THE South African government is expected to deport this weekend 140 Zimbabweans who have finished serving various jail terms for breaking that country's laws.
It is understood that the deportees will arrive in the country in two batches of 70 each by road via Beitbridge border post in trucks under police escort.
Zimbabwe's Consul General to South Africa, Batiraishe Mukonoweshuro, confirmed the exercise to a local publication and said among the 140 were people who had been in jail for between one month and 18 years.
Mukonoweshuro said they were arrested for crimes including murder, armed robberies, theft, fraud, house breaking, poaching, possession of illegal firearms among others.
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