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SA Migration Newsletter
23 / 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.
Although many wealthy South Africans are packing their bags for the UK, new migration data shows that the inverse is also true.
The latest Wealth Migration Report 2023 from Henley & Partners and New World Wealth shows that around 400 High Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs) those with a net worth of over US$1 million (roughly R18 million) emigrated out of South Africa in 2022 with a further 500 leaving the country in 2023.
The UK is an emigration hotspot for South Africans with the 2021 UK census noting that over 215,000 South Africans live on the island.
Migration may be an increasingly contentious issue in South Africa, but that does not justify taking an axe to refugee rights and chipping away at the country’s commitments under the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention, as the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) recently proposed alongside other immigration reforms.
A wave of ribbon-cutting ceremonies is sweeping the Saudi capital as multinationals face a January deadline to open regional headquarters in the Gulf kingdom or lose out on government contracts.
In what has become a common scene, executives in suits and Saudi officials in white robes gather to inaugurate the new offices, sipping Arabic coffee in a haze of incense smoke while singing the praises of last year`s fastest-growing G20 economy.
Although South Africa has one of the most progressive asylum laws and exceptional refugee protection frameworks in the world, the disunion between law and practice has allowed the blatant disregard of the law to thrive. The safety and security of the refugees who come to South Africa in the hopes of escaping the injustices of their homeland is internationally regulated by The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (“UDHR, 1948”) which is the foundation of international human rights, and, more directly, by the 1951 Refugee Convention (1951 convention) and its 1967 Protocol.
Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi caused some confusion this week by claiming that his department was not exacerbating South Africa’s skills crisis because there was no backlog of visas.
This comment came just a few weeks after the minister told parliament that the department was sitting with a backlog of over 74,000 visa applications that would only be cleared up by mid-2024.
7. Here is your hand-written visa. Welcome to SA`s embassy in Germany, hamstrung by faulty equipment 
• Staff at South Africa’s embassy in Berlin, Germany are issuing handwritten visas due to faulty printers.
• Officials also have to use private wifi routers to connect to the internet.
• In June, the Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation conducted a fact-finding oversight visit to embassies in Germany and Portugal.
Diplomatic staff at South Africa’s mission in Germany, the country`s third largest trading partner, are issuing handwritten visas because printers are faulty, telephones lines are not working, and officials use private routers to connect to wifi.
In June, the Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation conducted a fact-finding oversight visit on the status of the vacant state-owned properties under the management of South Africa’s embassies in Germany and Portugal.
FOR JUST R300 a month, and if you are connected to a woman by the name of Priscilla, you can easily get yourself a foreign national husband. A recent SABC report revealed that a woman identified as Rebone Shabir accused Priscilla of being involved in setting up Limpopo women with Pakistanis as husbands.
The SABC reported that several women from Limpopo also stepped forward following their expose of the pre-arranged marriages with spaza shop owners and other foreigners.
Department of International Relations and Cooperation head of public diplomacy Clayson Monyela said the embassy in Germany had a functional visa system, email, telephone, and printers.
• South Africa`s embassies across the world are struggling with bandwidth and other ICT challenges.
• The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has upgraded several systems, but in some cases, challenges still need to be solved.
• The department`s Clayson Monyela says visas are issued manually when systems are down. SA
Migration International
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Migration
Tel.: +27 (0)71 632 9555 Fax: +27 (0)21 461 2611 Email: info@sami.co.za
Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. Reverse emigration twist for South Africa 3. South Africa Mulls Major Immigration Overhaul 4. Foreign firms race to open Saudi offices before deadline 5. The Procedural Flaw in the Asylum Seeker Application Process 6. South Africa visa chaos - the good news and the bad news 7. Here is your hand-written visa. Welcome to SA`s embassy in Germany, hamstrung by faulty equipment 8. Fake marriages a growing concern for Home Affairs as R300 a month gets illegal immigrants SA wives 9. SA embassy in Portugal - gripped by tech challenges - decided against handwritten visas
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