The Insider

No need for Zimbos in South Africa to panic- Pretoria says- Zimbabweans who obtained work permits under the Special Dispensation programme in South Africa in 2009 do not need to panic. Pretoria has no intention of reversing the benefits of the dispensation. A statement by the Department of Home Affairs today said that the programme which allowed close to 250 000 Zimbabweans to be regularised had enhanced national security and the management of migration, It had also helped to mitigate widespread abuse of Zimbabweans illegally in the country by corrupt employers and officials. “It is not South Africa’s intention to reverse the benefits of the dispensation,” the statement said.

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Mugabe is big news. He sells. And some of us have made a living writing about him. Thirty-four years is no joke. But sometimes, I wonder how we, journalists, think.

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Zimbabwe has tourism police officers who should wear bibs written “ZRP Tourism Policeman” and they are there to make sure that tourists are treated nicely, the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi said last week.

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Outspoken Bulawayo East Member of Parliament and feminist Thabitha Khumalo has challenged men who are raping minors to look for their peers, like her and challenged them to try her if they were man enough.

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Police have no right to drive off vehicles impounded by the municipal police when they are working together and any officer who does so does it on his own behalf and not the Zimbabwe Republic Police, the Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi said on Thursday.

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The Guardian Council of the Movement for Democratic Change, which is supposed to be the advisory body of the party met for two days this week, but there is now confusion about the decisions it reached.

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