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SA Migration Newsletter
23 / 2022 |
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 SA Migration
International was created out of the need for a
specialist organization to assist people wishing to immigrate,
volunteer, work, bring family, study or open businesses in South
Africa.
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) says it will introduce an ‘online traveller declaration system’ that all travellers need to comply with.
The new system will simplify passenger movement at South African airports, SARS said, and will come into effect from 1 November 2022.
The system aims to collect travel information and, in return, grants a traveller pass via email, said SARS.
Government’s approach to prioritising the employment of South Africans has come under fire.
Centre for Development and Enterprise executive director Ann Bernstein, says government is tackling the topic of critical skills and employment in the wrong way. Bernstein says South Africa is a country that is desperate for growth, with a shortage of skilled people, entrepreneurs, university lecturers and maths teachers.
Home Affairs Minister Motsoaledi and Ramaphosa lied about e-Visa, it collapsed and only started working two months ago, after the department outsourced a private company
IOL
27 Oct 2022
The complicated red-tape within Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has negatively affected the country’s investment opportunities, losing millions yearly because investors can’t readily access the country.
In 2018 Ramaphosa launched the SA investment summit that was meant to attract foreign investment to the country in order to raise the economy and create business opportunities.
However in about 152 investment pledges made since the start of the annual conferences, only 45 projects had been completed, while 57 others were under construction and the rest have failed to get off the ground, resulting in the loss of millions.
Minister’s press statement on the media campaign by the independent newspapers
ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS - 27 October 2022
1. On 20 October 2022, the Star newspaper owned by the Sekunjalo Group of Companies published a prominent article entitled “More ANC graft and sex scandals” in both its print and electronic platforms. The article contained unfounded and what was intended to be damaging allegations of corruption against a hard-working member of the Counter Corruption Branch within the Department of Home of Home Affairs (“DHA”), Mr Eric Nendauni and alleged sexual misconduct by the Minister of Home Affairs (“Minister”) and the Head of the Counter Corruption Branch, Adv Connie Moitse. The allegations are said to emanate from what the journalists claim is “a whistle-blower” but in fact it has been discovered that the lies came from a disgruntled junior administrative clerk in the employ of the DHA.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet has once again been embroiled in alleged corrupt activities and a sex scandal that has seemed to be rife in various government departments in recent years.
Department of Home Affairs’ Deputy Director Counter Corruption & Security, Eric Nendauni has been accused of corruption activities.
Nendauni is based at the head office of Home Affairs in Pretoria.
Various whistle-blowers have approached The Star to expose what they called corruption after they attempted to reach out to Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and other top officials without success.
The Star is in possession of two emails from whistle-blowers attempting to alert Motsoaledi, deputy director-general: counter corruption & security services advocate Connie Moitse, and other senior officials.
The department of home affairs has reversed a decision to centralise the adjudication of long-term visas.
• That plan lasted for only a couple of months, and did not go at all well.
• Embassies ` previously accused of sometimes endangering national security or harming the economy ` are now back in charge.
As of 1 September, South Africa is no longer centralising the adjudication of long-term visas, the department of home affairs (DHA) confirmed on Tuesday.
• The tourism and aviation industries have both been hit hard by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Even before the pandemic hit, the implementation of a full e-visa system was used as an example of how it can be made easier for travellers to visit the country.
• Although it does not fall directly under her department, Minister of Tourism Lindiwe Sisulu addressed the challenges at the annual general assembly of the Airlines Association of Southern Africa.
After 29 years of neoliberal failure in South Africa, foreigners are a convenient scapegoat for an elite that has failed to redistribute wealth.
In South Africa there seems to be a seasonal shift: discussions around Zimbabwean and Basotho workers’ permits are being hosted by the cabinet; laws and administration around visa renewal and work permits have been changed in the last few months; members of the governing party, the ANC, are asking for border reinforcement and openly associating foreigners’ activities in the country with insecurity as opposed to economic growth. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. SARS introducing new ‘travel pass’ for everyone entering or leaving South Africa 3. Critical skills list: Government got it wrong, says expert 4. Home Affairs Minister Motsoaledi and Ramaphosa lied about e-Visa, it collapsed and only started working two months ago, after the department outsourced a private company 5. Minister’s press statement on the media campaign by the independent newspapers 6. While corruption seems to be big in the government corridors, sex scandals among ANC heavyweights have been as massive 7. Home affairs has dropped central adjudication of visas, after months of complaints 8. Converting SA to full e-visa system tripped up by huge backlog, tech challenges, says Sisulu 9. African political history shows the perils of institutionalised xenophobia
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