Immigration
Home Affairs in court after official tears up child’s passport
Tinashe Bello was happily at school in Cape Town until he applied for a visa to allow him to represent his school in a German soccer tournament
News | 31 October 2018
Home Affairs reopens refugee office it closed in 2011
“The courts had spoken. We had to do it,” says Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
News | 22 October 2018
Shangaan shop owners chased out of Duduza
South Africans not spared in latest xenophobic violence
News | 13 October 2018
A Zimbabwean mother just wanted her son to join her in SA. Now she is caught up in child trafficking charges
Siphathisiwe Ndlovu, who has been in South Africa since 2007, has now been denied a permit to stay
News | 11 October 2018
Zimbabwean teachers in SA unpaid for months
Western Cape Education Department says Home Affairs is to blame
Brief | 21 September 2018
Asylum seekers say officials keep their passports until they buy tickets to Zimbabwe
But bus ticket operators will usually not issue a cross-border ticket if the passenger does not show a passport
By Ray Mwareya
News | 21 September 2018
Home Affairs taking nine months to process permits for Zimbabweans
Some Zimbabweans who applied last year are still waiting as September deadline looms for ZEP permits
News | 14 September 2018
Local shops hike prices as immigrants forced out, say Gauteng residents
Yet anti-immigrant sentiments persist in Ratanda, south of Heidelberg
News | 13 September 2018
“I called the police many times but they never came”
What victims and perpetrators of Soweto’s xenophobic violence say
By Mosa Damane
Feature | 10 September 2018