Home Affairs

Children of immigrants must be in school, says Minister of Home Affairs

“Send them to school. We’ll look at the documentation later”

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News | 23 October 2019

SASSA and Home Affairs offices stand empty

Offices unstaffed in Maqongqo, Pietermaritzburg

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Brief | 22 October 2019

Concourt judgment will help keep families together

Foreign nationals with South African or permanent resident spouses do not have to leave the country to apply for spousal visas

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Law | 8 August 2019

Home Affairs misses deadline for Cape Town refugee office, says LRC

“The non-responsiveness by Home Affairs left no room for us to engage with them”

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News | 9 July 2019

Gogo’s 20 year battle to change an error on her ID

Home Affairs is now investigating the matter

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Brief | 31 May 2019

Eastern Cape family’s looooong battle to get a correct ID

According to Masibulele Soboyisi’s ID he was too young to write matric, so he can’t get his results

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News | 24 May 2019

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