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Home Affairs offices will be offline for a week
The department has alerted clients that 140 of its offices around SA will be offline from next Friday.
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Home Affairs given 3 months to reopen PE refugee centre
This comes after its Constitutional Court bid, appealing a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment, failed.
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SA to relax visa rules after tourism industry suffers
Industry leaders have said the new rules are costing around $540 million a year in lost revenue.
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Hanekom: I'm not at loggerheads with Gigaba over visa laws
The Tourism Minister says he and his Home Affairs counterpart share a common purpose of protecting SA.
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Cope calls on Home Affairs minister to address corruption
The party has urged Malusi Gigaba to do more to tackle corruption at Home Affairs offices in the country.
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Visa negligence gets UK baby banned from SA
Officials say the UK-born child had overstayed on her visa by 18 days and would be banned for 5 years.
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‘99% of Zimbabwean permit applications adjudicated’
Malusi Gigaba says only 26,000 of the 198,000 approved permits must still be picked up from centres.
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East London child snatcher may have skipped SA
The Hawks assisted by Interpol and Home Affairs officials are probing the disappearance of the little girl.
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Police launch manhunt after nanny abducts child
It’s understood the nanny asked for R500,000 ransom from the child’s parents.
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Operation Fiela seizes R800k worth of counterfeit goods
Thirteen premises and more than a 100 vehicles were searched in Parow.
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ANALYSIS: Is there new evidence on SA child trafficking numbers?
Africa Check asks if there’s new data to back the claim that 30,000 children are trafficked each year in SA.
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Corruption at Home Affairs refugee centres in the spotlight
Corruption Watch says Home Affairs officials are running a black market at the expense of vulnerable refugees.
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Calls for Home Affairs to end corruption at refugee centres
Foreign nationals reportedly have to pay bribes at reception offices to have their paperwork finalised.
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Dutch teens expected in SA this week
The eight were forced to return to the Netherlands for failing to produce unabridged birth certificates.
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Home Affairs sticks to its guns on new visa laws
Home Affairs says there's no concrete evidence proving tourism figures dropped because of the new visa laws.
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'New visa regulations designed to protect children'
Home Affairs said that the new regulations are designed for national security and to protect children.
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‘SA immigration regulations are not going anywhere’
Concerns have been raised about a requirement that demands children carry unabridged birth certificates.
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'Drop in tourism not linked to new visa rules'
Home Affairs says xenophobic attacks & Ebola could have led to the decrease in visitor figures.
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Home affairs defends SA tourism drop
Travel bodies have reported a massive drop in air ticket sales, but Home Affairs says this is not its fault.
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Dept denies ignoring tourism industry on new visa rules
From Monday, children entering or exiting South Africa will need to have their unabridged birth certificates.
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Home Affairs dealing with backlog of unabridged birth certificates
With new visa regulations being implmented on Monday, the dept has a backlog of 4,000 applications.
