Home Affairs

Home Affairs asks UN for help with refugee backlog

Department has to process 150,000 appeals

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News | 16 May 2019

If this is freedom then I don’t want it, says 80-year-old Flagstaff granny

No IDs, so no social grants: family survives off grandmother’s pension

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News | 10 May 2019

Cameroonian refugees in Cape Town can’t get legal status

Home Affairs was ordered by the courts to open a centre over a year ago for new asylum seeker applicants

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News | 2 May 2019

Why a high court dismissed Somali claims for asylum

But Lawyers for Human Rights disagrees with the court’s reasoning and is appealing

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Law | 18 April 2019

“Agents” charge R300 to jump Home Affairs queues

“Come straight to me with the money and you will get inside”

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News | 5 April 2019

Home Affairs tells man to come back with his dead mother

Robert Masuku has been voting since 1994 but is registered as an illegal immigrant

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Brief | 5 March 2019

Blind Zimbabwean loses refugee status after identity muddle

Blessing Marindo has also lost his disability grant and is struggling to make ends meet

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Brief | 28 February 2019

Be patient, Home Affairs tells Zimbabweans awaiting permits

Visa processing company expected to finish its work by end of January

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News | 3 December 2018

Derelict Home Affairs office in Atlantis shut down by Department of Labour

Building, where toilets didn’t work and fire escapes were blocked, was reopened this week

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News | 7 November 2018

Home Affairs official told 86-year-old “to go back to Lesotho”

Mathabo Mofokeng could not access her pension without her ID

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Brief | 1 October 2018

Pay R4 if you want to use the toilet at Home Affairs

Security guards at Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape demand money from people who need the toilet

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Brief | 24 September 2018

Home Affairs taking nine months to process permits for Zimbabweans

Some Zimbabweans who applied last year are still waiting as September deadline looms for ZEP permits

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News | 14 September 2018

Little improvement at Home Affairs office despite Malusi Gigaba’s promises

People arrive hours before opening time and still queue for hours after the Pietermaritzburg office opens

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Brief | 18 July 2018

No security at Home Affairs

Foreshore office even more chaotic than usual

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News | 25 May 2018

Woman had to buy fake permit to get child into school

No place at school without a study permit, but no study permit without a place in school, complain Zimbabwean parents

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News | 10 May 2018

Refugee organisations take Home Affairs to court for defying judges

More than a month after the deadline, still no fully functioning refugee centre in Cape Town

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News | 10 May 2018