WATCH: Illegal Zimbabweans show off as they find other routes into South Africa
Undocumented Zimbabwean border-jumpers were captured boasting that they had found alternative means into South Africa through bushes. These routes were primarily used by those who crossed on foot into the neighboring country.
From videos circulating online, cross-border buses are now making use of these bushy routes amid intense clampdown operations by South African officials against undocumented Zimbabweans flocking into that country.
A few weeks ago South Africa introduced hundreds of roadblocks along N1 to intercept undocumented Zimbabweans and other nationals entering the country illegally.
The operation dubbed O Kae Molao has seen more than 80 000 Zimbabweans being turned back enroute South Africa through Beitbridge.
Through a video circulating online, the publication discovered that some main cross-border buses are also taking shortcuts through gravel roads fleeing police-infested main roads.
In the video below, bus conductors from an unidentified bus can be heard praising the driver for speeding through the dust roads.
“We are running away with border-jumpers,” they claimed in Shona language.
Watch the video below:
Zimbabwean cross-border buses boast on finding alternative routes through bushes into South Africa pic.twitter.com/Q2Btrr9HME
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The South African government through its Home Affairs ministry announced late last year, that it was not going to renew the expired special permits issued to Zimbabwe nationals under the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) programme back in 2004.
Despite the growing concerns of being deported back into Zimbabwe anytime this year, millions of permit holders have been given assurance by the South African government that they would not be arrested or deported in the meantime, Home Affairs minister Dr. Aaron Mostoaledi said last Friday.
In other news – Meet the person behind R1.3 million nightclub bill; Passion Java, a Zimbabwean ‘prophet’
If you’ve so much as logged on to a social media site this weekend, then you probably saw the wild antics of partygoers at the 012 Lifestyle venue in Pretoria. A whopping R1.3 million bar bill was racked up – and Passion Java was the man picking up the tab.
Allegedly, Java – who has become a multi-millionaire through his work as an eccentric pastor – was not in attendance on Saturday, but he had no problems with paying the seven-figure sum. Learn More
