Home Affairs
Gogo’s 20 year battle to change an error on her ID
Home Affairs is now investigating the matter
Brief | 31 May 2019
Eastern Cape family’s looooong battle to get a correct ID
According to Masibulele Soboyisi’s ID he was too young to write matric, so he can’t get his results
News | 24 May 2019
Home Affairs asks UN for help with refugee backlog
Department has to process 150,000 appeals
By Zoë Postman
News | 16 May 2019
If this is freedom then I don’t want it, says 80-year-old Flagstaff granny
No IDs, so no social grants: family survives off grandmother’s pension
News | 10 May 2019
Cameroonian refugees in Cape Town can’t get legal status
Home Affairs was ordered by the courts to open a centre over a year ago for new asylum seeker applicants
News | 2 May 2019
Why a high court dismissed Somali claims for asylum
But Lawyers for Human Rights disagrees with the court’s reasoning and is appealing
Law | 18 April 2019
“Agents” charge R300 to jump Home Affairs queues
“Come straight to me with the money and you will get inside”
News | 5 April 2019
Home Affairs tells man to come back with his dead mother
Robert Masuku has been voting since 1994 but is registered as an illegal immigrant
Brief | 5 March 2019
Blind Zimbabwean loses refugee status after identity muddle
Blessing Marindo has also lost his disability grant and is struggling to make ends meet
Brief | 28 February 2019