SA Fast Track, a Home Affairs document procurement service company, has gone into liquidation leaving many people out of pocket and without vital documents such as passports and birth certificates.
Hundreds of refugees have been left without legal documentation, leading to violent clashes with Cape Town Metro cops.
A transexual woman wants her gender to be recognised by the Department of Home Affairs, but officials say that they may first want to see the proof in her pudding
In a move to lift restrictions on South Africans traveling to the UK, Home Affairs Minister Gigaba has implemented a new policy that requires British diplomats to obtain a visa when visiting South Africa
Parents have been granted a grace period until 1 June 2015 to gather birth certificates for their children if they’re planning to travel in or out of South Africa in the foreseeable. While making upcoming Christmas travel plans easier for thousands of expats around the globe, it remains advisable for parents to get their documentation ready and in order for when the new laws finally do kick in, as Home Affairs confirms that the guidelines aren’t going anywhere
Home Affairs Deputy Minister Fatima Chohan says the underrepresentation of women in social, political and economic spheres must be addressed if Africa is to develop fully
A Temporary Passport was initially issued as an interim travel document due to longer turn-around times taken to issue a Permanent Tourist Passport valid for ten years.
The Department of Home Affairs has welcomed the conviction and sentence handed to Sanele Zungu, a former senior admin officer in KwaZulu-Natal
Despite ongoing challenges to recent changes to the bewildering landscape of South Africa’s immigration laws, a critical shortage of key skills appears nevertheless to allow prospective immigrants to enter the country on expedited visas
The Zimbabwean diaspora may be in dire straits, as an increasing number of countries is beginning to consider sending refugees back to Zimbabwe
As nearly a thousand immigrants to South Africa lodge grievances against the Department of Home Affairs, it’s perhaps time to rethink SA’s immigration policy
South Africans have never been short on diversity, what with some of the world’s most varied biological spheres and multicultural citizenry. Oh and let’s not forget a range of some of the most inventive names the department of home affairs can come up with.
We asked you, the global SA community, how South Africa House serves your needs. The response? Not the worst, but communications remain a problem and there is ample room for improvement for the incoming High Comissioner to get to work on
119-year-old South African Johanna ‘Gogo’ Mazibuko could be the oldest person in the world, shifting Japan’s Misao Okawa from the Guinness World Record top spot.