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Home Affairs increases staff at border with Zimbabwe

Source: The Citizen, 28/07/2018

The move comes as thousands of Zimbabweans are expected to make their
way to their home country ahead of Monday elections.
The department of home affairs has increased staff at the Beitbridge
border post in anticipation of a high number of Zimbabweans travelling
home ahead of the neighbouring countryâ€™s national elections.
â€An additional 37 officials have been deployed to Beitbridge from 26
July to 3 August 2018 to beef up existing human resource capacity.
This comes within the context of the determination and commitment of
the department to ensure delivery of professional immigration services
as part of our responsibility to facilitate movement of people, goods
and services smoothly during this period,â€ the department said on Friday.
Zimbabweans are expected to head to the polls on Monday, to vote for a
new leadership in the post-Robert Mugabe era. The forerunners in the
race are Zanu-PFâ€™s Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelson
Chamisa.

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