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SA Migration Newsletter
27 / 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.
`Dear valued clients,
As we come to the end of another year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past year and express our gratitude for your continued support and partnership.
Sa Migration has had a successful year thanks in no small part to your loyalty and trust in our products and services. We are grateful for the opportunity to serve you and to be a part of your success.
The timelines for winding up an estate have improved since the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic but are still likely to take longer than before Covid, as pandemic backlogs and other problems persist.A year was a good expectation for an estate where the deceased left a sound will and the estate was dealt with by an experienced executor, Angelique Visser, Fiduciary Institute of Southern Africa (FISA) National Councillor, says.
Contractors will be entitled to statutory holiday pay, minimum wage, and vacation pay, Ed Canning writes.
It is a given that the pandemic had a dramatic impact on the working world for many people. Among those are people who lost their employment and decided to become consultants. They set themselves up as independent contractors, covering their own taxes and simply invoiced their clients on a fee-for-service basis. More than a few of these consultants decided they liked working from home too much, and when the employer demanded a return to the office, they resigned and set up their own consulting businesses.
Pretoria - A judge gave the Department of Home Affairs a tongue lashing for wasting taxpayers’ money by not doing its work and ignoring applications made by the public.
He said these ended up in the courts, usually with the taxpayers footing the legal bill on behalf of the department.
Judge MP Phooko, sitting in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, said it was time “Home Affairs got its house in order”.
He pointed out the courts were flooded with applications from people who could not get any answers from the department, regarding their legal status in the country.
In the latest such application, British citizen Jonathan Firth applied nearly four years ago for permanent residency with the department. After he did not receive any response from the department two years later, he instructed a lawyer to assist him.
The lawyer wrote letters to the department requesting information regarding the status of Firth’s application, but there was no response.
Pretoria - A judge was outraged by the conduct of the director-general of Home Affairs, who for years simply turned a blind eye towards an elderly German couple’s desperate plight to retire in South Africa.
The couple fully qualify in terms of the law to obtain permanent residency here, yet their application was turned down by the department.
Western Cape High Court Judge Vincent Saldanha said he considered holding the official personally liable for the legal costs.
He commented that the court noted the egregious conduct of the official for the manner in which he had conducted this litigation and in handling the couple’s application. Jakob Maier, 80 and his wife Maria, 78, dearly want to retire in Cape Town, where they bought a house about 11 years ago.
A new report by the recruitment group Michael Page has highlighted a strong demand for specific professional skills in South Africa, noting that global companies are poaching experienced South African staff while local employers are looking for candidates with the same talent.
Michael Page Africa, a division of the UK-headquartered PageGroup, recruits managers and senior executives on the African continent.
Based on data captured by the group from job advertisements and insights from consultants, it has compiled a new report on the most in-demand skills and experience needed within various sectors of South Africa.
Burundi’s immigration policies for other Africans have improved significantly, with the country’s visa openness ranking rising by 32 places in the year and becoming the second most open country in the East African Community (EAC) bloc.
According to a new report by the African Development Bank (AfDB), Burundi’s rise, mostly since 2021, is a result of Bujumbura accepting all travellers from Africa into the country either on visa-free travel (all East Africans) or visas on arrival (all other Africans). Burundi does not have electronic visas yet, but it does not require Africans to apply for entry permits before travelling to its territory.
Burundi’s decision to allow all Africans to travel without visa applications helped it rise from position 44 to 12, making it one of the most improved countries on the continent’s visa openness ranking alongside Benin, Nigeria and Ethiopia
Pretoria - Come Wednesday when the country’s schools open for the 2020 academic year, no school may turn a pupil away - local or foreign - if they do not have IDs, permits or passports.
This is after a judgment delivered on December 12 by the high court in Grahamstown in which it declared the admission policy of the Department of Basic Education unconstitutional where it barred undocumented children - both South African and non-national children - from attending school because they were undocumented.
The judge president of that division, Judge Selby Mbenenge, ruled that the department acted unconstitutionally in not permitting children to continue receiving education in public schools, purely because they lacked ID documents. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. Thank you valued clients from SA Migration - 2022 3. Winding up an estate still takes longer than before the pandemic, what you can do 4. Employers beware: new legislation starting Jan. 1 makes employees out of contractors 5. Judge tells Home Affairs to get house in order, stop wasting taxpayers’ money 6. Immigration: German couple may retire in SA after long unnecessary legal battle 7. The most in-demand jobs and skills in South Africa 8. Burundi ranks as second most visa-open in East Africa 9. Judgment ensures kids are at school, documented or not
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