Home affairs department
Motsoaledi 'worried’ about 2019 system crash affecting SA's economy
The system crash in 2019 also saw the loss of information and scores of CVs of people applying for government jobs.
The department came under fire last year after it announced it wouldn't be renewing the permits of almost 200,000 Zimbabwean nationals who fled the neighbouring country over a decade ago.
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has hit back at the foundation for its legal bid to stop the termination of the Zimbabwean exemption permit.
The Bangladeshi and Pakistani nationals allegedly arrived on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha earlier this week.
The department has also temporarily extended operating times at busy ports of entry to facilitate fast and safe cross border movements during the Easter period.
The Home Affairs Ministry says services at its offices have been restored countrywide.
Systems across hundreds of home affairs offices were offline on Friday morning impacting almost all services except passport collections while officials had to submit handwritten death certificates in order for residents to bury their loved ones.
Last week, the Home Affairs Department gazetted an updated critical skills list for South Africa highlighting scarce skills in the country.
He referenced Malawian fugitive Shepherd Bushiri who is facing fraud and money laundering charges to the tune of R102 million.
Head of policy for Home Affairs, Thulani Mavuso, said that they did virtual consultations in May with various sectors and they were now having physical meetings starting in the Western Cape.
The department has obtained a court interdict prohibiting protestors from intimidating staff and those visiting their offices.
The body representing the undertakers called the Unification Task Team on Monday said if government didn’t address their concerns, they would go on a full-blown national strike.
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that the decision to temporarily suspend certain services was made after careful consideration.
This happened on Tuesday while Home Affairs Deputy Minister Njabulo Nzuza was visiting the border to monitor operations.
The department has finally managed to clear a traffic jam at the busy border that saw people camping out for days.
“Those are the officials to be held responsible and if they don’t want to give us the names of those officials, the buck stops with the minister. The minister must take the fall, he must resign.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa is visiting the Home Affairs head office in Tshwane as part of his commitment to promote good governance and professionalism in the public sector.
This was revealed by Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi in a written parliamentary reply on Tuesday.
Nomathamsanqa Swartbooi was among those struggling to get assistance from the Department of Home Affairs after discovering she was fraudulently married to an unknown man.