Immigration

Activists march to Lindela to demand better treatment of refugees

Malusi Gigaba says service at Desmond Tutu Refugee Reception Office has improved

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News | 21 June 2018

Slow progress towards opening Cape Town refugee office

Home Affairs re-opens Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Offices, but Cape Town process very slow

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News | 19 June 2018

Khayelitsha residents destroy shack in xenophobic attack

“People destroyed my shack and took everything. They say they don’t want a kwere kwere to stay here.”

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News | 11 June 2018

Zimbabwean children miss exams as Home Affairs sends them from city to city

“These people are not considerate. Why work with refugees when they do not have refugees’ interests at heart?”

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News | 8 June 2018

Some bank accounts blocked while customers wait for new Zimbabwean Exemption Permit

Banks remind customers to bring proof of application

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Brief | 6 June 2018

Former Angolan refugees face uncertain future

They were expecting permanent residence, but they have been offered four years in South Africa instead

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News | 4 June 2018

Victory for asylum seekers in Constitutional Court

Court rules on extension of temporary permits

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Law | 30 May 2018

No security at Home Affairs

Foreshore office even more chaotic than usual

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News | 25 May 2018

Case dropped against arrested informal gold miners

Four miners fined for contravening immigration law

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Brief | 18 May 2018

Refugee organisation condemns raids by Home Affairs

Government says it will continue to enforce immigration legislation with “full might of the law” and “no respite”

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Brief | 15 May 2018

Woman had to buy fake permit to get child into school

No place at school without a study permit, but no study permit without a place in school, complain Zimbabwean parents

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News | 10 May 2018

Refugee organisations take Home Affairs to court for defying judges

More than a month after the deadline, still no fully functioning refugee centre in Cape Town

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News | 10 May 2018

Soccer brings immigrants and South Africans together

Sport helps reduce tension, say activists

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News | 2 May 2018

Home Affairs bungle separates man from pregnant wife

Immigration official violates policy, preventing Zimbabwean from entering South Africa

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News | 26 April 2018

Tsonga farmers put vacant Gauteng municipal land to good use

“The municipality warns us when someone buys the land, then we move on”

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News | 11 April 2018

Couple’s nightmare battle with Home Affairs

Despite living together for nine years, a life partner visa has been refused three times

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News | 6 April 2018