{"id":12612,"date":"2025-10-08T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-issues-immigration-directive-to-extend-validity-of-zimbabwean-exemption-permit\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:54","slug":"sa-issues-immigration-directive-to-extend-validity-of-zimbabwean-exemption-permit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-issues-immigration-directive-to-extend-validity-of-zimbabwean-exemption-permit\/","title":{"rendered":"SA issues immigration directive to extend validity of Zimbabwean Exemption Permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s (SA) Home Affairs Minister, Dr Leon Schreiber has issued an immigration directive that extends the validity of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) until 28 May 2027.<\/p>\n<p>They stated that the permit, which allows approximately 178 000 Zimbabweans to live, work and study in SA lawfully, was set to expire on the 28th of November 2025.<br \/>\nHowever, a successful court challenge against the termination of the ZEP placed the permit&#8217;s future squarely in Schreiber&#8217;s hands and directed that any decision about the permit must be preceded by a rational, constitutionally fair process.<br \/>\nSchreiber, however, confirms in the directive that the consultation process is still ongoing.<br \/>\nThis latest directive protects any holder of the permit from being arrested, ordered to depart or be detained for the purposes of deportation, for any reason related to him or her not having any valid exemption permit.<br \/>\n&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z4_9IFFX3F4?si=VWbVQJHlTsClZCOo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12613,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-12612","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA Home Affairs has issued immigration directive||SA Home Affairs has issued immigration directive","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18136,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12612\/revisions\/18136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}