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A moment to reflect: The US is politicising the issue of asylum, but in South Africa some populist politicians do the same. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ASYLUM

SA politicians also weaponise migration

South Africa must rid itself of issues that prevent a fair, rights-based approach to people’s mobility

  • Leleti Maluleke
7 min read
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi .(Alet Pretorius/Foto24/Gallo Images)
GREEN PAPER ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

Motsoaledi withdrawing South Africa from international refugees treaties is not a solution

The country must chart a humane policy for refugees that flows from the spirit and objects of the post-apartheid constitutional order

  • Callixte Kavuro
7 min read
ANDREW MPHANGA

Luphondo, Masange released on bail

Matric Luphondo and his two co-accused face corruption charges for trying to bribe a state prosecutor

  • Emsie Ferreira
2 min read
On the warpath: Nthateng Maoke (centre), the former executive mayor of the Setsoto local municipality, is taking the department of home affairs to court to review its decision that she is not a South African citizen.
ANC

Municipality won’t remove former mayor, despite home affairs demands

The department is fighting with a small Free State town, which it accuses of continuing to employ an illegal immigrant

  • Thanduxolo Jika
3 min read
Immigration applications are submitted to South Africa’s 124 foreign missions, but each seems to have its own set of requirements. (Jacques Demarthon/Reuters)
HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT

Immigration Act upended by legal chaos

Every foreigner, including investors, has to hurdle ignorant officials and a multiplicity of ‘laws’

  • Gary Eisenberg
4 min read
Passport to education: Undocumented children still have the right to an education. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN DIASPORA FORUM

Migrant children’s education must be ensured, not promised

Although the education of children of immigrants is protected in the Bill of Rights, it is labelled an offence in the Immigration Act

  • Manos Antoninis
4 min read
Invisible: Immigrants queue outside the home affairs department in Pretoria for permits and visas. South Africa is not living up to its constitutional obligation to meet the needs of all people. The African Continental Free Trade Area endorses immigration, yet South Africa’s home affairs department is pushing for stringent requirements for visas. (Madelene Cronjé)
DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS

Home affairs minister abdicates his duties

Our Constitution requires a humane treatment of people but functionaries fail to recognise this

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read