Zimbabwean Deportations Start Again

07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone in Legal, Vibe, World

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Refugee rights groups are not happy with the South African government right now, since it has quietly begun deporting Zimbabwean refugees again. The Zimbabwean Documentation Project (ZDP), which Home Affairs has been working on for two years, meant that Zim migrants have been shielded from deportation from this country for the last two years.

Now, they live in fear again, following a not-so-widely circulated memo at the end of last month from the department, stating that deportations would re-commence. The sentiment from Home Affairs is that goodwill has been shown through its attempts to regularise the status of Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa, but that illegal aliens will not be tolerated, as per international practice.

There are currently 1,5 million Zimbabweans in the country, but fewer than 300 000 applied for legal paperwork during the amnesty period.

[Source: MG]

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