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7 September 2010
(Press release)
In a meeting held on the 6th September 2010 with civil society organisations the Department of Home Affairs clarified their position on the “Zimbabwean Documentation Project”. According to the Home Affairs Deputy Director General, Jackie Mackay, there is a plan to document Zimbabweans who otherwise would not have qualified for permits in terms of the Immigration laws. This would...
7 September 2010
(Press release)
Comments by Minister Dlamini Zuma: Thank you and good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the media. We thought we should just explain because we thought the matter may not have been properly understood. You will recall that in April 2009 the previous Minister of Home Affairs announced that there was a moratorium on the deportation of Zimbabweans and there would be a special dispensation...
6 September 2010
(News)
Sunday Independent I Bianca Capazorio I
A man who says he is an Afghan national has been locked in a room at OR Tambo International Airport for 44 days, unable to see an attorney, or go home.
Lawyers for Human Rights, who are representing Mohamed Khalid, were on Friday granted immediate and ongoing access to their client after an urgent application in the South Gauteng High Court.
Khalid is...
3 September 2010
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights is concerned about the Cabinet announcement made on the 2
nd September that they intend to end the "special dispensation" for Zimbabweans that was announced April 2009. In April 2009, the then Minister of Home Affairs, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, announced the following three policy changes in respect of Zimbabwean nationals:
1. A moratorium on...
3 September 2010
(Press release)
Afghan national, Mohamed Khalid is being unlawfully detained in an unknown detention facility at the OR Tambo International Airport - in excess of 44 days. The man recently arrived on an Air France flight and has not been allowed to pass through immigration to enter South Africa. He is instead being detained in a private facility operated by Analytical Risk Management at the airport. For the past...
27 August 2010
(Press release)
On Monday, 23 August 2010, a contingent of officials from the Khara Hais Municipality accompanied by security guards and members of the SAPS arrived at New Heaven informal settlement in Paballelo, Upington. The municipal officials proceeded to tear down and demolish approximately ten shacks which had been erected and were occupied by desperately poor people including households headed by women,...
25 August 2010
(Press release)
Press Release - 25 August 2010
The advent of the removal of children begging in the streets in Tshwane, some accompanying adults has the public raging with dissent. Jo’burg Child Welfare (JCW) has the following comments on this issue:
“We note that such children are exposed to a great many hazards and that there is an urgent need for intervention to improve their...
24 August 2010
(News)
By Simon Mundy in Kya Sands
Bright Magomora took no chances when a crowd gathered outside his small shop, hammering on the walls with sticks and shouting that he should go home to Zimbabwe.
"I ran away," says Mr Magomora, who had spent five years in the South African shanty town of Kya Sands, north of Johannesburg. "They wanted to beat me up or kill me, saying that we foreigners...
22 August 2010
(News)
Daar is nuwe hoop vir die blinde Zimbabwiese vrou wie se baba deur wetstoepassers uit haar arms geruk is terwyl sy op ’n straathoek gebedel het. Die beeldmateriaal van die getraumatiseerde vrou en haar huilende baba (18 maande) het lesers die afgelope week aangegryp en fel kritiek van menseregtegroepe ontlok. Die vrou se ander kind (4) is ook by haar afgeneem.
Rapport het gister...
19 August 2010
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the Centre for Child Law (CCL) at the University of Pretoria will approach the North Gauteng High Court today at 14:00 to seek an urgent order for the release of three children from unlawful custody by state officials, most notably from the Department of Social Development (DSD).
On a terrifying Friday 13 August 2010, several state agencies including the...