Immigration

Zimbabweans stock up in SA to beat inflation at home

But the cost of taking goods back rises over Christmas

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News | 18 December 2018

Concourt agrees: people guilty of serious crimes will not qualify for refugee status

However, extradition law still protects their fundamental rights

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Law | 6 December 2018

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

Asylum seekers can now apply for residence visas

Constitutional Court ruling overturns Home Affairs directive

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Law | 27 November 2018

New PE refugee centre struggling to cope with large number of applicants

Many applicants are turned away daily because of lack of capacity

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News | 26 November 2018

Born in South Africa but not a citizen

Ghanaian matric student desperate for ID to get to university in 2019

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News | 26 November 2018

Rwandan man faces death if he is deported from South Africa

The Constitutional Court is deciding if Alex Ruta can seek asylum

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Law | 2 November 2018

Immigrant shop owners terrorised in Newcastle

Two shopkeepers murdered in October

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Brief | 2 November 2018

Home Affairs in court after official tears up child’s passport

Tinashe Bello was happily at school in Cape Town until he applied for a visa to allow him to represent his school in a German soccer tournament

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News | 31 October 2018

Home Affairs reopens refugee office it closed in 2011

“The courts had spoken. We had to do it,” says Deputy Minister of Home Affairs

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News | 22 October 2018

Shangaan shop owners chased out of Duduza

South Africans not spared in latest xenophobic violence

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News | 13 October 2018

A Zimbabwean mother just wanted her son to join her in SA. Now she is caught up in child trafficking charges

Siphathisiwe Ndlovu, who has been in South Africa since 2007, has now been denied a permit to stay

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News | 11 October 2018

Zimbabwean teachers in SA unpaid for months

Western Cape Education Department says Home Affairs is to blame

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Brief | 21 September 2018

Asylum seekers say officials keep their passports until they buy tickets to Zimbabwe

But bus ticket operators will usually not issue a cross-border ticket if the passenger does not show a passport

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News | 21 September 2018

Home Affairs taking nine months to process permits for Zimbabweans

Some Zimbabweans who applied last year are still waiting as September deadline looms for ZEP permits

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News | 14 September 2018

Local shops hike prices as immigrants forced out, say Gauteng residents

Yet anti-immigrant sentiments persist in Ratanda, south of Heidelberg

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News | 13 September 2018