Immigration
Death toll rises to seven after police swoop on informal gold miners
Some miners have already gone back to work to earn money and repatriate the bodies of their colleagues
News | 17 September 2024
Marshalltown fire survivors to launch class action against City of Johannesburg
A year after the tragedy, survivors and families of those who died in the Usindiso building want compensation
News | 26 August 2024
Judge slams lawyers who preyed on refugees
Attorneys and advocate who did “a cut and paste job” for clients ordered to pay the costs from their own pockets
Law | 19 August 2024
Anger at huge jump in Zimbabwean passport price
Petition gathers over 1,100 signatures
News | 2 August 2024
Asylum seekers fear arrest but can’t access documents
Lawyers for Human Rights takes this issue to the High Court next month.
News | 18 July 2024
Fhatuwani Sibanda lost his job because Home Affairs said he was a foreigner. But he’s South African
Home Affairs has failed to comply with two court rulings
News | 17 July 2024
Zimbabweans in South Africa welcome rollout of e-passports
Pilot programme has seen about 60 e-passports processed daily since 21 June and the Zimbabwean Consulate says it is extending the initiative indefinitely
Brief | 27 June 2024
Constitutional Court refuses Home Affairs leave to appeal Zimbabwe permit decision
In June 2023 the Pretoria High Court ruled that the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit was unlawfully terminated
Brief | 19 June 2024
Refugee and former car guard graduates with a PhD
Albert Mpazayabo hopes his thesis on integration of refugees in South Africa will be taken seriously by the authorities
News | 10 May 2024