The new law, which was expected to come into effect with President Jacob Zuma’s first day in office for his second term on Monday, will hit Zimbabweans hard as they continue to cross the border, mainly in search of work. It is also likely to affect the estimated three million already living in SA.
“Not enough time was provided for public comment and not enough planning seems to have gone into training Home Affairs’ officials and preparing the public for these changes,” said Initiate Immigration.
The organisation accused the DHA of implementing the new law without sufficient notice. “It has been virtually impossible to prepare clients and their visa applications in terms of the new laws. This is made more difficult by the fact that some structures proposed in the new regulations have not been made public.
“The new critical skills list, for example, has not been published, the new requirement from the Department of Labour for General Work Visas have not been made clear, new investment amounts for Business Visas or Retired Visas have not been communicated to the public and Corporate Visa requirements remain counter-intuitive,” it said.
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Okay, so what. They will always need foreigners to do some work be it special skills or not
Dhonhodzo, will they? Lets be fair to the unemployed SOUTH AFRICANS. Why should our Zimbabwean farm workers, domestic workers. office cleaners, teachers, lawyers, accountants etc etc take jobs that the UNEMPLOYED South African people should have, even if the Government has to set up Technical Institutes to retrain them to be able to be gainfully employed?
Surely our own people should return home to start rebuilding our country after 15 years of disastrous economic management by the current Government. Should we not be coming home, putting our shoulder to the wheel and FIX what has gone wrong?
The govt of Zimbabwe is not ready to accommodate the exiles as there is still repressive laws that are counter productive. Some of us run business ventures in South Africa that would require large sums in terms of licences in Zimbabwe yet in South Africa we are exempted