople(spikes)..stealing cables?....you hate SAns

At least they have the perfect opportunity to go rebuild their motherland.

They must futsegi

Sehappy

There's an agenda of some sort here, this people were given 12 months to reapply for new permits

Very sad KeepOurZimbabweanBrothers

The part about contributing beats me… so all the SAns whose jobs are taken by foreigners are not worthy contributors? And yet we know know that the money is being shipped out of the country by the billions leaving millions of hungry mouths in SA.

The economy is not doing well right now...

Contributing to our economy that sinking because of them aibo sfeg propaganda south ahh was too better when they were not there

Their country needs their contribution we didn't ask or force them THEUR FAULT OF BEING WEAK INSTEAD OF FIGHTING FIR THRUR COUNTRY SERVES THEM RIGHT THEY MUST VOETSEK

They must contribute in ZIMBABWE hayi la tsk!!!

Didn’t you they were not taking any South African jobs? Now they’re working?

They can work in an contribute to their country's economy. Zimbabwe needs them more

The writer of this story is a Zimbabwean. He is trying to sympathies with his countrymen. He failed to tell his government in Zimbabwe to create jobs but has an audacity to tell South Africans what to do...

Go ask those from Zim to pay 75p.m to read rubbish

Renew qualifying permits. ZIMBABWEANS are US.

They were well aware that the arrangement was temporary!!!!

We’re going to contribute furthermore beyond the end of this year.Whether you like it or not but that’s the ugly TRUTH

This is their opportunity to contribute in building Zimbabwe.

Yes. Things change... Anc is preparing for 2024 elections...also Dudula is leading them...

they must go back to Zimbabwe and contribute to their economy..

Admin just tell us the truth you from Zimbabwe you're afraid to lose your job and being deported to that jungle called zim

I want them to be deported tomorrow! We had enough of you and your Zimbos🖕🖕🖕🖕

It's not deportation, its a change in location. They will now be able to work and contribute to Zimbabwes economy.

Every hour Zimbabweans this Zimbabweans that, nhe admin nawe you must be deported.

We are extremely xenophobic and we can't wait for all foreigners to be deported!!!!

Good...go fix your country

You must also leave with them VoetsekZimbabweans VoetsekSAMedia!!!!!!!!

Lol... anipheli mandla lonto. Yeyesingaphi learticle today alone? Wow. If only you were this consistent with our own problems like you are with your neighbours'

They can now go ns contribute to their OWN economy! Its clean up time for everyone now!

Heee banna,unwelcomed neighbours, WHAT WR u THINKING MARA?That your 'working'n'contribution'TRANSLATE INTO GENUINE CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY?I'm beginning to really indeed DOUBT yr so-called education,it's lacking,e lack somethin bohlalenyana so!End of zep u don't leaveDEPORTATION

How many born and bred South Africans 🇿🇦 were sidelined from getting wilfully employed, with the Zimbabweans rather being employed due to their willingness to work for a lower wage?

They benefited from their sweat, it not like they were doing anybody a favour. Ppl must respect the law. Failure to do that is anarchy...and this has best manifested in the destruction ofthe railway infrastructure, electricity infrastructure and the mayhem on the roads

Isn’t there any ombudsman where we can report for this?! Aaaowaa,this is too much now!!

Law and order must prevail. We are not a banana republic. Zimbabweans take their immigration laws seriously so why must we feel bad about enforcing our own laws. This thing of guilt tripping won't work.The law must be enforced and not dependent on feelings.

Haibo u posting this again

Let them go.

Contributing what

Let them go and fix their filthy country we don't need them

That means locals will get jobs 🥰🥰 the is light at the end of the tunnel

They must now go contribute in Zimbabwe. S Africans are so loving that we want these contributors to the economy to go help their own country Zimbabwe.

Contributing in destroying infrastructure, crime and overburden of hospital.

Embedded journalism. You are paid to write this fake concern about Zimbabweans in SA.

How much did they paid you? Because these articles are not going to change the decision taken by the department of home affairs. Give their money back

The headline?, wow . But we understand the agenda won't push itself, so yeah.

They earned a living. Time to go home. Period.

I don't know how many times this story has been reported. Is there something the media or its funders stand to benefit?

Why aren't they contributing in their own country? 😂

They can go contribute in their own country..they have done enough

All foreigners must go home. We need to fix our country..minus this anc of course

Kak24 protecting foreigners

Anisiyeke

What propaganda are you pushing ?

Bafowethu thina sikhathele yilama kwerekwere pls just let us be VoetsekSAMedia

It's not a cancellation. South Africa will not renew it. Your propaganda is useless. If news24 wasn't so pathetic, perhaps I would be angry.

Tsek

What lies from rubbish media! VoetsekSAMedia We can't wait for mass exodus of these unwanted, unloved Zimbabweans!!

Let’s report news24 twitter account. This is annoying now. Imagine in December… it’s going to be torturous Honestly. Report news24 twitter account

I don't mind you sharing the dictionary meaning of the word CANCEL nevermind hearing from what happens when the contract EXPIRES

😅🤣 they must hamba khaya🗣🗣🗣🗣

Shame. At least they have land, right?

Hey Voetsek wena maan with this ZEP nonsense. Do you think your campaign will sway the opnion of the judges or public ?.

South African lives have been turned upside down by those UnwelcomedNeighbours can they please read the room bathong we don't want them here they should go home, they must go home to Zimbabwe where they belong. South Africa belongs to South Africans

We really could not be bothered. Let them go fix Zimbabwe.

We don’t care . They must take their skills to Zimbabwe and build their country

Marete a lona kaofela saam le ma Zimbabwe

It is so funny how Zimbabweans are blaming South Africa for failing of their country and remember their president is mnangwagwa a black person not white or European

Fokof go work in their country with them

We don't care who they are! 😂😂 Their documents are expired, we are choosing not to renew, they must Voetsek

Voetsek

STOP BEING COWARDS Josphine Dhilwayo. Majaha Ndlovu. Constance Siwela. Jeremiah Zhuwau. Lindiwe Mathe. Thuli Sibanda. Andrew Dube, your only solution is to go home and Vote for a better future .

I have never seen an article where is encouraging Zimbos to go register to vote for change in their country

If I was a Zimbabwean in South Africa with land in Zimbabwe. I will would leave SA🇿🇦 citizens in peace and do farming Zimbabwe

Argh tsek maan, the law is the law whether dark or blue.

The 7 women raped and murdered in Polokwane,the infrastructure being stripped bare in broad daylight by your favorite Shona makwerekwere ,follow them to Harare and write your poems there in their revered land!Voetsek la trying to garner support from these unwashed louths!

You've just reminded me of the kind of media we used to have during apartheid, a bunch of propagandist trash!!,🚮🚮🚮🚮

Propaganda won't work. Truth is businesses intentionally exclude South Africans from job market and expect us to be excited.

KidiPotse Gardening, waitressing, domestic work, petrol attendants, nurses, teachers, truck driving, delivery man - hayi niyanya - we have these and if not go back home but will never offer it to people who insults & threaten our elected ministers

Not even a single story by these Zimbabweans seems to move me. I am cold just like that. I am only thinking about thousands of SA men who were denied employment in their country because of these people, who turned on them & insulted every chance they got saying they're lazy.

Unwelcomed neighbours? 😂😂😂 nice try VoetsekSAMedia

They have a home country, they are not stranded. They must demand sympathy from their government. You media are the cause of all evil in the world. VoetsekSAMedia

🤣😂🤣 These Zimbos names really matter in SA 🤣😂 u never hear this bias media give us any names of suffering SA citizens. And there’s millions of them!

VoetsekSAMedia

Since this is a project for you, you might as well save money for them for transportation. You enjoy harbouring slaves in your houses.

They are hard workers They are intelligent They are more educated Why fight to be in a country that is below your level? Explain to me as you would to a 5 year or a labradoodle Ooh by the way there is no such a thing as exemption permit, it was created by SA to accommodate them

Maybe it's time you close your office and leave our country. Go and operate in Zimbabwe

Good News 4 South African citizens.👌👌👌

KidiPotse Nonsense we don't care how bad it should be there solution it's at the hand of them just tell them to go 🔙 & vote ❎ no media, NGO or politician its going to save them it's enough

Yesh keeo on bending over. They must still fokof and you can fokof with them, we don't care.

They must go home. There's million more SAns whose life is also upside down as a result if the ZEP

Millions of South Africans had their lives turned down when Zimbabweans took their jobs I didn't see any article regarding that

If it was not for all the illegal aliens, these 180 thousand would have continued to fly under the radar, they have their own countrymen to thank.

Once your likes are more than comments you must know that you pressed a button

Ngoku thina senzeni?

News24 le feletswe ke maaka jaanong, kwalang ka Phalaphala Farm

They must just go and apply

Voetsek News24 Voetsek Media24, We are Operation Dudula, Put South Africans First

Now I understand why dictators clamp down on the media when they waltz into matters they aren’t supposed to. This is rubbish journalism. VoetsekSAMedia

Every law changed and gov action affects some people negatively, when apartheid ended, it affected some people negatively. But when the change brings more good than the minority negatively affected, that is a good change.

If you can be found in zimbabwe that you have overstayed.they lock you up on the spot.permits were given with an expiry was never promised that it will turn into a permanent residency license.people writting these articles are zimbabweans themselves

you are hell bent to push for Zimbos to stay in South Africa 🤞🤞

KidiPotse Sad stories but their permits expired, permits that turned illegal immigrant criminals into legal migrants. It’s time to go, so good luck with rebuilding Zimbabwe.

We don't care about their lives. It's the law, South African law and it should be respected. We are not a state that nurses foreign nationals lives. We care about South Africans. We choose to put ourselves first as South Africans. Please anisiyeke ngama Zimbabweans, sies maarn!!

Almost 50% of unemployed SAns have their lives turned upside down in their own birth country. We didn't vote on behalf of foreign national.

Tik tok … 6 months to go …

Sacrilege journalism. Below the bottomless pit. No shame, special project? What happened to the rule of law?

Goodbye. Safe travels back to Zim

I thought it's the name of the kids that died at EnyobeniTavern Its propanganda time

Nothing was cancelled. The end of the temporary ZEP on 31 December 2021 was extended to 31 December 2022 as a goodwill gesture.

They shouldn't have come here in the 1st place

That will be bad news when the day come, they need to prepare themselves as the grace period is coming to an end. SA with more than 46 percent of population depends on social grant ,that's not good news. We need to employ south Africans in order to decrease high unemployed

edmnangagwa this 1 must take responsibility.

What's going on with NEWS24? SAVE US THAT DRIVEL PLEASE.

It’s nothing personal SA’s still live in the shadows of apartheid economic strangulation and lack of land reform, it is also a political move to gain SA’s confidence into restructuring of the economy..we are also actively struggling to make ends meat in our own country.

Remember these people are educated, there are other country that needs these highly skilled Zimbabwean individuals. Call me selfish, but elk een vir himself, Zim must take their children assemblief

Humanising a situation so that u can gain sympathy might work in certain countries But it’s not going to fly in a country with the highest unemployment rate in the world The sobs stories are a drop in the ocean compared to the problems of most SAns VoetsekSAMedia

news24,FERIALHAFFAJEE, NICOLE_FRITZ, WHAT IS THE WORST THING THAT IS GOING TO SOUTH AFRICA & IT'S CITIZENS, WHEN ZIMBABWEANS GP BACK TO THEIR COUNTRY. Marriage, study visas, tourist visas is not a guarantee to be a permanent residence of a country you applied to

News 24 even if u tweet 100 000 times they are going back home

Are there no WHITE Zimbabweans affected? Why ya’ll only showing us Black faces? Give us a demographic breakdown of the 178000 permits.

They must fokof!

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We told them Zimboz that ANC knows what's good for them and this is just the beginning 2024 near and SAns are not like them, they'll punish them in the polls sèe even EFF is quite about this now SAns can never be dictated to. It's unfortunately y'all got go it's about time yhoo

Now they'll have the opportunity to take what they learned in SA to help rebuild their country

Do these people want to stay in SA forever?

Voetsak News24!!!!

Suka🚮🚮🚮 abahambe. They have home to go to.

Tsek!

They have land and education, why don’t they go home ! I’m sure for all the years they’ve been working here. They’ve saved to go rebuild their lives!

Someone should open a case of bribery against our journalists, just for control!

We do not give a rats behind. There is no war in Zimbabwe. Bots and Namibia is sending them back bcoz the threat they claimed to be running from is gone. The leeches must go

They can join the other illegal immigrants living in the country. After all the ANC must start a tender to deport all illegal immigrants and we know what happens when the ANC cadres see tender money😋😋

All that your stupid campaign has achieved so far is making those permits the focal point in the illegal immigration struggle. Thank you for that, they will never be renewed now. NoToZimPermits

Bye bye Zimbos 👋🏼 thanks for coming but time to go home to big daddy now. Thanks for visiting.

Mabayonya bedibene who authored this nonsense!

We don't care kept on write that stories

Yhooo! You guys mara🤔

People need to unfollow this page,I'm gonna hit the block button now

Ay Voetsek wena shlama

So what do you suggest we do? Do you know ow many Dubes and Ndlovus of this country are sending CVs everyday? Anikahle nina ukusicefezela

All that your campaign has achieved is making those permits the focal point in the illegal immigration struggle. Should they be renewed, I'm afraid of what will happen in South Africa. NoToZimPermits

Zimbabweans have a country, it’s called Zimbabwe.

Ndiyadika shem....

You can try all the tricks and blackmail but if wont work. Abo Simba chips must go back and rebuild their country

If you think you're relentless then you don't know us.

They must add the numbers and go home. Zimbabwe is waiting for them

Almost 50% of unemployed SAns have their lives turned upside down in their own country.

Mnangangwa has jobs for them. Tik tok, HOME TIME!!!!!

Honestly this is getting boring now

Kahle boh News24 with this agenda, y'all care more Zimbabweans then you care about South Africans

Who is FUNDING these articles? Let the HARDWORKERS go work the LAND. Stop pushing your propaganda down our throat. We have High unemployment rate. We can't breathe

Is this real page for New24 or just a a fake one cause it's on about same story...

They have land back in Zimbabwe, for the past 14 years they were labelled as hardworking, reliable and educated people in SADC, now it's time they invest all that in Zimbabwe.

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