Judge gives scathing ruling with punitive cost order TANIA BROUGHTON • A woman and three organisations took Home Affairs to court for blocking Identity Documents without following a just administrative process. • About 700,000 IDs were…
The Department of Home Affairs on Friday January 5 said its system was back online and services were once again available to citizens and other clients. The department said it had experienced a technical problem on the State Information…
The portfolio committee on home affairs is concerned budget cuts will hamper the Electoral Commission’s (IEC) efforts to hold a free and fair election in 2024. Committee chairperson Mosa Chabane said while the clean audit for the 2021/22…
Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has issued directions extending the validity period of legally issued visas that expired during the Covid-19 lockdown period. This is to end-June for short-term visas “issued for a period not longer…
The portfolio committee on home affairs has called for an urgent action plan from stakeholder departments at ports of entry in the country, aimed at ensuring adherence to health protocols intended to curb the transmission of Covid-19. The…
All a South African woman who is living and working in the US wants for Christmas is a document from the department of home affairs. After 11 months of “silence” and an urgent court application, the department has finally issued her with…
Home affairs minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi defended his department on Tuesday when MPs grilled him about the escape of controversial church leader Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary. Motsoaledi said home affairs should not be solely blamed…
Three home affairs officials, including one who demanded a R10,000 bribe from an undocumented foreigner in Jane Furse, Limpopo, were arrested on Tuesday. The trio, aged between 30 and 42, were arrested during a sting operation by the…
Minister of home affairs Aaron Motsoaledi personally handed over documents on Monday to the mother of an eight-year-old child from rural KwaZulu-Natal who faced losing out on an R8m foreign inheritance because department officials had,…
Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has ordered his department to urgently comply with a November court order which would allow a minor child to qualify for an R8m overseas inheritance. TimesLIVE on Friday reported that the girl stood…
SA has had more than 50,000 deaths that are not related to Covid-19 since the lockdown was announced. This is according to a home affairs presentation made to parliament’s home affairs portfolio committee. It showed that a total of 50,356…
The department of home affairs will resume normal operating hours from Monday and will expand its services to include the registration of newborn babies and collection of identity documents. Since the lockdown on March 27, home affairs…
Please turn off your phone or switch them to silent: parliament’s home affairs portfolio committee chairperson Hlomani Chauke wants the home affairs department to consider banning frontline staff from using cellphones during working…
People visiting Home Affairs in Cofimvaba near Queenstown‚ Eastern Cape‚ say security guards force them to pay R4 if they need to use the toilet. If they don’t pay‚ they are told to “hold it in” or use an open field nearby to relieve…
