Home Affairs

Nationwide Home Affairs failure as new year begins

Thousands of people across the country unable to access government services

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News | 4 January 2024

Constitutional Court win for asylum seekers

Provisions in the Refugees Act introduced in January 2020 struck down for violating a number of fundamental rights

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Law | 12 December 2023

Two-year extension for Zimbabwe and Lesotho permit holders

New permits to be issued to the approximately 233,000 existing permit holders

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Brief | 1 December 2023

Zimbabwe permit application dismissed: no need for it, say judges

Permit holders protected until at least June 2024

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Law | 7 November 2023

Concourt slaps Home Affairs minister with personal cost order

Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and Director-General Livhuwani Makhode must pay from their own pockets part of legal costs for Lawyers For Human Rights

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Law | 30 October 2023

Home Affairs taken to court over blocked IDs

About 700,000 identity documents are blocked

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Law | 18 September 2023

Protest over poor service at Khayelitsha Home Affairs

About 100 people marched in the rain under the banner of #UniteBehind

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Brief | 22 August 2023

Refugees face “no hope” service from Home Affairs

Dozens queue, but the reception office in Gqeberha only serves 15 asylum seekers a day

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News | 12 July 2023

Lost citizens welcomed back by Supreme Court of Appeal

The automatic loss of South African citizenship after gaining citizenship of another country has been ruled to be unconstitutional

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News | 14 June 2023

Motsoaledi rubbishes Dr Nandipha’s court bid to have her arrest in Tanzania declared “unlawful”

Thabo Bester finally added to Home Affairs’s data system after three decades as “an unidentifiable person”

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News | 22 May 2023