Home Affairs or hell affairs? The department where dreams go to die and that holds up progress in countless ways. Our Home Affairs coverage below sheds light on the real people and issues affected by Home Affairs.
SA’s greenlighted policy attempt to clamp down on immigration seems incoherent and based on faulty reasoning, evoking strong reactions from various civil society groups.
Aaron Motsoaledi says he knows of only five cases at Cape Town International Airport and one that was referred to him by Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille’s office, which suggests the issue is motivated not by the intention to help affected people, but rather to tarnish Home Affairs.
The Foundation opposes bid by Aaron Motsoaledi to overturn high court ruling.
This is former finance minister Trevor Manuel’s keynote address at The Gathering Twenty Twenty-Four.
The National Assembly passed the Electoral Matters Amendment Bill on Tuesday, opening the door to litigation before the crucial general election.
The high court ruled against the minister and he failed in his appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Thousands of people cannot access healthcare or education after Home Affairs decided in 2012 to block their ‘suspicious’ identity documents.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘democracy’s child’ Tintswalo does not live in the same world as ordinary South Africans, say critics, after the President talked up the government’s achievements over the past three decades of ANC rule during his State of the Nation Address 2024.
Many of the evictees slept outside with their belongings, saying they have nowhere else to go.
The Department of Home Affairs is no longer allowed to block South African IDs arbitrarily, cutting citizens and residents off from essential services, following a landmark judgment from the Gauteng high court. Lawyers for Human Rights has welcomed the ruling.
Home Affairs’ proposed withdrawal from international agreements on refugee protection have been flagged as a ‘significant setback’.
Survivors of the fire in August at 80 Albert Street in Johannesburg were on Wednesday evicted from the Hofland Park Recreational Centre, where many had been given shelter by the City of Johannesburg. Most were sent to the Lindela Repatriation Centre, with Home Affairs claiming they were undocumented migrants.
South Africa should withdraw from the United Nations refugee protection regimen — and re-enter with exceptions on refugee rights. That’s because courts have established jurisprudence ‘unfavourable’ to state interests and because of a lack of resources, according to Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Sunday.
Although the high court dismissed the Helen Suzman Foundation’s request for a declarator saying Zimbabwean Extension Permits will remain valid while the minister of home affairs appeals against an earlier ruling, it nevertheless confirmed the permits are valid until June 2024.
This Week, Home Affairs will open its offices on two Saturdays, ahead of the 18-19 Voter Registration Weekend. Join a hybrid seminar on the topic: what are coalition government options for law reform at municipal level? WaterCAN facilitates a meeting to help solve the Joburg water crisis. And it’s the launch of the Zapiro Annual 2023: RamApocalypse Now.
It can take a mere two months to obtain a spousal visa if the foreign spouse of a South African citizen applies from outside the country. However, if they apply from inside South Africa it becomes a waiting game and they cannot leave until the process has been completed.
The Constitutional Court has issued personal cost orders against Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and his director-general Livhuwani Makhode after they repeatedly ignored a court order regarding the detention of undocumented migrants.
About 700,000 identity documents are blocked, yet there is no easy way to lodge an inquiry or start an investigation, according to the Children’s Insitute, an amicus curiae in the matter.
The government is blocking the potential that foreign workers can bring to South Africa’s stagnant economy.
South Africa could drop out from the United Nations refugee convention, while also repealing its domestic refugee, immigration and citizenship laws in efforts to ‘reshape the destiny of our country’, according to an ANC WhatsApp group message making the rounds from Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
A new report on the government’s position on the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits has found that the Department of Home Affairs ‘is pushing people towards undocumented migration by making permits scarcer at a time when people can ill-afford to leave’.
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