{"id":38654,"date":"2023-05-31T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=38654"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T11:31:20","slug":"visa-deadline-looms-for-zimbabweans-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/visa-deadline-looms-for-zimbabweans-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa deadline looms for Zimbabweans in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T<span class=\"sc-gicCDI sc-bZkfAO czqpjL hngCMv sc-jGprRt kRilOd author no-link\">huso Khumalo<\/span><time aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gicCDI sc-bZkfAO czqpjL hngCMv sc-gJwTLC bbQptl teaser-text\">Should they fail with a court challenge to secure their continuous stay in South Africa, thousands of Zimbabwean nationals could be forced to leave the country. Many don&rsquo;t want to return home and start all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 200,000 <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/zimbabwe-frees-over-4000-prisoners-from-cramped-jails\/a-65679554\">\u00a0Zimbabweans<\/a> living in South Africa are waiting with bated breath to hear a court decision on whether they can continue to stay in the country or will be forced to return home.<\/p>\n<p>Those whose Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP)\u00a0have been terminated\u00a0now only have\u00a030 days before the June 30 deadline for them to leave South Africa expires.<\/p>\n<p>But how did this dilemma occur\u00a0in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/visa-deadline-looms-for-zimbabweans-in-south-africa\/a-65784425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/visa-deadline-looms-for-zimbabweans-in-south-africa\/a-65784425<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thuso Khumalo Should they fail with a court challenge to secure their continuous stay in South Africa, thousands of Zimbabwean nationals could be forced to leave the country. Many don&rsquo;t want to return home and start all over again. Almost 200,000 \u00a0Zimbabweans living in South Africa are waiting with bated breath to hear a court [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-afrique-du-sud-2","region-zimbabwe-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-691","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38655,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38654\/revisions\/38655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}