Zimbabwe: Workers sent home

  1. Posted on Tuesday 28 April 2009 - 10:59
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    Bruce Sibanda, AfricaNews reporter in Harare, Zimbabwe Photo: ROHR Zimbabwe
    The International Organization for Migration (IOM) at Beitbridge Border Post in Zimbabwe has reportedly sent employees on unplanned leave following sharp reduction in the number of Zimbabweans deported from South Africa.
    Zimbabwe_Photo: ROHR Zimbabwe
    According to a weekly publication based in Southern part of Zimbabwe - Sunday News -due to reduction in the number of deportees, the organization is now concentrating on various projects it had not been paying much attention to.

    Workers say they are now concentrating on outreach programmes, information dissemination to the communities and mobile populations, raising awareness and updates on HIV and AIDS, safe migration, cholera and human trafficking.

    The information officer at the head office in Harare, Ms Erin Forster could not disclose any figures. “We have not asked anyone to take a break and we are still maintaining the normal system in Beitbridge,’’ she is quoted saying.

    South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has introduced a permit that could regularize the status of thousands of undocumented migrants and put an end to the mass deportations that were carried out regularly.
    AfricaNews reporter said in the past as high as 3000 Zimbabweans where deported from South Africa but most return within days.

    The special permit will grant thousands of people, including Zimbabweans, the right to live and work in South Africa and access health care and education for an initial period of at least six months.

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