Programme News
20 September 2010
(News)
Mail & Guardian I Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Sunday appealed to Zimbabweans living in South Africa to take up the government's offer to get their documentation in order. Dlamini-Zuma on Sunday appealed to Zimbabweans living in South Africa to take up the government's offer to get their documentation in order. "The South African government appeals to...
15 September 2010
(News)
Johannesburg – The City of Johannesburg will be regulating the provision of shelter to internal and foreign migrants to avoid "unsafe" situations, mayor Amos Masondo said on Tuesday. "The lack of managed shelter in the city has, in the past, led to undesirable situations such as that which existed at the Central Methodist Church in the Johannesburg CBD,"...
14 September 2010
(News)
Faced with the August 12 expiry of his Section 22 asylum seekers permit which has to be renewed every three months, Zimbabwean Kholwani Ngwenya, 31, went to the Cape Town Refugee Reception office on August 10. But a month later Ngwenya still hasn’t got to the front of the queue at the Maitland Home Affairs office despite returning by 6am every morning. And he is afraid that when he...
13 September 2010
(News)
South Africa will in about two week’s time begin issuing permits to Zimbabwean immigrants living in the country, it was announced on Friday.
Pretoria last week said it would in December resume deporting undocumented Zimbabweans, ending an 18-month moratorium on deportations of illegal immigrants from its struggling northern neighbour.
But Pretoria said Zimbabweans already working, engaged...
10 September 2010
(News)
Jason Moyo I Mail and Guardian I Zimbabwe's home affairs department, desperately short of cash and run by two ministers from rival parties, says it has begun the almost impossible task of documenting the millions of Zimbabweans living in South Africa illegally.
South Africa announced last week that it would begin deporting undocumented Zimbabweans in December at the end of a special suspension...
9 September 2010
(Press release)
Yesterday the Pretoria High Court granted an urgent interim order interdicting the Department of Home Affairs, ACSA, and Analytical Risk Management (a private detention facility) from deporting, or in any way facilitating the removal of two Somali refugees, who were being deported from Namibia to Somalia, and who were at the time transiting through OR Tambo Airport.
Lawyers for Human Rights (...
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...