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Home Affairs Issues More Than 130 000 Permits
The Department of Home Affairs says it has issued a total of 133 331 permits to Zimbabweans enabling them to legally remain in the country.
Speaking at a briefing on the status of the amnesty project in Pretoria, head of the Zimbabwe Document Project, Jacob Mamabolo, said however, that not all the applicants had collected their permits.
Mamabolo, who stated that the figure includes those who applied for amnesty, argues that despite SMSs being sent to those people who had not yet collected their documents, some still remained at the department.
To read the article titled, “Permits issued to more than 130 000 Zim migrants,” click here.Source:Mail&GuardianSA to Deport Undocumented Zimbabweans
People Against Suffering, Oppression and Poverty (PASSOP) says that South Africa will begin deporting undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants on 31 July 2011 for the first time in over a year.
PASSOP says that the move will leave nearly 500 000 people in danger of being sent home to a country that is still politically and economically unstable.
PASSOP head, Braam Hanekom, has been quoted by the media as saying that while the move, called the Zimbabwean Dispensation Process, is progressive, the impending changes leave himself and other human rights activists alarmed.'
To read the article titled, “South Africa to begin deporting illegal Zimbabwean immigrants,” click here.Source:All AfricaZimbabweans Still Waiting for Passports - PASSOP
An estimated 100 000 Zimbabweans still need passports to enable them to receive permits to stay in South Africa, according to People Against Suffering, Suppression, Oppression and Poverty (PASSOP).
PASSOP spokesperson, Braam Hanekom, points out that, “"As we were monitoring centres towards the end of the deadline we found people lacked Zimbabwean passports and documents."
PASSOP estimated that about 100 000 of the 250 000 Zimbabweans who applied for permits during the recent Zimbabwean Dispensation Project were still waiting for them.
To read the article titled, “100 000 Zimbabweans still waiting for passports,” click here.Source:All AfricaWorking the City: Experiences of Migrant Women in Inner-city Johannesburg
The exhibition is a culmination of a participatory photography project which worked with migrant women involved in sex work in the inner city of Johannesburg. The project, which ran for ten days, worked in collaboration with ongoing research that is being undertaken with women involved in sex-work in inner-city Johannesburg. It is hoped that the images selected with the participants and displayed, and the accompanying narratives, will contribute to an increasing body of knowledge relating to the experiences of migrant women involved in sex work and how they (re)present themselves, perceive and experience the city.
Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Programme students at the Market Photo Workshop trained eleven participants in photography and editing skills, and provided added support by accompanying them as they moved about the inner-city to capture images. Participants and students together edited images to create the final exhibition.
Time: 18h00
About the Market Photo Workshop:
The Market Photo Workshop, a Johannesburg-based school of photography, gallery and resource centre for practicing photographers, has played an integral role in the training and growth of South Africa's photographers for twenty years. The Photo Workshop Gallery is the associated gallery of the Market Photo Workshop and shows photographers, students and the products of public practice projects such as those of Working the City.
About Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand:
The FMSP is an independent, interdisciplinary and internationally engaged Africa-based centre of excellence for research and teaching that shapes global discourse on human mobility, development and social transformation.
About Sisonke Sex Worker Movement:
Sisonke is a sex worker led movement that was launched in 2003. The movement aims to unite sex workers, to improve living and working conditions and to fight for equal rights for sex workers.
For more information contact Tambudzai Madzimure at tambudzaim@marketphotoworkshop.co.za.
For more information on Market Photo Workshop, click here.Event venue:Photo Workshop GalleryEvent start date:06/10/2010Govt Condemns Xenophobia Threats
The South African government has condemned people who are planning to use the FIFA World Cup’s good spirits, to stamp out simmering anti-immigrant sentiment.
Police minister, Nathi Mthethwa, states that, "We will not tolerate any threat or act of violence against any individual or sector of society, no matter what reasons are given to justify such threats or actions."
Meanwhile, human rights organisation, Black Sash, is already meeting with communities to verify the authenticity and put its prevention measures in place. Black Sash’s advocate, Nkosikhulule Nyembezi, says that, "We can't simply ignore these threats as just rumours and yet we cannot give them too much credit."
To read the article titled, SA seeks to harness Cup to ease xenophobia,” click here.
Source:Mail&GuardianSA to Allow Zimbabweans Without Visas
Home Affairs minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, says that Zimbabweans are welcome to enter the country without visas, a change expected to slow the flow of thousands of asylum seekers from the troubled northern neighbour.
Mapisa-Nqakula points out that Zimbabweans no longer need to apply and pay for visas before travelling to South Africa. Instead, they can apply for a free 90-day visitor's permit at the border.
She states that Zimbabwe citizens can also apply to do casual work while in South Africa.
To read the article titled, “Zimbabweans welcome in SA without visas,” click here.
Source:<br /> News24
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