Around 574 Zimbabwean immigrants are also being deported from the Lindela Repatriation Centre.

Bishop Paul Verryn (top) blesses Zimbabwean immigrants at a church in Johannesburg July 26, 2007.

There are at least 200,000 Zimbabwean immigrants in SA, who were mostly given special four-year permits in 2010.

Zimbabwean immigrants wait to be deported from the Lindela Repatriation Centre outside Johannesburg in this August 22, 2007 file photo.