Zimbabwe: SA Home Affairs considers residence permits for refugees

In a tacit admission that the Zimbabwean crisis has gone out of hand, South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister broke new policy ground by saying they were considering issuing temporary residence permits for those who had fled the country. On Tuesday Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is reported to have said the government needed to adopt a new approach to deal with Zimbabwean citizens flocking into South Africa and that allowing them to work until the political problems had been resolved was a possibility.