The home affairs department is paying R33-million a year rental for its new Pretoria offices — almost R8-million more than what it previously paid.
South Africans can get a passport in days, but a foreigner is fortunate to get a permit within a year.
Rude and embarrassing treatment by passport officials over religious dress upsets local Muslims.
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/ 20 January 2012
Home Affairs declares Serbian fugitive a "prohibited person".
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/ 19 January 2012
Serbian fugitive Dobrosav Gavric, who fled a prison sentence for the murder of warlord Zeljko Raznatovic, has been declared "a prohibited person".
South Africa is pushing its campaign for Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to head the African Union, a key post to be decided next week.
Judgment has been reserved in the Western Cape High Court on whether it’s constitutional for government to bar the Dalai Lama entry into South Africa.
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/ 7 December 2011
The departments of home affairs in Cape Town and Durban did not follow procedure and instead lured asylum seekers under false pretences.
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/ 30 September 2011
For the first time in 15 years, the home affairs department has been given a clean bill of health by auditor general Terence Nombembe.
Cleaning up home affairs might be "like climbing a greased pole", but with its first unqualified audit in years, the department says it’s back on top.
The <em>Sunday Independent</em> has reported that a row is brewing over a planned visit to South Africa by the Dalai Lama.
Home affairs’s implicit extension on permit processing to August fails to allay fears of expulsion.
Home affairs says its project to issue permits to thousands of illegal Zim migrants is almost finished, and expects 99% of applications to succeed.
The amount of time asylum seekers have to apply for refugee status after entering South Africa could be reduced from 14 days to five.
The department of home affairs will open offices across the country to provide services on election day, Ronnie Mamoepa said on Tuesday.
It’s inhumane, impractical and was bulldozed through, human rights activists say.
Gijima has been re-instated as the supplier of the home affairs department’s new R2,1-billion IT system after being axed almost a year ago.
The home affairs department on Tuesday urged South Africans to collect over 500 000 unclaimed IDs ahead of the final voter registration weekend.
More than 275 000 Zimbabweans applied to the Department of Home Affairs to legalise their stay in South Africa.
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/ 27 December 2010
Illegal Zimbabweans living in South Africa have four days left to register for legal documents, the Home Affairs department said on Monday.
The Home Affairs minister said on Tuesday no Zimbabweans would be deported until all the applications for visas and permits had been processed.
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/ 13 December 2010
South Africans without IDs are hampered from accessing service rights like grants and education. Here are the stories of four victims.
Home affairs minister tries to ease anxiety as the December 31 regularisation deadline looms.
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/ 2 December 2010
Zimbabwe may need to enlist the help of the South African government in issuing new Zimbabwean passport because of the high demand.
Close scrutiny of home affairs figures shows that they do not add up.
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/ 14 October 2010
The DA has called for Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to explain how her department will tackle a backlog in refugee applications.
Two forensic reports under lock may explain why home affairs cancelled multibillion-rand IT contract.
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/ 19 October 2009
Lloyd Gedye reports on the mysterious involvement of two ‘generals’ in a R100-million home affairs tender row.
Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said she would not tolerate officials who ”think they rule the world.”
A protest by Zimbabwean refugees at the home affairs office in Durban on Friday ended in a ”constructive” meeting with department officials.
Zimbabwean refugees sorting out asylum papers were allegedly assaulted by home affairs officials, the MDC said on Friday in Durban.
Poor administration and corruption at the Department of Home Affairs has resulted in thousands of fraudulent passports, the US said in a report.