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News for the year: 2010

ZIMBABWE DOCUMENTATION PROCESS: HOME AFFAIRS REMAINS RESOLUTE ON REFUSAL TO EXTEND DEADLINE
29 December 2010
(Press release)
Home Affairs responds to LHR's complaint to the Public Protector
15 December 2010
(Press release)
Complaint to the Public Protector regarding Home Affairs’ refusal to extend Zimbabwe documentation deadline
9 December 2010
(Press release)
Vacancies: Attorneys (Johannesburg, Durban and Musina)
6 December 2010
(Press release)
Countdown to deportation
3 December 2010
(News)
Minister of Human Settlements misunderstands the Constitution and social justice struggles
3 December 2010
(Press release)
SA will not extend permit deadline
1 December 2010
(News)
Where did all the foreigners go? (Mail & Guardian)
30 November 2010
(News)
The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons From Enforced Disappearances Enters Into Force on 23 December 2010
26 November 2010
(Press release)
TRANSCRIPT : INTERACTION WITH MEDIA BY MINISTER DLAMINI ZUMA ON CONCLUSION OF DISCUSSIONS WITH ZIMBABWEAN STAKEHOLDER FORUM, 23 November 2010
25 November 2010
(News)
Supreme Court of Appeal orders immediate release of Somali refugees from OR Tambo Airport
24 November 2010
(Press release)
Home Affairs Press Statement confirms asylum seekers and refugees access to bank accounts
22 November 2010
(News)
Refugees and asylum seekers again able to access bank accounts
9 November 2010
(Press release)
Fury as police round up foreigners
8 November 2010
(News)
Changes to Refugee Act may increase backlogs - Lawyers for Human Rights (EWN)
27 October 2010
(News)
Official slated for sneering at judge (Sunday Times)
17 October 2010
(News)
Red Ants raid homeless people’s land (Pretoria News)
15 October 2010
(News)
Home Affairs: What are the costs of defending a dysfunctional department?
13 October 2010
(Press release)
NGO Statement on International Protection made at the 61st Executive Committee Meeting of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
11 October 2010
(News)
Zimbabweans Have Long Wait to Get Legal (Business Day)
6 October 2010
(News)
Zimbabweans Have Long Wait to Get Legal (Business Day)
6 October 2010
(News)
Gigaba visits home affairs
30 September 2010
(News)
Home Affairs chaos
30 September 2010
(News)
Zimbabweans told to 'regularise' stay in SA
20 September 2010
(News)
City to regulate migrant shelters (News 24)
15 September 2010
(News)
Home Affairs faces challenge to refugee fines policy (West Cape News)
14 September 2010
(News)
Zimonline I Tobias Manyuchi I SA to issue permits to Zim immigrants
13 September 2010
(News)
Zimbabwe Government in Permit Scramble
10 September 2010
(News)
Court halts deportation of Somali refugees minutes before their departure
9 September 2010
(Press release)
Civil Society responds to Home Affairs “Zimbabwe Documentation Project” and end of Special Dispensation for Zimbabweans
7 September 2010
(Press release)
Minister Dlamini Zuma responds to criticism on end of Special Dispensation for Zimbabweans
7 September 2010
(Press release)
Afghan man stuck in transit at OR Tambo Airport
6 September 2010
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights concerned about mass deportations following government’s lifting of ‘special dispensation’ that never took effect
3 September 2010
(Press release)
Home Affairs and ACSA deny detained Afghan national legal representation at OR Tambo International Airport
3 September 2010
(Press release)
Kimberly High Court orders municipality to reconstruct unlawfully demolished shacks in Upington
27 August 2010
(Press release)
Removal of children of beggars (Johannesburg Child Welfare)
25 August 2010
(Press release)
Attacks on foreigners scar South Africa (FT)
24 August 2010
(News)
Blinde mag kinders besoek (Rapport)
22 August 2010
(News)
Poverty is no reason to separate families - LHR and Child Law Centre
19 August 2010
(Press release)
It's hard living in tent city - Sowetan
12 August 2010
(News)
Squatters' woes far from over - Sowetan
12 August 2010
(News)
Don't move squatters, judge says (News24)
24 July 2010
(News)
LHR TO SEEK URGENT ORDER TO TEMPORARY SHELTER AFTER CRUEL AND UNLAWFUL EVICTION
22 July 2010
(Press release)
No time for denialism
22 July 2010
(News)
World Cup a triumph, now South Africa must keep its head
14 July 2010
(News)
Threat of xenophobia sinks in
12 July 2010
(News)
Rwandan General’s status as refugee called into question
2 July 2010
(News)
"War crimes suspect" has asylum in SA
2 July 2010
(News)
ICJ to observe the trial of Farai Maguwu in Zimbabwe
26 June 2010
(News)
HIGH COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF ZIMBABWEAN ACTIVIST DETAINED FOR HIS “STICKY OUT EARS”
28 May 2010
(Press release)
African civil society outraged by harsh sentence and call for release of Malawi couple and repeal of discriminatory laws
21 May 2010
(News)
'Above the law' Presidency claims exemption from Information Act - M&G
17 May 2010
(News)
ZLHR press release: Zimbabwe: Justice Prevails as Judge Bhunu Acquits Bennet
10 May 2010
(Press release)
2010 FIFA WORLD CUP BY-LAW CONCERNS
6 May 2010
(Press release)
Joint statement on Australian asylum processing suspension: violations of Australia’s international human rights obligations that undermine civil society efforts to strengthen refugee protections throughout the Asia Pacific region
4 May 2010
(Press release)
Home Affairs reforms should focus on immigration policy
15 April 2010
(Press release)
Court orders Home Affairs to release detained Afghan family who were fleeing from the Taliban
19 March 2010
(Press release)
High Court rules against Itireleng evictees
1 March 2010
(Press release)
Supreme Court of Appeal Slams Home Affairs for Illegal Detention
25 February 2010
(Press release)
'Council demolished shacks, so it must rebuild them' (Pretoria News)
15 February 2010
(News)
Cormsa calls for effective intervention to stop xenophobic violence in Siyathemba
9 February 2010
(Press release)
Balfour (Siyathemba): Grave concern at continuing violence against refugees
9 February 2010
(Press release)
Why weren't we told our school would be closing? (Pretoria News)
8 February 2010
(News)
Deprivation of liberty of an individual is inherently urgent- declares court in releasing asylum seeker
27 January 2010
(Press release)
Court bid to release Zim report (Pretoria News)
25 January 2010
(News)
39 foreigners arrested in Jhb (SAPA)
15 January 2010
(News)
Statement on the Forced Deportations of the Uighurs from Cambodia and the Lao Hmong from Thailand
14 January 2010
(Press release)
Curator to look into church refugees row (Sowetan)
7 January 2010
(News)