{"id":3134,"date":"2014-06-24T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2014-06-24T21:43:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:43:14","slug":"zimbabwean-permit-holders-not-to-panic-mkuseli-apleni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwean-permit-holders-not-to-panic-mkuseli-apleni\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean permit holders not to panic: Mkuseli Apleni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has advised Zimbabwean nationals who were given permits in 2010 under the Dispensation for Zimbabweans programme to \u2018wait patiently and with no panic\u2019 as Pretoria moves to review the process ahead of the expiry of the documents.<\/p>\n<p>In March the South African government decided on a process to review the dispensation and since then panic has seized the Zimbabwean refugees who fear that they may be returned to their still unstable country. With some of the permits having already started to expire, the exiles are busy lobbying for the revalidation of the documents<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Home Affairs Director General Mkuseli Apleni used the UN World Refugee Day commemoration to assure Zimbabweans that Pretoria remains committed to \u2018securing the legal protection of refugees.\u2019 He said: \u2018South Africa subscribes to the principle that refuges may not be returned, directly or indirectly, to countries where they risk persecution.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Apleni\u2019s assurances came as Harare was reportedly keen to meet Pretoria to discuss the \u2018possible renewal of permits.\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/nehandaradio.com\/2014\/06\/23\/sa-advises-zimbabwean-permit-holders-patient\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has advised Zimbabwean nationals who were given permits in 2010 under the Dispensation for Zimbabweans programme to \u2018wait patiently and with no panic\u2019 as Pretoria moves to review the process ahead of the expiry of the documents. In March the South African government decided on a process to review the dispensation and since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,1590,1594,1592,257,1591,254,4693,1593,4686,421,1589,1482],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dispensation-for-zimbabweans-programme","tag-legal-protection-of-refugees","tag-mkuseli-apleni","tag-news","tag-returned-to-their-still-unstable-country","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-un-world-refugee-day","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwean-nationals-who-were-given-permits","tag-zimbabwean-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}