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...
Immigration Directive 7 of 2026 refers to a further “EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY CONCESSION FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS RELATED TO DELAYED PROCESSING OF WAIVER, VISA AND APPEAL APPLICATIONS” marks a further administrative development in South Africa’s immigration framework.
A public comment on the Revised Draft White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection. do we need a complete overhaul, or do we need the discipline of targeted reform, real accountability, and digital transformation to make the existing framework work as intended, rather than declaring legislative failure as a pretext for wider discretion?
In Europe, governments are rolling out wallets and electronic identity cards in the name of secure logins and smoother borders. South Africa is stepping on to this stage with unusual speed and confidence.