‘The organisation is of the view that the extension of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit , together with a high number of illegal immigrants in the country, is compounding the already dire situation of criminality,” Zandile Dubula, executive director of Operation Dudula, said in a short affidavit before the Gauteng High Court.
The Helen Suzman Foundation last year took legal action challenging Motsoaledi’s decision to terminate the ZEP. This case has beenThe ZEP special dispensation offered legal protection to about 178,000 Zimbabwean nationals, allowing them to live, work and study in South Africa. “They will be put to a desperate choice: to remain in South Africa as undocumented migrants, with all the vulnerability that attaches to such status, or return to a Zimbabwe that, to all intents and purposes, is unchanged from the country they fled,” reads a statement issued by the HSF when the legal review was launched.who have been born in South Africa to ZEP holders during this time who have never even visited their parents’ country of origin.
Motsoaledi opposes the HSF’s application. The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa has joined the HSF as a second applicant.
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