Immigration

Home Affairs ignores court order

Scores of asylum seekers turned away at Foreshore office

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News | 3 April 2018

Shoddy treatment by Home Affairs wrecks families

Lack of transparency and arbitrary policies fail to protect families of refugees, says civil society organisation

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News | 27 March 2018

Don’t take us away from our customers, traders ask Mayor Athol Trollip

Informal vendors in Port Elizabeth relocated to site without customers, water, electricity or toilets

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News | 15 March 2018

Informal gold miners raise money to bury their friend

More Ngondi was killed by mine security

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Brief | 15 March 2018

Home Affairs defying court order, says LRC

Five years of court battles to get Home Affairs to honour constitutional rights of refugees

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News | 14 March 2018

Ethiopian immigrants’ long battle to be heard

Queues form from early morning at the Desmond Tutu Refugee Centre

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Feature | 9 March 2018

Zimbabwean children repatriated

Court sides with Department of Social Development against parents

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Brief | 7 March 2018

Informal gold miner shot dead and eight arrested

Security guards accused of corruption and double-crossing illegal miners

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News | 7 March 2018

Court battle over Zimbabwean children in SA custody

Parents seek urgent interdict to stop deportation

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News | 1 March 2018

Zimbabwean parent denied access to her child

Advocate says Department of Social Development has no right to keep the children from being with their families

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News | 22 February 2018

Zimbabwean children held for three months by South African government

Kids aged between two and 12 taken into custody, no contact with parents

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News | 14 February 2018

Home Affairs has backlog of 140,000 refugee status appeals

Official admits to rampant corruption at refugee centres

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News | 9 February 2018

96% of refugee applications are refused, say lawyers

Home Affairs is “institutionally xenophobic”, Human Rights Commission told

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News | 8 February 2018

Home Affairs extends deadline for new Zimbabwe Exemption Permit

Applicants have until 15 February to complete the process

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Brief | 1 February 2018

New refugee offices for Cape Town

Meanwhile refugees don’t have enough toilets at current offices

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News | 30 January 2018

Zimbabweans in SA tied up in red tape as permit deadline approaches

Applicants for permits are rejected if they do not have a valid Zimbabwean passport, even if they’ve applied for one

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News | 23 January 2018