JOHANNESBURG– CoRMSA expresses its concern over a march that was organized on 3rd November in Johannesburg by a group of local business owners from Ekurhuleni. Local small business owners, religious groups, and residents from Ekurhuleni marched yesterday in Johannesburg against foreign nationals running businesses in their townships threatening that violence would erupt if their demands [...]
Written on November 8, 2011 | Posted in
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The Wits Law Clinic has successfully managed to obtain travel documents for two clients through a court case taken against the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). Attorney Daven Dass from the Wits Law Clinic is now liaising with CoRMSA to encourage other refugees to make an application for this document. This is extremely important in [...]
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The Department of Home Affairs has quietly lifted the moratorium on the deportation of Zimbabwean nationals. Deportation of undocumented Zimbabweans resumed last week with many reports of arrests across the country. Victims of deportations include Zimbabwean nationals who do not have an asylum status in South Africa and those who failed to apply for permits [...]
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Background of ZDP: 3 categories of permits were considered by the Department: - Business Permits - Study Permits - Work Permits Relaxed requirements and shortened process were implemented in December 2010 to document Zimbabweans with a target date of 31 December 2011 for receiving applications. These relaxed requirements allowed for the applications to be submitted [...]
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Concerned about mass deportations of Zimbabwean nationals, CoRMSA has created a new group (Emergency Reports During Deportations) on SA Emergency website in order to monitor deportations. CoRMSA is therefore encouraging all the network members, partners and any other concerned parties to actively post their comments on any irregularities noticed during deportations. Monitoring deportations: 1. What [...]
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The Admissions Coordinator at the Department of Education (DoE) called a Principals meeting on July 28 to discuss on how admissions into public ordinary schools for 2012 school year could be managed. The purpose of the meeting was to determine the process of registration, re-registration and late registration for admissions into public schools. It was [...]
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The department had announced in February this year, following consultations with the Zimbabwean government that the adjudication of permits from undocumented Zimbabwean nationals will be finalised by the end of July 2011. At the end of December 2010 we had received 275 762 applications for documents. With a week to go, we are firmly on [...]
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The Gauteng schools admission process for 2012 will open on 1 August 2011 and close on 30 September 2011. The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has released Admission Circular 5/2011 and will be available on the GDE website. The GDE encourages parents to apply as soon as the admission process is opened because of demand [...]
Written on July 18, 2011 | Posted in
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CoRMSA would like to once again inform all refugees and asylum seekers who were reporting at Crown Mines (Johannesburg) Refugee Office that this office was closed on 1st June and moved to Pretoria Showgrounds. For the extension or renewal of your statuses and temporary asylum permits, and other related services please use the following address: [...]
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The Department of Home Affairs issued a statement on Sunday, 3 July 2011 appealing to Zimbabwean nationals who submitted applications for work, business and study permits, to respond to sms messages requesting the submission of outstanding documents required to finalise their applications. Please open the following link for more details. http://www.info.gov.za/speech/DynamicAction?pageid=461&sid=19668&tid=36459 For inquiries please call [...]
Written on July 8, 2011 | Posted in
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