Home Affairs
Refugee organisations stage ceremony pretending that Home Affairs has resumed services
Asylum seekers are desperate for government to start serving them again
News | 19 March 2021
Home Affairs bureaucracy: Woman can’t get an ID or register her child’s birth
Tashreeqa Isaacs’s life is mired in red tape because of an error that happened 18 years ago
Brief | 15 March 2021
Zimbabwean couple demand gay rights
Yet having fled Zimbabwe, they face “corrupt, homophobic and xenophobic” Home Affairs in South Africa, says NGO
News | 26 February 2021
Home Affairs considers scrapping male and female ID numbers
Gender activists welcome draft new identity management policy, with some reservations
News | 18 February 2021
Dozens risk arrest for flouting lockdown rules to try to apply for IDs
But minister Motsoaledi this week temporarily suspended certain services, including applications for new IDs, passports and all marriage services
News | 14 January 2021
City of Cape Town in spat with Public Works over refugee camp
Meanwhile hundreds of refugees are without basic sanitation at the Bellville camp
News | 25 November 2020
Women and children hit by refugee office closure, court hears
Sonke Gender Justice is seeking to join as a friend of the court in Scalabrini versus Minister of Home Affairs case
By Liezl Human
Brief | 12 November 2020
Hip-hop artist told he must have a new ID number after Home Affairs mix up
Vakele Genu is unhappy with Home Affairs’ solution
By Liezl Human
News | 10 November 2020
Concern over huge number of expiring refugee documents
Under Covid-19 lockdown validity was extended but asylum seekers have struggled
News | 21 September 2020