Home Affairs

Parliament’s Home Affairs committee members permitted to consult their parties on the Electoral Amendment Bill

The committee remains of the view that it seeks to present a fair and reasonable legislation for both independent and political parties

Joburg Post·almost 2 years ago

Parliament to decide on the Electoral Amendment Bill at their next meeting

The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs has continued to consider the Electoral Amendment Bill and resolved that at its next meeting it will make substantive decisions on the Bill to enable the legal support team to draft the Bill for...

Joburg Post·almost 2 years ago

Minister of Home Affairs, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi opens a new office at a shopping centre

The Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, opened a new Home Affairs office at the Menlyn Park Shopping Centre in Tshwane today. This is following promises to ensure that the services of the department are easily accessed by all....

Tshegofatso Makola·about 1 year ago

Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, briefs parliament on the Electoral Amendment Bill

Dr Motsoaledi told the committee that there was massive mobilization against the Bill by organisations who believed that there was something grossly wrong with it

Parliamentary Press·over 1 year ago

DA calls on Minister Motsoaledi to intervene in queue chaos outside Home Affairs offices

The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls on the Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, to implement urgent queue management measures outside of Home Affairs offices to keep citizens safe.Despite scenes of citizens huddled in long queues...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

Zimbabwean Exemption Permits extended

Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has extended the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP) for another six months.

Neo Poho·11 months ago

South Africa’s immigration proposals are based on false claims and poor logic – experts

Since the Refugees Act was passed in 1998, only about 300,000 people have been granted refugee status. Many of these have since left South Africa or needed to reapply (so they may have been counted more than once). Of these 300,000, only...

Loren B Landau - Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand and Rebecca Walker - Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand·5 months ago