Department of home affairs
Home Affairs Dept to resume issuing new & replacement IDs
The department put a hold on the issuing of new IDs and replacements, instead providing a temporary ID certificate. That was to decrease the number of people...
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WATCH LIVE: Motsoaledi briefing on voter registration weekend plans
Home Affairs offices are expected to be open to issue identity cards this weekend.
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Experts working on law to allow independent candidates to contest elections
Motsoaledi gave MPs an update on the amendments to electoral legislation while delivering his department’s budget vote speech on Wednesday.
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Home Affairs interdicts protesting undertakers from intimidating staff, visitors
The interdict comes as funeral parlours under the banner of the Unification Task Team have vowed to intensify their protests on Wednesday.
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Rights group in court to force Home Affairs to reopen CT refugee office
In 2017, the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the department to reopen the office by March 2018, but since then the department has missed several deadlines.
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Protesting funeral parlour owners threaten to shut Home Affairs on Wednesday
Funeral business owners demonstrated outside the Tshwane offices on Tuesday, demanding changes to the registration of death certificates.
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Delay in issuing death certificates impacting funeral parlours, say protesters
Operations at the Department of Home Affairs in Tshwane have been disrupted while the group protested outside the offices.
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Repatriation or reintegration: Home affairs dept gives refugees in CT options
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.
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Home Affairs bureaucracy: Woman can’t get an ID or register her child’s birth
Tashreeqa Isaacs’s life is mired in red tape because of an error that happened 18 years ago.
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Permits reviewing committee will create greater accountability - Motsoaledi
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.
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Home Affairs to probe irregularly granted permits, visas dating back to 2004
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that this came after several investigations by the department's counter-corruption unit found that dubious visas, permits and special citizenships were irregularly granted to prominent people by department officials.
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Rising cases of cybercrimes in SA leaving lasting impact on lives of victims
Poor authentication systems with mobile network operators, as well shortcomings at the Department of Home Affairs, are being cited as some of the contributing factors.
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Parly calls for probe into heavy congestion at borders during festive season
They also want the establishment of a one-stop border post with neighbouring countries to address challenges at the Beitbridge Border Post.
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Motsoaledi blames freight firms for Beitbridge chaos, confirms one death
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Wednesday briefed the media and rubbished reports that four drivers had died while they waited in the queue to cross.
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Motsoaledi: Home Affairs offices in bad state
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi visited the Pretoria office on Monday morning following a system glitch that left many stranded.
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FACT CHECK: Are there really 15 mln ‘undocumented foreigners’ in South Africa?
Africa Check takes a closer look at this recent claim by South African politician and businessperson Herman Mashaba.
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Home Affairs Minister Motsoaledi left seething after Bushiris skip country
The couple was out on bail after being arrested for their alleged involvement in fraud and money laundering worth over R100 million.
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Home Affairs: It’s unfair to bar unmarried men from registering child's birth
Section 10 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act stops fathers from registering their child at birth with their surname irrespective of whether the mother is deceased, absent, undocumented or cannot be located.
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Motsoaledi vows to act over irregular Home Affairs-EOH tender worth R409m
The contract, awarded to technology services company EOH, was for migrating data on the Home Affairs National Identification System (HANIS) to a new Automated Biometric Information System (ABIS).
