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Labor is under fresh pressure over its management of immigration detainees set free by the High Court after the alleged bashing of a Perth grandmother.

Law firm, Norton Rose Fullbright, is challenging the Home Affairs Departments application to have 32 of the survivors deported.

South Africa should withdraw from the UN refugee protection regimen — and re-enter with exceptions on refugee rights — Home Affairs Minister Motsoaledi.

This week marks the two-year anniversary since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Days earlier, the Australian federal government announced an increase of its humanitarian visa intake from 17,875 to 20,000 refugees.

Home Affairs says it has allowed supervised experimentation with ChatGPT in some of its divisions, including its refugee and cyber teams, as the department boss awaits broader direction from government.

From Tafelkop in Limpopo, Ngwelezane in KwaZulu-Natal to Mpumalanga and elsewhere, the governing ANC is rolling out a campaign to support the Electoral Amendment Bill — the technicist changes to accommodate independents in national and provincial polls rather than wholesale electoral reform.

Home Affairs has opened services for South Africans but asylum seekers remain shut out

Home Affairs has opened services for South Africans but asylum seekers remain shut out.

Many ministerial speaking minutes were spent talking about changes to the marriage regimen, currently set out in three different acts, and border management, where the Border Management Authority – “the cornerstone of our efforts to improve security at borders” – got a final allocation of R120-million, rather than R28-million.  While Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told Parliament his department had “many initiatives in the pipeline; some are legislative and policy initiatives...

Just over half of the sanctions have been processed so far, and it is doubtful that all of them have been applied