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Source: by Staff reporter - www.bulawayo24.com, 28/08/2015

The South African Department of Home Affairs says it has adjudicated
99.7% of the applications for special permits by Zimbabweans ahead of
a collection deadline of the end of September.

Zimbabweans working, studying or running businesses in South Africa
are required to have the permits and from the end of next month those
without a permit or a regular visa will be deported.

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba told reporters this week that the
bulk of remaining work for the dispatch of outstanding certificates
was administrative. Almost 210,000 applications were received before
the 31 December cut-off date. He said DHA had rejected 12,228, or
6.2%, of the applications and approved 185,075, or 93.8%.

The special permit was intended to ease the considerable pressure on
the asylum system and general visa system. It followed the 2009
issuance of 245,000 special permits, which allowed Zimbabweans already
in South Africa who did not have visas to stay and work.

Illegal immigrants do not qualify for the permits, although there are
continued estimates of thousands of undocumented economic migrants
flooding across the Limpopo from Zimbabwe. Following violence-tainted
elections in 2008, hyperinflation and land grabs that all but ended
foreign investment, Zimbabwe plunged into an economic recession that
has pushed unemployment beyond 90%.

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