Immigration
“I don’t want to sit in this hellish country any more”
Refugees who have returned to their communities after long protest in Cape Town still want to leave South Africa
News | 29 September 2021
Immigrants arrested in labour inspection sweep in Eastern Cape
Rights organisation says Home Affairs has done nothing to help people get their documents in order during lockdown
Brief | 14 September 2021
State refused to help immigrant fire victims, so this organisation stepped up
Immigrants who lost their shacks in a fire in Briardene last month were refused building materials by the state
Brief | 12 August 2021
Home Affairs to renew Angolan Special Permit as deadline looms
Online application at the Visa Facilitation Services expected to start on 16 August and could take eight weeks to process
News | 6 August 2021
Law graduates to challenge legal profession’s discrimination against immigrants
Zimbabwean-born and fully South African qualified advocate works as a waiter because of legal profession’s rules
Law | 27 July 2021
Covid-19: Restaurant owners fume at TERS failures
Many immigrant restaurant workers find themselves excluded from payment system
News | 20 July 2021
Xenophobia alive in some schools, human rights meeting is told
Matric children of immigrants born in South Africa also battle to get IDs so that they can enrol in tertiary education, but Home Affairs is trying to fix this
News | 20 July 2021
Refugees frustrated by Home Affairs online renewal system
Officials accused of exploiting asylum seekers’ desperation at the Pretoria refugee centre
By Kimberly Mutandiro and Tariro Washinyira
News | 13 July 2021
A thriving trade has sprung up around informal mining in Gauteng
Immigrant traders supply miners with everything from water to socks
News | 7 July 2021