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Motsoaledi says children of migrants should be in school

Source: groundup, 23/10/2019

`Send them to school â€¦ We`ll look at the documentation later.`
He was speaking to GroundUp after briefing a joint meeting of the
portfolio committees on Home Affairs and Cooperative Governance and
Traditional Affairs on Tuesday.
Motsoaledi told GroundUp that the three special permits which were
issued to legalise the status of nationals from Lesotho, Zimbabwe and
Angolans already living in South Africa, would be renewed.
`The Lesotho permit is expiring in December. I am already in the
process of renewing it,` said Motsoaledi. `We can`t stop those
special permits if the problems that led to those special permits are
not yet resolved.
`Unfortunately the Zimbabwean permit was for four years and the
situation never became normal in those four years. We will renew, but
we can`t automatically as the department. We have got to discuss with
the Cabinet.`
`The issue of migration is not purely a problem of home affairs as
the mayor of Johannesburg would like people to believe,` said
Motsoaledi. `It talks to many government departments because it talks
to economy; it talks to job creation; it talks to inequality; it
talks to unemployment â€` all those issues cannot be resolved by one
department which is called home affairs.
`We have accepted long ago that our borders are porous. We have
presented to Parliament before that we are going to spruce up the
Border Management Authority. We want to bring that forward,` he said.
In 2009, the South African government introduced a Dispensation of
Zimbabwean Permit (DZP) to legalise the many Zimbabweans already
inside the country because of the political and socio-economic
situation there.
In 2014, the DZP was renewed and renamed ZSP (Zimbabwean Special
Permit), which expired in December 2017. The ZSP was replaced with
the ZEP (Zimbabwe Exemption Permit), which will expire in 2021.
The ZEP entitles the holder to study or conduct employment but does
not entitle the holder to the right to apply for permanent residence,
irrespective of the period of stay in South Africa.
A similar dispensation was extended to nationals from Lesotho and
Angola.
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