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/ 21 December 2009
Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula won’t ask the parole board to review Schabir Shaik’s parole yet, a spokesperson said on Monday.
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/ 11 December 2009
Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has bought herself a R960 000 Lexus, while her deputy chose to get a Porsche Cayenne.
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/ 11 November 2009
The Department of Correctional Services is heading into a ”long battle” with its suspended national commissioner.
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/ 17 September 2009
About 65% of people who had in the past been released on medical parole are still alive, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Thursday.
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/ 16 September 2009
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on Wednesday called for an open debate on the performance of the country’s parole system.
Apartheid-era hitman Butana Almond Nofemela has been granted parole, Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Friday.
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has met apartheid-era police hit squad member, Butana Almond Nofemela, as she considers his parole after 21 years in prison.
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula told the media on Tuesday that without ”compelling evidence” she has no intention of reviewing Schabir Shaik’s medical parole.
An urgent application by the IFP leader to force the government to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama will take place on Thursday.
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi will push ahead with a court application to force the minister of home affairs to grant the Dalai Lama a visa.
An urgent court application by Mangosuthu Buthelezi to force the home affairs minister to grant the Dalai Lama a visa has been set down for Tuesday.
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/ 9 December 2008
Tightening border controls is the ”worst” thing South Africa could do to curb illegal immigration, says Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.
Foreigners affected by recent anti-immigrant violence in South Africa will not be deported, the home affairs minister said on Friday.
Xenophobic violence against foreign nationals has been brought under control, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said on Monday. ”I do believe the situation is under control … the violence has subsided,” he said at a briefing at the Union Buildings in Pretoria following an inter-governmental task team meeting with President Thabo Mbeki.
The National Association of Democratic Lawyers called on the government on Monday to appoint a commission of inquiry into the xenophobic violence and offer financial relief to victims. The organisation added that the state should ”offer structural, financial, psychological and any other appropriate relief to all the victims of this violence”.
Thousands of people marched through Johannesburg on Saturday, calling for an end to the violence that has killed at least 50 African migrants and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. People in Hillbrow, home to many African immigrants, cheered the march, which was organised by churches and labour unions.
Criminal elements were behind xenophobic violence in Alexandra, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Thursday. Speaking to journalists after a meeting with community and provincial leaders, she said not only foreign nationals were attacked, but South Africans were also forced out of their houses.
A special task team will investigate the cause of the recent xenophobic attacks in Alexandra and elsewhere in the country, government spokesperson Themba Maseko said on Thursday. The team will make recommendations about steps required to prevent a recurrence of this ”negative tendency”, he told a media briefing.
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/ 10 February 2008
The United Kingdom is ”likely” to strip South Africa of its ”visa-free” status this year because of rampant corruption in the Department of Home Affairs, the Sunday Times reported. South Africans would have to pay £63 (nearly R1 000) and provide fingerprints, ”facial biometrics” and travel documents to obtain visas, the newspaper said.
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/ 29 January 2008
Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has done her best to try to bring order and stability into the chaotic Home Affairs Department, MPs heard on Tuesday. ”The political responsibilities have been exercised boldly, and we are working towards an unqualified audit,” Deputy Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said.
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/ 20 January 2008
It has not been decided whether African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe will become South Africa’s deputy president, the party’s secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, said on Sunday at the close of the ANC national executive committee’s meeting in Midrand.
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/ 17 December 2007
It was open rebellion as the African National Congress began its 52nd national conference. Traditions of the movement, almost 100 years old, were thrown out as the majority of the more than 4 000 delegates made clear their support for the candidacy of deputy president Jacob Zuma to the top job.
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/ 14 November 2007
South Africans can soon expect a vast improvement in the time it takes to obtain identity documents, passports and a range of other services, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula announced on Wednesday. Also, a loophole allowing illegals to acquire South African documents and grants fraudulently will be closed.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Department of Home Affairs is forging ahead with plans to introduce a smart-card identification system, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Friday. ”It is clear to us that we have to move in this direction as quickly as possible,” she told a media briefing at Parliament.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Department of Home Affairs has ditched the South African Post Office (Sapo) as the distributor of its documents because of inefficiency. Initially, the Sapo contract with the department to deliver documents went very well, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula told a media briefing at Parliament on Friday.
The government needs to adopt a new approach to deal with Zimbabwean citizens flocking into South Africa, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Tuesday. The South African Broadcasting Corporation reported her as saying one solution could be to provide them with temporary residence permits.