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STATUS BARRED DRIVERS
The forum asked to be allowed to join the court case, arguing that the extension of the ZEP “… contributed to the proliferation of illegal, undocumented drivers in the trucking industry in the Republic”.
The Truck Drivers Forum was successful, but Operation Dudula was not.
Operation Dudula and the All Truck Drivers Forum and Allied South Africa then asked to be allowed to intervene in the application. The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa has joined the HSF as a second applicant. Motsoaledi opposes the HSF’s application. In September 2022, Motsoaledi published a notice stating that a “grace period” would be introduced and remain in effect until 30 June 2023. “There are thousands of children who have been born in South Africa to ZEP holders during this time who have never even visited their parents’ country of origin.” “They (holders of ZEPs) will be put to a desperate choice: to remain in South Africa as undocumented migrants, with all the vulnerability that attaches to such status, or return to a Zimbabwe that, to all intents and purposes, is unchanged from the country they fled,” reads a statement issued by the HSF when the legal review was launched. In their court papers, the HSF objects to the lack of notification and public consultation before Motsoaledi announced in November 2021 that the ZEP would be terminated. In one form or another, permits for Zimbabweans choosing to live in South Africa have been in place since 2009.
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