Home Affairs
Two-year extension for Zimbabwe and Lesotho permit holders
New permits to be issued to the approximately 233,000 existing permit holders
Brief | 1 December 2023
Zimbabwe permit application dismissed: no need for it, say judges
Permit holders protected until at least June 2024
Law | 7 November 2023
Concourt slaps Home Affairs minister with personal cost order
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
Home Affairs taken to court over blocked IDs
About 700,000 identity documents are blocked
Law | 18 September 2023
Protest over poor service at Khayelitsha Home Affairs
About 100 people marched in the rain under the banner of #UniteBehind
Brief | 22 August 2023
Refugees face “no hope” service from Home Affairs
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
Lost citizens welcomed back by Supreme Court of Appeal
The automatic loss of South African citizenship after gaining citizenship of another country has been ruled to be unconstitutional
News | 14 June 2023
Motsoaledi rubbishes Dr Nandipha’s court bid to have her arrest in Tanzania declared “unlawful”
Thabo Bester finally added to Home Affairs’s data system after three decades as “an unidentifiable person”
News | 22 May 2023
Asylum seekers fear arrest as delays mount
People have been struggling to renew their permits at Home Affairs in Musina since 2020
Brief | 20 February 2023