The South African government will demand restitution of the approximately three and a half million rands spent on the rescue mission of illegal miners in Stilfontein, in the North West province. The South African Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Matsanshe, denied that the Stilfontein mine is abandoned, because, he said, the owners exist and...
A total of nine hundred and nineteen Mozambicans are among the 1,400 illegal miners arrested in South Africa's North West province. They were arrested during a rescue operation by the South African police at the abandoned Stilfontein mine in North West province. According to Rádio Moçambique, the information was...
Seven refugees of Congolese nationality have been arrested on suspicion of illegal exploitation of mineral resources in the districts of Gilé and Mocuba, Zambezia province. Quoted by Radio Mocambique, Reginaldo Massorongo, spokesman for the provincial Migration Directorate in Zambézia, said that they were Congolese refugees who had presented legal documents to enter the country. "From the reality that...
Around 4,000 illegal miners, 700 of whom are Mozambican, are trapped more than 2,000 meters underground in an abandoned mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa's North West province. According to Rádio Moçambique, the illegal miners were trapped when they broke into an abandoned gold mine...
Fifty-nine foreign citizens who were residing illegally in Manica province were questioned last September as part of the migration authorities' enforcement campaign. Of this number, five were repatriated to their countries of origin and the rest were fined, according to Rádio Moçambique. The spokesman...
Last Friday (02) in Maputo, the Secretary of State for Technical and Vocational Education acknowledged the existence of vocational education institutions that continue to operate illegally in the country. According to Mety Gondola, who was speaking as part of the process of regularizing technical-vocational education institutions in the country, these institutions teach medium and short courses....
Around 500 illegal immigrants have been repatriated to their countries of origin since January, in various border districts of Tete province. The majority are Ethiopian, Bangladeshi, Congolese and Somali nationals, as well as Zambian, Zimbabwean and Malawian nationals, who entered the country with the intention of arriving in...
Zimbabwe demanded on Wednesday that the United States lift "illegal" economic sanctions against the country, saying the new targeted measures against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and top leaders were merely "stopgap measures". Washington has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe since the early 2000s, with former US president George W....
Undocumented Mozambican immigrants are on the list of priorities for both governments, said a counselor at the Mozambican embassy in South Africa. Quoted by O Pais, Helena Gune acknowledges that the issue is not easy to resolve, but guarantees that it is being dealt with by both governments. It should be noted that as a way of...
The Tax Authority (AT) in the Chokwé district, in Gaza province, has fined 196 drivers of vehicles with illegal foreign license plates this year, according to delegate Estrela Cossa. The vehicles were circulating in the territory without the owners having paid the customs duties and taxes. As a result, the AT collected...