Come Home to Zimbabwe

The UK Minister of State for  Borders and Immigration, Phil Woolas, announced recently that he was considering the position of enforced returns to Zimbabwe – an issue under review since the Home Office deferred enforced returns to Zimbabwe in September 2006, following a moratorium enforced through the courts. Taken from the www.ZimDiaspora.com website is an angry comment by one of our brothers, who writes his own reply to the House of Lords, regarding the plight of Zimbabwean Refugees in the... more

Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN Zimbabwean migrants que to get into South Africa JOHANNESBURG, 27 August 2009 (IRIN) – A new labour migration centre at the Beitbridge border crossing between Zimbabwe and South Africa will be the first step in implementing an agreement between the governments of Zimbabwe and South Africa to reduce irregular migration and promote safe, legal migration options. The new centre, run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), was opened on... more

From MDC communiqué, The Changing Times, 21 August 209 The Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Morgan Tsvangirai will review the controversial law that was used to strip thousands of people of their citizenship and right to vote because they were once citizens of other countries or because their parents were once foreigners. The Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s office, Hon. Gorden Moyo, said the Prime Minister’s office was working on a policy document on the citizenship law that will... more

From AFP – 3rd August 2009 JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai got a warm reception on Saturday in Johannesburg as he appealed to exiled Zimbabweans to invest in and return to their country. “The reconstruction cannot be done by government alone, by people in Zimbabwe alone,” he said at a rally of about 300 Zimbabweans singing protest songs and greeting his speech with cheers, claps and whistles. “You and everyone else will have to play their... more

Currently Zimbabweans lose their rights to vote if they stay outside their constituency for more than two years, and therefore have to travel home to re-register if they want to vote. The estimated three million citizens outside the country obviously represent a formidable voting bloc. The feeling among Zimbabweans all over the world is that the Diaspora should be allowed to cast their votes in general elections from outside the country. Or at the very least, citizens should be allowed to participate... more

At the top of the Home Page you will see a new section entitled “Job Offers in Zimbabwe”. This information has been supplied courtesy of the NGO Network website, Kubatana.net. Some of the jobs have an application deadline which is coming up very soon; so please check out the vacancies asap, read the requirements carefully and if you qualify, go for it! Good luck The Come Home Team  Read More →

The Zimbabwe Independent, Thursday, 09 July 2009 MORE than eight in every 10 formally employed workers in Zimbabwe will not encourage their relatives in the Diaspora to come back home despite being relatively optimistic of the inclusive government formed in February. An employee confidence survey carried by Industrial Psychology Consultants, a human resources think tank in June shows that 83% of workers in the survey sample – drawn from industry and commerce -would advise their relatives... more

Friday, 08 May 2009 From The ZimDiaspora.com THE Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called upon the Government and the private sector to embark on programmes that facilitate the formulation of strategies to lure back skilled Zimbabweans who had left the country as a result of the economic meltdown. He also called on trade unions to encourage their members to effectively apply themselves in the workplace in order to ensure sustainable productivity that would help in the turn-around of the... more

From The Zimbabwe Standard – by Ndamu Sandu, Saturday, 11 April 2009 15:27 ZIMBABWE’S month-on-month inflation for March decreased by 0.1 percentage points to -3% in March, the Central Statistical Office (CSO) said on Thursday. The development, raised optimism the country is on its way out of the woods. In February the month-on-month inflation stood at -3.1%. “This means that prices measured by all the items in the CPI decreased by an average 3.0%,” CSO said. CSO said the Consumer Price... more

Current Immigration Regulations in Zimbabwe for Permanent Residents, Returning Residents and Non-Citizens. Follow this link to download the file (PDF – 212k).  Read More →