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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
XENOPHOBIA

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…

  • Lyse Comins
7 min read
Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe has been fined R600 000 and ordered to be deported after pleading guilty in the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg.
ALEXANDRA MAGISTRATE S COURT

Mugabe’s son fined R600 000 and ordered to be immediately deported after Johannesburg court plea deal

Bellarmine Chatunga to be deported while his co-accused, Tobias Matonhodze, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment

  • Mandisa Makgakga
2 min read
Bicycles are piled up as Burundian refugees crowd gather along the shoreline of the Tanganyika lake in the fishing village of Kagunga. (Photo by Daniel Hayduk/AFP)
AFRICAN UNION

Burundian refugees in Tanzania face increasing danger

Human Rights Watch has documented cases of Burundian refugees being tortured and forcibly returned by Tanzanian authorities

  • Mausi Segun
4 min read
(The October 13 deportation flight is part of an overall strategy of the Trump administration to target African immigration, which was increasing in the years before he came to office. ALEX EDELMAN / AFP)
ANGLOPHONE CAMEROONIANS

The Trump administration keeps targeting African immigrants

Cameroonians are caught between a vicious civil war at home and brutal detention and deportation measures in the countries they flee to

  • Joe Penney
4 min read
(Elin Ersson/Buzzfeed)
AFGHANISTAN

Swedish student delays deportation of Afghan man with in-flight video stream

Activist Elin Ersson disobeyed authorities to delay the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker, saying it is not right “to send people to hell”

  • Staff Reporter
  • Gemma Ritchie
2 min read
(Regis Duvignau/Reuters)
DEPORTATION

Outcry as Japanese winemakers are threatened with deportation from France

More than 42 000 people have already signed a petition protesting the ‘crazy, moronic and shameful decision’

  • Remy Zaka
  • Fiachra Gibbons
  • Remy Zaka Guest Author
3 min read
Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu says there should be discussion with the media regarding adverts for illegal and immoral businesses
DEPORTATION

Failure to manage inflow of immigrants cause of violence – MP

The portfolio committee on home affairs has asked difficult questions concerning the messy problem of xenophobia.

  • Thulani Gqirana
5 min read
High school students demonstrate at the Nation square in Paris, on October 18, 2013, during a protest against the deportation of foreign pupils following the high-profile eviction of a 15-year-old Roma girl. (Getty)
AFP

Probe finds France’s deportation of school girl lawful

French authorities on Saturday found that police could have acted with more caution when detaining the school girl.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
Less than 300 000 Zimbabweans stay legally in South Africa.
DEPORTATION

Zimbabwe wants SA to keep its citizens

The cost of deporting illegal Zimbabwean immigrants is huge and has prompted calls for South Africa to legitimise their stay.

  • Mmanaledi Mataboge
5 min read
There’s little or no evidence that border walls stop virus outbreaks.
DEPORTATION

Zambia draws flak for summary expulsions

A SA businessperson has been deported from Zambia, the latest in a string of deportations seen as instigated by politically connected competitors.

  • Sylvester Mwale
3 min read
ASYLUM SEEKERS

Court orders release of asylum seekers

The departments of home affairs in Cape Town and Durban did not follow procedure and instead lured asylum seekers under false pretences.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
ASYLUM SEEKERS

Home affairs resumes Zim deportations

The moratorium on deporting illegal Zimbabweans has quietly been lifted by the department of home affairs, prompting an outcry from rights groups.

  • Katharine Child
3 min read
DEPORTATION

Smooth sailing as home affairs beats Zim permits deadline

The home affairs department announced the Zimbabwean Documentation Project deadline was successful and that no deportations would take place yet.

  • Kathleen Chaykowski
2 min read
Drive to bring Zim migrants in from cold ‘nearly done’
DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS

No Zim deportations yet, says Dlamini-Zuma

The Home Affairs minister said on Tuesday no Zimbabweans would be deported until all the applications for visas and permits had been processed.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
DEPORTATION

Refugee group slams govt decision on Zim migrants

Cabinet’s decision to resume deportations of Zimbabweans was tantamount to a death sentence, a refugee rights organisation said on Thursday.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
DEPORTATION

Deportation was unlawful

Now lawyer wants rendered Khalid Rashid to sue the Home Affairs Department.

  • Monako Dibetle
3 min read