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SA Migration Newsletter
09 / 2023 |
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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.
• Aaron Motsoaledi `interpreted` legislation, without obtaining a legal opinion, to allow the Emirati president and his 680-strong entourage to enter SA.
• The Border Management Act required the designation of an entry point to be gazetted, to allow 30 days for public comment.
• Motsoaledi applied the Immigration Act instead, which doesn`t have this `onerous` requirement.
Home Affairs Minister and self-admitted legal layperson Aaron Motsoaledi `interpreted` legislation, so that the Bulembu Airport could be designated a temporary entry point into South Africa, in time for the visit of the Emirati president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan, and his 680-strong entourage.
Motsoaledi briefed the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs about the unannounced, private visit by Al Nahyan last month, which raised eyebrows, and drew comparisons with the Gupta family`s infamous landing at the Waterkloof Air Force base in 2013.
South Africa has completely fallen under the spell of Russia, China, and their satellites. Once, we were a reliable international partner, respectful of the international rules-based order, but that has now all changed, argues Pieter du Toit. South Africa`s unhinged foreign policy unmoored from logic and reality, that is reached new levels of incomprehension last week during another vote related to Ukraine.
For years his life was in limbo. He struggled to get a job, couldn’t get a driver’s licence and he wasn’t able to get married all because he wasn’t recognised as a South African citizen.
Tebogo Khoza (26) was born in South Africa but he had nothing to prove it. For almost a decade he’s battled to show he is who he says he is and finally he has the precious piece of paper that will allow him to get on with his life.
The North Gauteng high court in Pretoria recently ruled the department of home affairs should register him as a South African and issue him with an identity document.
The first step was giving him a birth certificate and when he received it he could hardly believe his eyes.
Johannesburg, Frustrated with what they call “extreme delays” at the Department of Home Affairs (HA), a South African/Chinese couple took to social media to cast a spotlight on a five-year wait for them to finally live together as a family.
However, HA hit back, saying it was only able to resume permanent residence applications in 2022 after Covid-19 travel restrictions eased around the world. But this is of little to no comfort to the couple who were married in South Africa in 2017 and are still living apart.
Since 2012, refugee rights groups had been embroiled in legal battles with the Department of Home Affairs to have the Cape Town office re-opened.
CAPE TOWN - After a decade of back-and-forth court battles, the Department of Home Affairs finally re-opened its Cape Town Refugee Reception Office.
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi officially opened the doors of the new office in Epping on Tuesday.
This means that refugees and asylum seekers in Cape Town will not have to go to Pretoria, Durban, Eastern Cape or Musina to get their papers in order. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. How Motsoaledi `interpreted` an old law with no legal help to help the Emirati president land 3. SA’s foreign policy has become entitled, childish... while pandering to Russia 4. I’m officially a South African: joy of Limpopo man who’s battled to get an ID for 10 years 5. Home Affairs, please bring my husband home, pleads distressed SA man 6. Home Affairs re-opens Cape Town`s Refugee Reception Office
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