Immigration

Asylum seekers will have to live near borders if Home Affairs has its way

But it will be easier for SADC residents to work in South Africa

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News | 25 July 2017

Zimbabweans battle cost and bureaucracy of repatriating dead loved ones

Returning a body home costs about R20,000

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News | 19 July 2017

Asylum seekers entitled to UIF

Court orders Department of Labour to pay out

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Law | 18 July 2017

Suspicious death leaves immigrant family in poverty

The family of man who died in a mysterious fire say people told them to go back to the Congo

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News | 10 July 2017

Refugees claim abuse at UNHCR

Asylum seekers call for firing of staff at office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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News | 4 July 2017

South Africans put themselves in Zimbabwean shoes

Blessing Lunga and his brothers run a cottage industry from their shack

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News | 30 June 2017

Big victory for immigrant rights in Constitutional Court

Home Affairs must bring all detainees held under the Immigration Act before a magistrate within 48 hours

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Law | 29 June 2017

Homeless people evicted from disused property in Cape Town city centre

Evictees claim they improved the place while their neighbours describe it as a “den of prostitution, crime, and drugs”

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News | 28 June 2017

DRC immigrants protest against Kabila visit

President Jacob Zuma hosted his Congolese counterpart in a bilateral meeting

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News | 26 June 2017

“Stop looting our shops” demand immigrants

Asylum seekers take their grievances to Parliament

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Brief | 20 June 2017

Refugees struggle to renew papers at Home Affairs

Asylum seekers from Somalia face unexplained delays and shabby treatment at the foreshore office

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News | 15 June 2017

Will the Zimbabwe Special Permit be renewed?

Zimbabwean immigrants want clarity as permit expires in six months

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Brief | 9 June 2017

Asylum seekers targeted by thieves at Home Affairs

More security needed outside refugee centre

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News | 31 May 2017

Cops close shop because it is “foreign-owned”

Wallacedene residents react angrily to what appears to be officially sanctioned xenophobia

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News | 22 May 2017

High bank charges force immigrants to send money home “hand-to-hand”

Billions of rands involved, says new Scalabrini Centre report

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Feature | 10 May 2017

Man torched to death in possible xenophobic attack

“People who have businesses around the village were not happy for this foreign guy to run a business here”

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Brief | 13 April 2017