Home Affairs offices are expected to be open to issue identity cards this weekend.
An estimated 2,000 people fall victim to marriage fraud each year in South Africa.
Motsoaledi gave MPs an update on the amendments to electoral legislation while delivering his department’s budget vote speech on Wednesday.
On Monday, Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced that 41 people including the so-called ring leaders Aline Bukuru and Papy Sukami were deported two weeks ago.
Minister Motsoaledi said the UNHCR had discussed two issues - resettlement with communities in and around Cape Town and voluntary repatriation back to countries of origin.
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi briefed media on 19 April 2021 in Pretoria where he reiterated that refugees in Cape Town who wanted to be relocated to a different country would not be taken to any third country. They have 14 days to either be repatriated back to their countries of origin or settled back into communities where they lived.
The minister announced that the committee will be vetting several categories of permits and visas issued since 2004 to crack down on fraud and corruption.
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi visited the Lebombo border post on Monday to assess the state of readiness after the National Coronavirus Command Council took a decision to re-open border posts. #LebomboBorder #COVID19 #Level3Lockdown
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is visiting the Lebombo Border Post as the country reopened 20 land borders on Monday.
Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota and party colleague Farouk Cassim briefed Parliament’s home affairs committee on the bill on Tuesday.
The Constitutional Court ruled in June last year that the Electoral Act was unconstitutional in so far as it only allowed for the election of members of Parliament and provincial legislatures through political parties.
This formed part of the remedial action set down in a report, which made adverse findings against former minister Malusi Gigaba regarding the naturalisation of the Guptas, albeit that it cleared him of abusing his power.
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on 12 January 2021 during a media briefing that some services by the Department of Home Affairs would be suspended during the adjusted level 3 lockdown.
But while the border between Mozambique and South Africa may be closed migrants are still making their way into the country illegally.
Travellers from Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe are tested on arrival if they don’t have valid COVID-19 certificates – and those with fraudulent certificates are also turned away.
Many hospitals are battling to cope under the strain of the second surge in coronavirus infections, which is largely driven by a second variant.
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has visited the border post where nationals from Zimbabwe and other countries north of the Limpopo are seeking to enter.
Speaking at a media briefing on Wednesday, the minister said his department would deploy an additional 160 officials to six of the country’s busiest ports of entry to manage a high influx of people moving in and out of the country.
