Recent interventions at Home Affairs raise a pressing question: can the Department translate legal obligations and policy decisions into effective administration? Within one week, Home Affairs’ leadership has taken two exceptional steps to address the consequences of...
Immigration Directive 13 of 2026 The Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Leon Schreiber, has issued Immigration Directive 13 of 2026, waiving the requirement that applications for visa extensions or changes of status or conditions be submitted at least 60 days before the...
Home Affairs News: Minister Schreiber waives 60 days filing rule
Two years into Leon Schreiber’s tenure as Minister of Home Affairs, South Africa’s immigration system is showing signs of meaningful reform. In her latest Business Day opinion, our Claudia Pizzocri considers the progress made, while examining the policy gaps that remain around remote work, retired person visas and the treatment of visa overstays.
As debates around citizenship, migration and national identity become increasingly polarised, perhaps the greatest misconception is that citizenship is principally about migration. Historically, it has always been about membership.
Home Affairs waives the medical report for SA temporary and permanent residence applications under Directive 10 of 2026, effective 8 July 2026.
South Africa possesses a constitutional vocabulary that many democracies do not have in the same form. The question is whether political leadership has the courage to use it.
The department is finally proactively targeting the deeper foundations of mobility: corruption, identity integrity and digital capability.
The foreigner-as-enemy is not born in the statute book. It is produced by framing, by mismanaged expectation, and by the repeated suggestion that immigration control can solve failures that lie elsewhere.
A simple image of mismatched effort for when a house is burning is a fitted one here. In this opinion our CEO, Claudia Pizzocri, published on Daily Maverick, she argues that while the Department points to initiatives, concessions and reform gestures, the underlying...