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SA Migration Newsletter
07 / 2023 |
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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.
Government is free to change the policy
The government is free to change the policy on the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit, lawyers for the Minister of Home Affairs have argued in court.
• No rights will be taken away when the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) system comes to an end in June, lawyers for the Minister of Home Affairs told the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday.
• The court is hearing an application by the Helen Suzman Foundation and the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa to have the minister set aside the decision.
• Advocate Ismail Jamie said rights that were temporarily conferred in the first place had been allowed to lapse through the passage of time.
• He said it would be impractical to expect the government to have consulted 178,000 ZEP holders.
The lapsing of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) system was a political decision by the Minister of Home Affairs, and does not take away the rights of ZEP holders, the government has argued in court.
President Cyril Ramaphosa at the investment conference in Johannesburg on Thursday. Photo: SA Investment Conference/Twitter
South Africa attracted R1.51 trillion of new investment pledges over the past five years, 26% more than a target set in 2018, president Cyril Ramaphosa said.
New commitments made at an investment conference in Johannesburg on Thursday include those from companies including mobile-phone company Vodacom, miner Anglo American and brewer Heineken, Ramaphosa said at a closing ceremony.
Key investment pledges on Thursday:
Ramaphosa set a target of attracting R2 trillion of new investment in the next five years, as executives pleaded with his government to urgently address the nation’s energy crisis, fix crumbling infrastructure and end rampant crime.
On Tuesday, a South African court will decide if thousands of Zimbabweans can stay back in the country or face possible deportation.
Cape Town, South Africa Thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa face an uncertain future and possible deportation before a June 2023 expiration of their work permits, following an announcement by the home government last year that there will be no extension.
*Matilda Tebogo (not her real name), a 35-year-old shopkeeper, says she is stressed and nervous about what lies ahead for her and her family. The Zimbabwean national has been living and working in Cape Town for more than 10 years under the Zimbabwe Extension Permit (ZEP) scheme.
This week, the Global Immigration team at Smith Stone Walters would like to highlight the following recent updates from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Malaysia, South Africa and the United States.
Australia: Skilled Work Regional Visa
Candidates living and/or working in metropolitan Melbourne can now submit a registration of Interest (ROI) for the Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491) nomination.
The new expanded eligibility criteria opens Victoria’s subclass 491 visa program to skilled migrants living anywhere in Victoria, including previously ineligible metropolitan Melbourne residents who wish to relocate to work and live in a designated regional area of Victoria.
The Constitutional Court recently ruled that children born in South Africa to foreign parents qualify for South African citizenship in terms of Section 2 of the South African Citizenship Act. That is, if you were born in South Africa to foreign parents who have not been admitted as permanent residents, you qualify to apply for South African citizenship upon becoming a major if your birth was registered and if you have lived here all your life, irrespective of the date of your birth and you have not accepted the nationality of another country. The judgment also reduced the term for applying for citizenship by holders of permanent residence from 5 years to 10 years by declaring Regulation 3(2)(a) of the Citizenship Act Regulations unconstitutional.
South African human rights organization the Legal Resources Center (LRC) has initiated a legal challenge against the country’s Department of Home Affairs over the what it says are cumbersome requirements for establishing birth certificates for children born in the country.
The LRC, acting on behalf of 17 parents, last year, filed an application at the Cape Town High Court challenging the Birth and Death registration Act regulations as anti-constitutional, according to reporting by Mail & Guardian. Home Affairs is opposing the application. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. ZEP: no rights were taken away, Home Affairs’ lawyers tell court 3. Investment conference: Businesses pledged R1.5 trillion in 5 years, 26% more than target 4. Why is South Africa not renewing 160,000 Zimbabwean work permits? 5. What`s new in global immigration? 6. New deal for children with foreign parents born in South Africa 7. South Africa’s birth registration system challenged over ‘unconstitutional’ requirements
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