A power outage at the State Information Technology Agency (Sita) on Friday left home affairs virtually nonoperational, according to a Business Day report. The outage also affected the systems of other government departments, including the websites of the presidency...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has set out to disprove Malusi Gigaba’s claim that he was winning the so-called “war on queues”. On Wednesday, DA shadow minister of home affairs Haniff Hoosen visited the northern Beitbridge border post and found that staff were unable to...
The Department of Home Affairs’ campaign to improve efficiency in its branches is off to a slow start, said Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba, speaking at a media briefing in Pretoria on 23 July. The department’s “War on Queues” campaign was launched in April this...
There is nothing in South Africa’s citizenship legislation which precludes the minister of Home Affairs from granting citizenship by naturalisation under exceptional circumstances. However, the minister is precluded from acting at his pleasure without judiciously...
In a recent article, How South Africa is Becoming a Closed Society, I decried the endemic, chaotic, inefficiency at the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). I warned that bureaucratic barriers to the inflow of foreigners are threatening South Africa’s viability as a...
