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By News24.com

SOUTH AFRICA: The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) launched legal action to challenge Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s decision to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP).

The ZEP, which ended on 31 December 2021, will not be extended.

Those with a permit have a 12-month grace period to either apply for another type of permit or leave the country.

Motsoaledi’s decision was supported by Cabinet.

VOA

THE Zimbabwean government says it is worried about the current situation in South Africa, where its citizens are being harassed, removed from houses and marketplaces by members of the organisation using the codename Operation Dudula.

In a statement, the Zimbabwe Embassy in Pretoria said it’s worried about reports that undocumented Zimbabweans should leave the country as soon as possible or risk being forced to go back home.

By dailymail.co.uk

TimesLIVE

EFF leader Julius Malema has appealed to employers to give South Africans preference as the country faces an all-time high youth unemployment rate of 66.5%.

“We want to make an emphasis to the owners of restaurants that no-one should stop employing Zimbabweans and say the EFF said they don’t want them,” he said on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter

UNITED KINGDOM (UK) House of Lords MPs say Zimbabweans living in that country should be allowed to stage peaceful demonstrations at the Zimbabwe Embassy in London to make the life of diplomats at the high commission “uneasy”.

The MPs made the call Monday during a debate on removing the UK’s Constitution Clause 56 subsection, which deals on the imposition on public processions conditions related to making noise.

Fin24

ZIMBABWEAN companies have until the end of this year to declare sales undertaken in foreign currency or risk rigorous audits and hefty fines – as dollarisation, which remains unmatched by foreign currency tax collections, intensifies across the economy.

The local unit of exchange, the Zim dollar, has continued to struggle on official and parallel currency markets, prompting traders to push for sales in hard currency.

The Washington Post

TAKUNDA Rusike has long been familiar with rugby. She learned about the sport through her cousins and uncles who played in Zimbabwe, including one uncle who represented the national team.

It wasn’t until she was a junior in high school, though, that Rusike began to play herself, joining a club team after her field hockey coach suggested her physicality would be less proscribed in rugby.

By Alois Vinga

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has ordered banks and other financial services providers to immediately freeze accounts belonging to 30 nationals who are ring leaders of parallel market foreign currency dealers destabilising the economy.

In a recent update RBZ governor, John Mangudya said the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) had identified the individuals listed hereunder who are abusing mobile telecommunications services and other social media platforms to facilitate illegal foreign exchange transactions.

By Anna Chibamu

OUTSPOKEN Chimurenga music guru Thomas ‘Mukanya’ Mapfumo says he misses Zimbabwe dearly and is considering visiting his home country after his upcoming musical tour in neighbouring South Africa slated for November.

In an interview with NewZimbabwe.com Friday, Mukanya, as he is popularly known, went into self-imposed exile in the United States (US) in the early 2000s.

Telegraph and Argus/Staff Reporter

A BRADFORD (UK) resident who was recently deported from the United Kingdom was reportedly attacked in Harare while getting some food.

Mpofu’s best friend, John Priestley informed The Telegraph and Argus that Bruce was attacked whilst getting some food from a shop Monday evening.

It is not clear where the attack happened and whether he reported the matter to the police.