Zimbabwe to welcome expats impacted by expired permits

Zimbabwe’s Minister of Foreign Affairs & International Trade, Frederick Shava, said his government was ready to welcome back its citizens who have lived in SA under the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP), reports IoL. ‘The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit will expire at the end of this year. Its expiry is naturally causing much anxiety to the holders of this permit,’ Shava said in his opening remarks while co-chairing the mid-term review of the Bi-National Commission with International Relations & Co-operation Minister Naledi Pandor. ‘Our two governments must work closely in the implementation of this decision. We are ready to receive our nationals back home,’ he said. Numerous Zimbabweans living in SA are in limbo after the SA Government announced that it would not be extending the ZEP, which ended on 31 December 2021.