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27 July 2015
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The Department of Home Affairs went into damage control mode following a report that listed its Marabastad office as its most corrupt.
In response to the damning finding, the department had set up a response team and a counter-corruption initiative — Operation Bvisa Masina, which is Venda for "throw out the rot" — to restore order throughout Home Affairs branches.
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25 July 2015
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Certain home affairs offices have been singled out for attention because they are apparently hotbeds for fraud and corruption.
This was the message delivered by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba at a press briefing in Pretoria on the report about corruption at Marabastad Refugee Reception Office.
The report‚ released early last week by Lawyers for Human Rights (LRA) and the African Centre...
24 July 2015
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On any given weekday somewhere between 500 and well over a thousand people line up at the Marabastad office of the department of home affairs, on the fringes of downtown Pretoria, to be processed for paperwork to confirm or reconfirm their status as asylum seekers or refugees in South Africa.
Before they leave again, according to research published this week, about half of them will have paid at...
23 July 2015
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Corruption Watch has described widespread fraud and corruption at the Home Affairs department’s refugee reception offices as a black market.
On Wednesday, the African Centre for Migration and Society released the findings of a report, revealing the shocking extent of corruption in South Africa’s asylum system.
Foreign nationals have apparently been paying bribes to have their...
23 July 2015
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The report released by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the African Centre of Migration & Society (ACMS) on institutionalised corruption within the asylum application processes at Home Affairs offices countrywide must be tabled in Parliament and must be addressed.
The report contains shocking statistics and findings and produces evidence of human rights abuses and rampant corruption at...
23 July 2015
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Lifting the curtain on corruption in the refugee and asylum-seeking process
23 July 2015 11:30 AM
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Almost a third of the people who have to deal with Home Affairs Refugee Reception Offices (RROs) in South Africa have been asked for bribes.
This is according to a recent report by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the African Centre for Migration and Society....
23 July 2015
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Of the five refugee reception offices in the country‚ Marabastad in Pretoria is the most corrupt‚ a research report released by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) revealed.
The report entitled "Queue here for corruption - Measuring irregularities in South Africa's asylum system" was launched at a seminar at the...
23 July 2015
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OF THE five refugee reception offices in the country‚ Marabastad in Pretoria is the most corrupt‚ a research report released by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) has revealed.
The report, entitled Queue here for corruption — Measuring irregularities in South Africa’s asylum system, was launched at a seminar at the...
23 July 2015
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Pay up or go undocumented. This is the corrupt asylum system at South Africa’s refugee offices, making life even more difficult for an already marginalised group in society.
A report into the “rampant corruption” within the system exposes significant levels of crookery, with access, documentation, status and renewal requests having all been linked to some form of payment.
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22 July 2015
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Today Lawyers for Human Rights and the African Centre for Migration & Society at Wits University launched key research findings on corruption within the South African asylum process, especially at the Department of Home Affairs’ five refugee recepton offices.
The report found that there were significant levels of corruption at various stages of the asylum process. In particular, the...