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SA Home Affairs Minister Announces Changes To Expedite Work Permits For ZEP Holders

7 months agoWed, 14 Aug 2024 09:29:58 GMT

SA Home Affairs Minister Announces Changes To Expedite Work Permits For ZEP Holders

South Africa’s current Minister of Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, has announced a new technical directive intended to expedite the work permit application process for Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders.

In 2022, the then-Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, introduced a waiver allowing ZEP holders to apply for mainstream work visas without first securing certifications from the Department of Labour and the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA).

This waiver was aimed at facilitating a smoother transition for ZEP holders as the exemption programme was set to be phased out.

However, Schreiber has acknowledged that the waiver for the SAQA certificate requirement was mistakenly omitted from the notifications sent to ZEP holders at the time.

To rectify this, the necessary amendment was officially published last Wednesday. Said Schreiber:

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This defeated the purpose of the waiver, as it created a bottleneck with home affairs officials unsure of how to process the applications.
A legal opinion further confirmed that this oversight needed to be corrected through a technical amendment issued via a circular.
Thanks to this correction, we hope to speed up the process of migrating away from the ZEP towards mainstream work visas for applicants who contribute to the economy and qualify in terms of the law.
It should be noted that the waiver only enables ZEP holders to submit applications more speedily and does not influence the subsequent outcome of any application.
All relevant criteria must still be met for a specific application to be successful.

Schreiber also said the substantial backlog of visa applications, which stood at 306,000 at the end of May.

To address this, the department’s “backlog team” is now working in two daily shifts to mitigate the delays.

Currently, about 178,000 ZEP holders, who are authorised to live and work in South Africa, face a looming deadline as their permits are set to expire by 2025.

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11 Comments

Jah🇿🇼Tsvarie-07 · 7 months ago

Inyaya yekuti pafa munhu hapashaikwe Foreigner 😀😀😀

Ndega mbune · 7 months ago

Ini chinondi shamisa nde ichi, ma foreigners ari jozi vachena, makula, mamexicans, ma Arabs, ma Asian havashungurudzwe in fact havato batwi kupfura ma Zimbo Zimba ririmu nhamo ku jozi veduwee

👀👀 · 7 months ago

maybe inyaya yekuti maZimba ndiwo akawandisa,kuThembisa,kuAlex ,kunyanya ku Brakpan kwakatoitwa invasion chaiyo nemaZimba,ngatingotii muSA ma foreigners akawandisa maZimba

Patz · 7 months ago

@ Ndega mbune Avo vachena, makula anenge awe ma citizens of S.A just like varungu, maIndia etc arimuno muZim vatori neZim zvitupa. Ariko futi ku S.A maZimbo macitizens asinganetswi. Most of Zimbos in S.A vane ma permit ano expire. Vazhinji vanongoti vachifudza momber otosiya oto crosser Limpopo atoo muS.A asina kana bepa. Plus most whites dont behave like blacks ukatoona ari mune imwe nyika it will be legal

Si**** · 7 months ago

Minister avo brain dzavo tingadzifananidze nafelix mhona here

Patz · 7 months ago

Haiwawo vana Mhona marara ayo. Munhu anongoti sentence yese yaataura anongoti visionary leadership of our President.... meaning iye hapana zvaanombofungawo ega or its bootlicking in overdrive

Patz · 7 months ago

Once in power whites seem to serve and full of optimism for the good of the populace and blacks seem supress and full of pessimism to the misery of the populace. Motsoaledi and Schreiber is another example of how a blackman is different from a whiteman. In reality a blackman is a worst colonizer of another blackman than a whiteman

Luckmore Robert · 7 months ago

that's very true

...,. · 7 months ago

the problem with us blacks, is that we get into politics looking for money and power and spend a lot of time and money to stay in the position without doing the necessary or expected performance. a small network of such "powerful" members of parliament and ministers is sufficient to cow the whole nation into not querying, as the citizens will be ignored. it is interesting to note that our fellow black MPs and ministers in South Africa will wake up to reality when they see the white members perform with truth and integrity and not in collusion to short-change the electorate.

Anonymous · 7 months ago

Unless they look to sabotage the progress to hide their ineptitude. There are some good MPs in South Africa, it is a question as to whether they are allowed to deliver.