In 2021, Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced that the special permit that was first introduced more than a decade ago, would be terminated.
The Pretoria High Court has declared Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s decision to discontinue the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) unconstitutional and invalid.
In 2021, Motsoaledi announced that the special permit – which was first introduced more than a decade ago – would be terminated.
This prompted court challenges from various civil society organisations including the Helen Suzman Foundation and the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa.
On Wednesday, the court ruled in their favour finding, among others, that proper public consultation didn’t take place before the decision was made.
The court also granted the Zimbabwe Immigration Federation – another organisation that has challenged the move – an interim interdict preventing ZEP holders from being arrested or deported for now.
In Other News – Keyshia Cole opens up about her marriage
Keyshia Cole is an open book when it comes to love and heartbreak. The award-winning singer, 41, who just made her acting debut playing herself in Lifetime’s new biopic Keyshia Cole: This Is My Story, has been through numerous trials in her personal life as evidenced in the new film. Those struggles include a heartbreaking split from her first husband former NBA player Daniel Gibson.
The “Love” singer and Gibson got married in 2011 and welcomed a son, DJ, now 13, together. In the new film, the pair start off in a blissful relationship before infidelity enters the picture. According to Cole, her son is what kept her in the relationship for so long.
“That was a lot of the reason why I didn’t get a divorce through all the cheating,” she tells PEOPLE of finally ending their marriage in 2017, “because it was like, I just want to do it for my kid, you know what I’m saying? Like, ‘Can he have two parents in the same home?’” read more…
