Immigration

Immigrants demand refugee offices reopen after two years of lockdown

Home Affairs has opened services for South Africans but asylum seekers remain shut out

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News | 15 February 2022

Immigrant security guards head to court over unfair dismissal payment

Ultimate Protection and Control has failed to pay R300,000 owed to workers as compensation, says lawyer

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News | 14 February 2022

Refugees struggle to renew their asylum documents with Home Affairs online system

Some asylum seekers have missed the 31 December 2021 deadline

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News | 4 February 2022

Seven arrested during raid at Cissie Gool House appear in court

Five of those arrested were released on bail

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Brief | 3 February 2022

Immigrant traders in Gauteng fear for their safety after wave of xenophobic attacks

City of Johannesburg promises that traders allocated spaces will not be harassed or attacked

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News | 2 February 2022

Undocumented man applying for refugee status can remain in SA, Concourt rules

Court ruled that a delay in applying for refugee status does not affect a person’s right to apply for recognition as a refugee

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Law | 14 January 2022

Immigrants left out of Tshwane metro plans to relocate shack dwellers

“I have no idea where my family and I will go” says Zimbabwean man living in Pretoria informal settlement

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News | 1 December 2021

Protesters in Gqeberha threaten company for employing immigrants

#PutSouthAfricansFirst protesters accused of putting people’s lives in danger

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News | 26 November 2021

Cabinet announces Zimbabwe Exemption Permits will not be extended

Holders of the ZEPs given a year to migrate to other permits

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News | 25 November 2021

Minister and Legal Practice Council oppose court bid by Zimbabwean-born law graduates

Government argues the legal profession is not a rare or critical skill and that many South Africans struggle to get work

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News | 24 November 2021

Immigrants in JHB claim they are being denied health care

Public interest law centre considers legal action against Gauteng health department’s latest “xenophobic” policies

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News | 17 November 2021

By the time Home Affairs reopens its Cape Town refugee office it will have taken ten years

Epping office expected to open in September 2022

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News | 15 November 2021

Immigrants tough it out in Joburg’s “dark buildings”

They face police raids, evictions, extortion and crime

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Photo Essay | 5 November 2021

Neither here nor there: South Africa’s undocumented children

Akela was born in South Africa. Her parents are from Mozambique. But officially she doesn't exist.

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Video | 3 November 2021

Immigrant children use art to show how prejudice hurts

“I have never been to the DRC. I speak Sesotho fluently and a bit of Afrikaans but I am treated very differently by my peers.”

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Photo Essay | 29 October 2021

Save the Children sounds the alarm over food crisis facing immigrant children

Letter to Department of Social Development still unanswered after more than a year

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News | 26 October 2021