Topic: Immigration

Call to scrap passports between Lesotho and SA

Lesotho’s opposition Basotho Action Party has launched a campaign to ease cross-border travel using national identity cards

By Sechaba Mokhethi

News | 23 October 2025

Death toll rises from Makhado bus crash

Relatives gather to identify the bodies of the dead

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 21 October 2025

Law clinics flooded as Home Affairs blocks asylum seekers from the system

Refugee offices are still not processing new applications unless immigrants have a transit visa, despite a court ruling that this is unconstitutional

By Zora Hollie

News | 15 October 2025

Eviction case for hundreds of refugees to be heard in April

Government has spent millions on Wingfield and Paint City camps since 2020

By Matthew Hirsch

Brief | 13 October 2025

Lesotho permit: A lifeline for Basotho workers facing collapse of textile industry

Announcement comes weeks after hundreds of undocumented workers were arrested in SA

By Sechaba Mokhethi

News | 11 October 2025

Zimbabwe and Lesotho permits extended to May 2027

Helen Suzman Foundation urges Home Affairs minister to fast-track talks with the public over the future of the permits

By Joseph Chirume

Brief | 9 October 2025

Lesufi’s office fails to back up his claim about immigrants

The Gauteng Premier vowed to destroy informal settlements, claiming that most of their residents are undocumented immigrants

By Joseph Bracken

News | 11 September 2025

Eviction hearing looms for refugees in Bellville camp

The refugees have rejected repatriation to home countries or returning to South African communities

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 15 August 2025

After a decades-long struggle and a court order, Primrose Modisane finally has a birth certificate

Stateless since birth, she was called a “border hopper” by Home Affairs officials

By Tania Broughton

Law | 5 August 2025

Operation Dudula faces off against human rights organisations in “misguided” protest

Anti-immigration group wants to close down “unpatriotic” organisations

By Jan Bornman

News | 17 July 2025

City of Cape Town to evict refugees living at two emergency housing sites

About 160 refugees at Wingfield were among those who protested outside the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2019

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 8 July 2025

A taste of Somalia on the streets of Joburg

We visited a Somali-owned coffee shop in Mayfair which serves qaxwo and other Somali treats

Text by Jan Bornman. Photos by Ihsaan Haffejee.

News | 24 June 2025

New border control plan could harm asylum seekers, say critics

The One-Stop Border Post Bill aims to speed up trade and travel, but critics say protection for immigrants is inadequate

By Jan Bornman

News | 11 June 2025

New Zimbabwe permit court showdown looming

At the heart of the matter is the question of whether the minister or Parliament can change the status of the permit

By Tania Broughton

Law | 7 June 2025

Judge slams Home Affairs for “unintelligible, illogical babble” in gay case

Immigration official rejected the asylum application of a man from Chad who was imprisoned solely for homosexuality

By Tania Broughton

Law | 4 June 2025

They escaped with their lives. Now they’ve been arrested

Immigration officers arrest more than 100 Zimbabweans seeking shelter after xenophobic attacks

By Joseph Chirume

Brief | 3 June 2025