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SA Migration Newsletter
09 / 2022 |
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JOHANNESBURG - Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that migration in South Africa had been a crisis for more than a decade now.
The department has set up a Border Management Authority, however, there are no boots on the ground yet.
The Home Affairs Department has set up a Border Management Authority, however, there are no boots on the ground yet. Minister Motsoaledi has explained why the authority has not started working yet.
In September, Nakampe Masiapato, was appointed commissioner and David Chilembe as deputy commissioner, however, six months later, there was still no deployment of guards.
Speaking on 702, Motsoaledi said that it would take time before there were any results.
Listening to Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and some of his Cabinet colleagues talking about the immigration question, you could be forgiven for believing that they were powerless folk.
It is as if the crisis of illegal immigration and the pressure it puts on public resources and services just miraculously happened.
You would also swear that nobody foresaw the violent backlash from working class South Africans against foreign nationals.
Motsoaledi was on JJ Tabane’s show Power to Truth on TV channel eNCA this week, pontificating about this crisis.
It is really bizarre that government seems to be waking up to this tinderbox issue only now that the populists and vigilantes are fanning the flames of hate towards immigrants and taking the law into their own hands.
Since lockdown asylum seekers and refugees have been denied crucial services
Immigrants are struggling to document their status because of the continued closure of in-person services at Home Affairs refugee reception offices.
• Refugees and asylum seekers are facing a myriad of problems because Home Affairs has not provided crucial in-person services for two years.
• Despite a blanket extension of permits various government departments and private sector facilities are not accepting valid documents, not even some Home Affairs officers.
• There are numerous complaints of problems with the Home Affairs online system introduced for permit renewals.
• The credit rating agency Moody`s upgraded its outlook on South Africa from `negative` (which meant the next step could potentially be another downgrade) to `stable`.
• While government bonds are still rated as `junk`, Moody`s says South Africa`s fiscal position has `markedly recovered`.
• It praised the state`s ability to keep growth in the public sector wage bill to below inflation.
The credit rating agency Moody`s upgraded its outlook on South Africa from “negative†to “stableâ€.
The Bank of America Securities` annual Sun City Conference had more investors upbeat about SA this year.
• There was a much more upbeat sentiment about South Africa among international investors as this year`s Bank of America Securities annual Sun City Conference.
• Some 92 institutions from outside of South Africa attended, and requested more than 500 meetings with local companies.
• High commodity prices and rising interest rates have made SA more attractive as other emerging markets peers fade.
An immigration officer and an Ethiopian who tried to set up a huge illegal-permit operation were each sentenced to 15 years behind bars.
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An immigration officer who paid R150,000 to get 5,000 blank permits for fraudulent use by foreign nationals has been sentenced to 15 years in jail, the home affairs department said on Wednesday.
The immigration officer, Nasi Seqola, was nabbed alongside an Ethiopian national who was working with her. The Ethiopian, Biru Yosef Alem, was in possession of a permanent r
Calls have reignited for an overhaul of the Department of Home Affairs after a cable breakage shutdown services across the country.
The breakage, which connects to the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), caused the department’s services to come to a standstill on Friday.
It managed to restore its online service only yesterday afternoon.
Home Affairs Ministry spokesperson Siya Qoza said the department will be extending operating hours today to compensate for the time lost.
Due to the network outage, Qoza said the department ran limited services which included passport collections, and handwritten death certificates for burial purposes.
Since the lockdown began asylum seekers and refugees have been denied crucial services by government.
Terrence is a Zimbabwean refugee in South Africa. He has tried seven times to renew his status through the Home Affairs online portal, but he has never received a response, he says.
His papers expired in October 2020, but Home Affairs announced that asylum seeker and refugee permits that expired after 15 March 2020 have been extended up to and including 30 April 2022. This was because Home Affairs had closed its refugee reception offices since lockdown.
Terrence wants to officially marry his customary law wife. So he went in person to the Regional Home Affairs office in central Johannesburg, only to be told by a supervisor to bring “a valid document†because his asylum document had expired. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. Motsoaledi: Migration in SA has been a crisis for more than a decade 3. Like a deer in the headlights 4. Shambolic Home Affairs leaves legal immigrants undocumented 5. Moody`s upgrades South Africa`s outlook from ‘negative’ to ‘stable’ 6. From zero to hero: South Africa is hot among overseas investors at conference 7. Immigration officer who tried to buy 5,000 permits gets 15 years in jail 8. Overhaul calls growing at Home Affairs after shutdown 9. Chaotic Home Affairs system leaving immigrants living legally in SA undocumented
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