Home Affairs
Home Affairs taken to court over blocked IDs
About 700,000 identity documents are blocked
Law | 18 September 2023
Protest over poor service at Khayelitsha Home Affairs
About 100 people marched in the rain under the banner of #UniteBehind
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
By Tariro Washinyira and Joseph Chirume
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
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”
News | 22 May 2023
Asylum seekers fear arrest as delays mount
People have been struggling to renew their permits at Home Affairs in Musina since 2020
Brief | 20 February 2023
Zimbabweans trying to leave SA not being turned back: Home Affairs explains
The department says people without valid documents are being referred to documentation counters but choose not to go
Brief | 19 September 2022
We travel to Harare with returning Zimbabweans
It’s an unhappy journey marked by xenophobia and an uncertain future
News | 30 August 2022
Government defends its decision to end Zimbabwean permits
Home Affairs files opposing affidavit in ZEP case brought by the Helen Suzman Foundation
Law | 22 August 2022