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Calculated move: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. No amount of Oval Office warmth changes the arithmetic and Netanyahu knows exactly how much defiance he can get away with. Photo:@nethanyah/X

SA condemns ICC sanctions as Trump and Israel attack Pillay

South Africa has voiced serious concern over sweeping US sanctions against the International Criminal Court as Donald Trump and Israel hit out at Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi…

Minister Leon Schreiber. Image: Supplied

Home Affairs withdraws asylum directive as Schreiber defends reversal

Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber has defended the withdrawal of an asylum application directive after refugee centres were overwhelmed and violent anti-immigrant protests…

Refugees: IMC chairperson and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Mmamoloko Kubayi says they have written to the Gauteng Judge President to resolve the unintended consequences of the ConCourt judgment. Photo: GCIS

ConCourt’s asylum seeker unintended consequences

The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration has raised concerns over unintended consequences from a Constitutional Court ruling, which has caused massive backlogs and…

illeagal chrome mining in Limpopo.

Tougher illegal mining laws raise questions over who will be targeted

A recent mine collapse in Nkaneng, Rustenburg, highlights South Africa's illegal mining crisis as the government introduces the General Mining Laws Amendment Bill. The bill…

Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Mmamoloko Kubayi. (@mmkubayi/X)

Kubayi suspends three IDAC investigators as government launches major overhaul

Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has announced the suspension of three senior investigators from the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption…

Conflicted: Andrea
Johnson, head of
the Investigating
Directorate Against
Corruption (IDAC).
Photo: Parliament of RSA

Johnson quits Idac to dodge fitness inquiry but can’t avoid Madlanga

Andrea Johnson, head of the Independent Directorate Against Corruption (Idac), has resigned to avoid a costly inquiry into her fitness to hold office. Her resignation, accepted…

Subject of discussion: Ghana MPs call for continental action against xenophobic violence in South Africa. Photo: Parliament of Ghana

Tension at home; citizens quizzed

Growing criticism across Africa questions South Africa's handling of migration, with countries like the Republic of Congo and Malawi initiating repatriation. The backlash is…

Department of Home Affairs manager Cyril Mncwabe (left)  KZN Premier Thami Ntuli (middle) and SAPS eThekwini district commissioner Major General Makhosazana Kheswa (right) visit the Sherwood Hall grounds in Durban where an estimated 10 000 Malawians have gathered seeking repatriation over the past week. Photo: Lyse Comins

SA xenophobia: Births, rising fury and the state’s deportation crackdown

A humanitarian crisis is escalating in Durban's Sherwood Hall transit camp, where thousands of undocumented Malawian nationals, including families like Mussa Peters', face dire…

First 1140 Malawians processed at Durban repatriation site found to be undocumented

The first 1140 Malawian nationals processed at a repatriation site in Durban were found to be in the country illegally, Deputy Home Affairs Minister Njabulo Nzuza said on Sunday,…