7 December 2020
An article from 1 December in IOL reports that foreign asylum seekers in South Africa have had a significant legal victory. A Western Cape High Court has ruled that asylum seekers will have the opportunity to renew their visas for valid reasons, without fear of being treated as an illegal foreigner and returned home.
Home Affairs has been interdicted from implementing certain provisions of the Refugees Act and new regulations implemented in January 2020, which sought to return asylum seekers back to their home country, where they could face detention without trial, rape, torture or death, simply for being a month late in renewing a visa.
