Home Affairs and the Budget Gap: Deportation vs Amnesty Following Minister Leon Schreiber’s budget...
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Schreiber’s Home Affairs one year in. Will the momentum stick?
One year into Leon Schreiber’s tenure as Home Affairs Minister – is real change finally within reach?...
On access to healthcare in South Africa and immigration status
In her Business Day opinion, our CEO - Claudia Pizzocri - reflect on the recent 'Operation Dudula'...
Criminal records and South African visa applications
Setting the Criminal Record Straight — South African Immigration and the “Good and Sound Character”...
Sizzling Borders. The Frontlines of Democracy
The management of borders represents a critical point where state authority meets human rights and...
Concourt ruling on citizenship. One size does not fill all.
The Constitutional Court delivered a landmark unanimous judgement on May 6 that declared section...
Landmark Concourt ruling on loss of SA citizenship
The Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered a landmark unanimous judgment on May 6, 2025,...
Realpolitik and ‘national interest’ from an SA immigration perspective
South African Immigration Policy: Business visa exepert insights/ [Some extracts below. Read the full...
The purge of custodianship
On the impeached population register, dissociated citizenry and beyond [Some extracts below. Read the...
Birthright citizenship from the ‘American dream’ to the ‘Rainbow Nation’.
Soil, blood, DNA and identity. Birthright citizenship from the ‘American dream’ to the ‘Rainbow...
Revocation and loss of citizenship is a painful double-edged sword
On the complex topics of deprivation and loss of citizenship and the purge of custodianship. From Waluś...
On the issue of institutional incompetence, the ‘dry rot’ crippling Home Affairs
Schreiber has not been shy of adopting a proactive approach filled with strategic innovation proposals...
The “grey area”, takeaways from Elon Musk’s US visa quarrel from a South African immigration perspective
The “grey area”, takeaways from Elon Musk’s US visa quarrel from a South African immigration...
The visa backlog: Prioritizing quantity vs quality does not restore dignity
The visa backlog: Prioritizing quantity vs quality does not restore dignity [Below an extract - the...
Digital nomad visa South Africa, how wide is its appeal and reach?
A closer look at South Africa's remote work visa as published on Business Day. [An exrtract below] SA’s...
Sons of anarchy — Hunter Biden, Spare and the law of unintended consequences
Sons of anarchy — Hunter Biden, Spare and the law of unintended consequences Read the full opinion...
Department of Home Affairs: Digitization is not the only answer.
Shakespearean parallel extended: Parliament should not play Horatio, digitization is not the only...
The Libyan illegal military training camps in Mpumalanga
The Libyan illegal military training camps. A history of precarious international relations,...
Minister Schreiber nips the ZEP-problem in the bud. Hope at last for working ZEP holders.
Read the full opinion as published on the Daily Maverick. [Below some extracts] The decision and...
Home Affairs: The glasshouse with rubber walls needs real change
Read the edited Opinion as published on Business Day [Original unedited version below] An inherent...