Immigration

Being a refugee and a lesbian is difficult, says Somali woman

“I felt like I was in a cage”

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Feature | 30 August 2017

Can imprisoned asylum seekers be deported?

What happens to a Somali refugee may give the answer

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Brief | 18 August 2017

Good news for Zimbabweans? Home Affairs says permits will be renewed

ZSPs will be renewable under certain conditions but it’s not yet clear what they are

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Brief | 4 August 2017

Zimbabweans protest for right to vote

Demonstrators outside the Zimbabwean consulate in Cape Town demanded their democratic rights

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Brief | 28 July 2017

Gay immigrants campaign for acceptance

Night of solidarity held for Cape Town immigrant and LGBTI community

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News | 28 July 2017

Catch 22 for refugee in prison

Somali denied parole as he is unable to renew documentation

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News | 26 July 2017

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