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Department of home affairs

Home Affairs extends operating hours during winter school holidays

By Simangele Legodi

In a statement on Thursday, Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi announced the extension of the two-hour operating period in selected offices until 15 July...

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    The report looked into permanent residence permits and corporate visas, especially in the mining sector, among others.

    47 days ago
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    Home Affairs Dept planning move to shopping malls for ease of accessibility

    The Home Affairs Department said that it was working on simplifying the lives of South Africans and those who lived in the country.

    81 days ago
  • FILE: Department of Home Affairs. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/Eyewitness News

    Home Affairs services back online, department announces extended operating hours

    The Home Affairs Ministry says services at its offices have been restored countrywide.

    133 days ago
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    It’s no joke, Home Affairs says most services are offline nationwide

    The Home Affairs Department says most of its services are not available nationwide due to a cable breakage.

    135 days ago
  • FILE: The two were arrested after a security guard saw them exchanging money. Picture: 123rf.com

    Home affairs official in court for allegedly accepting bribe from asylum seeker

    The Refugee Status Determination Officer at the Desmond Tutu Refugee Reception Centre in Pretoria was arrested on Tuesday.

    137 days ago
  • The Huawei logo stands on a Huawei office building in Dongguan in China’s southern Guangdong province on 18 December 2018. Picture: AFP

    Dept goes after Huawei for breaching labour and immigration laws

    On Friday, the Employment and Labour Department announced that it had launched court action against the firm for contravening the Employment Equity Act by hiring 90% foreign labour locally.

    181 days ago
  • FILE: Sassa said individuals would forfeit their grants if the information at Home Affairs did not match that previously registered with the agency. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/Eyewitness News

    Sassa to beneficiaries: Please update us if any of your details change

    People who get married or change their surname at the Department of Home Affairs are advised to update their details.

    220 days ago
  • FILE: A South African Police Service officer interacts with a driver who's crossing from Zimbabwe into South Africa using the Beitbridge border post, near Musina, South Africa, on 8 January 2021. Picture: AFP.

    Zimbabweans living in SA welcome govt's decision to withdraw ZEP circular

    Minister Aaron Motsoaledi confirmed the directive had been withdrawn on the eve of an urgent court bid by the lawyers, but he also said this did not change Cabinet’s decision not to renew the special dispensation.

    242 days ago
  • Department of Home Affairs. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    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 moving through the offices in the wake of the pandemic.

    317 days ago
  • FILE: Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi. Picture: GCIS

    WATCH LIVE: Motsoaledi briefing on voter registration weekend plans

    Home Affairs offices are expected to be open to issue identity cards this weekend.

    331 days ago
  • FILE: Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi. Picture: GCIS

    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.

    451 days ago
  • FILE: Department of Home Affairs. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/Eyewitness News

    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.

    459 days ago
  • FILE: The entrance to the Maitland Refugee Reception Centre in Cape Town. Picture: EWN

    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.

    459 days ago
  • Department of Home Affairs. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    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.

    460 days ago
  • FILE: Funeral parlour owners are protesting outside the the Department of Home Affairs in Tshwane on 11 May 2021. Picture: Boikhutso Ntsoko/Eyewitness News

    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.

    460 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals in their makeshift shelters outside the Central Methodist Mission Church in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News.

    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.

    482 days ago
  • Tashreeqa Isaacs from Rosedale in Kariega (Uitenhage), pictured with her child, has not been able to get an identity document or register her baby because she has the same name and date of birth as someone else. Picture: Thamsanqa Mbovane/GroundUp

    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.

    515 days ago
  • FILE: Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi. Picture: GCIS

    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.

    528 days ago
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