Immigration

Big victory for immigrant rights in Constitutional Court

Home Affairs must bring all detainees held under the Immigration Act before a magistrate within 48 hours

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Law | 29 June 2017

Homeless people evicted from disused property in Cape Town city centre

Evictees claim they improved the place while their neighbours describe it as a “den of prostitution, crime, and drugs”

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News | 28 June 2017

DRC immigrants protest against Kabila visit

President Jacob Zuma hosted his Congolese counterpart in a bilateral meeting

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News | 26 June 2017

“Stop looting our shops” demand immigrants

Asylum seekers take their grievances to Parliament

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Brief | 20 June 2017

Refugees struggle to renew papers at Home Affairs

Asylum seekers from Somalia face unexplained delays and shabby treatment at the foreshore office

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News | 15 June 2017

Will the Zimbabwe Special Permit be renewed?

Zimbabwean immigrants want clarity as permit expires in six months

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Brief | 9 June 2017

Asylum seekers targeted by thieves at Home Affairs

More security needed outside refugee centre

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News | 31 May 2017

Cops close shop because it is “foreign-owned”

Wallacedene residents react angrily to what appears to be officially sanctioned xenophobia

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News | 22 May 2017

High bank charges force immigrants to send money home “hand-to-hand”

Billions of rands involved, says new Scalabrini Centre report

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Feature | 10 May 2017

Man torched to death in possible xenophobic attack

“People who have businesses around the village were not happy for this foreign guy to run a business here”

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Brief | 13 April 2017

Asylum seekers’ desperate wait at Home Affairs office

Applicants wait for weeks for papers to be renewed

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News | 10 April 2017

Immigrants and South Africans march together in Hillbrow

Concerns over government’s new White Paper on immigration

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Brief | 29 March 2017

Immigrant finds her feet selling shoes

Melania sells second-hand footwear smuggled from Mozambique

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News | 24 March 2017

Immigrants in Imizamo Yethu: no relocation from community “we are used to”

Some foreign nationals have rebuilt their shacks after the fire despite City agreement

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News | 20 March 2017

Police stop anti-immigrant march in Rosettenville

“No houses will be burnt today. No shops will be looted. We will not allow such to happen.”

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News | 20 March 2017

Presidency refuses to accept memo from anti-xenophobia protest

South Africans and immigrants march together to Union Buildings

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News | 9 March 2017