Zimbabweans

In Harare, Zimbabwe, home to the world’s biggest stock market rally, the gains come at break-neck speed: 5%, 10%, even 20% in a single session. Tally them up, and the market is up an astonishing 800% on the year. But in a country where up…

The latest six month extension of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) system until December 2023 announced last week merely postpones the inevitable day of reckoning for hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans living in SA. Few are likely…

The Gauteng High Court ruled on Tuesday that children of Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders must be allowed to register for school within the next 10 days. This was after the ZEP Holders Association (Zepha) brought an urgent…

Zimbabweans are being subjected to 19 hours of power cuts a day, because there is insufficient water in the Kariba dam to drive the nation’s main hydropower plant. The worst outages since 2019 are wreaking havoc, causing snarl-ups in…

Zimbabweans in SA are living in a perilous state of uncertainty as the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) system is due to come to an end in June 2023. There are reports of Zimbabweans, living and paying tax in SA for more than a decade,…

Zimbabweans who have returned to their old country after working and studying for years in South Africa are battling to rebuild their lives. Most were forced to make the move because of the South African government’s announcement that…

On 15 September we reported that Zimbabweans trying to leave South Africa were being turned back at Beitbridge border, apparently by the new Border Management Authority guards in Musina, Limpopo. As a result, people we spoke to were…

The six-month extension to June 2023 of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) brings some relief to nearly 180 000 permit holders, but many families are still opting to voluntarily return to Zimbabwe. The ZEP permit was to expire at the…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is planning a food relief programme targeting 700,000 people in Zimbabwe from October as the effects of a poor harvest and the Ukraine war continue to show, an official has said. Zimbabwe’s…

Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans are at risk of deportation when the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme ends in December. Lawyers representing the permit holders say they are preparing to haul banks to court to prevent them from…