New permits to be issued to the approximately 233,000 existing permit holders
Brief | 1 December 2023
Permit holders protected until at least June 2024
Law | 7 November 2023
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and Director-General Livhuwani Makhode must pay from their own pockets part of legal costs for Lawyers For Human Rights
Law | 30 October 2023
About 700,000 identity documents are blocked
Law | 18 September 2023
About 100 people marched in the rain under the banner of #UniteBehind
Brief | 22 August 2023
Dozens queue, but the reception office in Gqeberha only serves 15 asylum seekers a day
By Tariro Washinyira and Joseph Chirume
News | 12 July 2023
The automatic loss of South African citizenship after gaining citizenship of another country has been ruled to be unconstitutional
News | 14 June 2023
Thabo Bester finally added to Home Affairs’s data system after three decades as “an unidentifiable person”
News | 22 May 2023
People have been struggling to renew their permits at Home Affairs in Musina since 2020
Brief | 20 February 2023
The department says people without valid documents are being referred to documentation counters but choose not to go
Brief | 19 September 2022
It’s an unhappy journey marked by xenophobia and an uncertain future
News | 30 August 2022
Home Affairs files opposing affidavit in ZEP case brought by the Helen Suzman Foundation
Law | 22 August 2022
From 1 January 2023, hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans and their children will no longer be able to live, work and go to school legally in the republic
News | 23 June 2022
The closure meant refugees could only apply for asylum in Durban, Musina, Gqeberha or Pretoria
News | 26 May 2022
The state is denying learners their rights, says lawyer
By Liezl Human
News | 17 May 2022
“Most of us have been standing here since 3am” says 60-year-old man
News | 14 April 2022