via SA invites Mohadi | The Herald 29 July 2014 by Tendai Mugabe
Zimbabweans working in South Africa whose work permits expire in December will know of their fate on Thursday after Pretoria invited Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi for a meeting over the matter. An estimated 250 000 Zimbabweans were given work permits under a special dispensation by the South African government a few years ago.
Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, Minister Mohadi said they had not received official correspondence from South Africa relating to the expiry of the permits.
He said the issue had drawn anxiety among ordinary Zimbabweans and the media, prompting him to seek audience with the South African authorities.
He said the South Africans agreed to meet him next Thursday.
“We as a ministry have not received any correspondence from the South African Government that our permits have expired,” he said.
“They have not communicated to us on those lines. It is through the media and other quarters that the permits are going to expire and they are not going to be renewed and that the dispensation that we have entered into with the South Africans is coming to an end.”
“Because we are pro-people, when we heard about that we decided to go and see the South Africans.”
COMMENTS
We are pro-people, really!
Do Zanupf people ever get ashamed or power has ruined their cinsciousness and sanity? They are urging the South Africans, their comrades in the ANC to do like them here but they want to beg them to keep millions of desperate Zimbabweans so that they can work. Mugabe boasts that he has given the people everything yet his minister goes to beg a foreign government to even violate its constitution. Does Mohadi foresee South Africans saying tha
“their consciousness” and not “cinsciousness”. Does Mohadi foresee South Africans saying that the country will treat Zimbabweans separately from other foreigners? That is dangerous for the South Africans and worse for the naive ANC.
Talk of crocodile tears, trying to win hearts when they are the ones who caused these hardships including the migration.
sadly Bob doesn’t want them either, he told us a few years back the country would be better of with only zanu dogs left, so he doesn’t really give a cr@p
Yesterday stats SA released numbers that unemployment is sitting at its record high since 2008 of 25.5% .this minister must be smoking ganja im sure if he wants to tell south africa to keep more than 3 million zimbos and welcome another millions in this dire situation we currently facing.i forsee xenophobic attacks soon if our Melusi Gigaba can give the what they want
What ZANU PF are scared of is the Zimbabweans coming home to poverty and their remittances declining worsening the parlous financial situation Zimbabwe is in. It will also further strain the food resources in a country where 2,6m people receive food aid (it must be noted from the hated West and not Mugabes friends in the EAST). These unhappy impoverished people are likely to agitate for the removal of ZANU PF from office at the next election.
Wise words Kevin Watson.