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Best Lawyers® Leading South African immigration lawyer: “Officials need more training”.
CAPE Town-based lawyer Gary Eisenberg has done it again. The outspoken lawyer was recently recognised...
Best Lawyers® SA top immigration lawyer: “Attorneys need to take activist roles”
South African bureaucracy has failed to adequately educate itself on the country’s Constitution and its...
ZSP Update: Minister of Home Affairs finally pieces together the ZSP puzzle!
GOODBYE ZSP, HELLO ZEP! The official statement by the Minister of Home Affairs, Prof Hlengiwe Mkhize,...
Gupta’s citizenship: a lapse in statutory compliance?
There is nothing in South Africa’s citizenship legislation which precludes the minister of Home Affairs...
UCT’s Africa Careers Expo paints a bleak picture for graduates from the continent
UCT held its annual Africa Careers Expo on 23 May as part of a programme of events for Africa Month....
Cape Town’s Gary Eisenberg is top immigration lawyer in South Africa
GARY Eisenberg, founding attorney of Cape Town-based law firm Eisenberg & Associates, was named by...
Shake the bureaucratic tree
On Friday 28 April, Gary Eisenberg appeared on CNBC Africa’s Closing Bell in a segment entitled Fixing...
South Africa’s Immigration System: A Reality Check
Why the South African Government chose to close our country’s borders on 26 May 2014 remains a mystery....
Open letter to the new Minister of Home Affairs: Hlengiwe Mkhize
Dear Minister Mkhize, I congratulate you on your recent appointment as home affairs minister. I have no...
Trouble in immigration paradise?
By Mavuso Msimang Extract of the keynote address by Mavuso Msimang, former Director-General of the...
Passport expiry date now binding & linked to all temporary residence visas!
All our clients are urgently advised that the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has recently issued a...
Malusi Gigaba: The change agent trying to revolutionise South Africa’s immigration policy
In a recent article, How South Africa is Becoming a Closed Society, I decried the endemic, chaotic,...
President Trump: the economic agenda and the impact on emerging markets
As the world witnesses the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, South...
Home Affairs: from “horror affairs” to costly outsourced affairs. Carte Blanche reports on Visa Vitriol.
On Sunday Carte Blanche reported on “Visa Vitriol”. Given our lagging economic growth and widespread...
Are South Africa’s drawbridges up or down?
Are South Africa’s drawbridges up or down? Claire van den Heever asks the country’s premier immigration...
Institutionlised xenophobia? ‘Education is key!’
In June this year South African Government said it would be soon publishing a hate crimes bill for...
Pastor Anderson and his entourage declared “undesirable” by Minister Gigaba
Today’s announcement by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba to deny the homophobic American pastor...
Home Affairs Minister can ban homophobic pastor from entering SA
Gary Eisenberg as interviewed on 702 #NightTalk's Gugs Mhlungu and Sizwe Dhlomo Listen to the full...
Is South Africa facing an institutionalized xenophobia problem?
Is South Africa facing an institutionalized xenophobia problem? This is a question that has been asked...