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Sources inside the Department of Home Affairs have told the City Press that Home Affairs officials are methodically breaking down systems as part of widespread corruption within the department.

Government is in the process of developing the new National Identity System (NIS), which will replace the current National Population Register and become the backbone of all Home Affairs functions in South Africa.

South Africa plans to launch a new state-owned entity in 2022 in the form of the Border Management Authority (BMA), aimed at improving South Africa’s borders.

The Department of Home Affairs has extended operating times at front offices and ports of entry to ease congestion associated with the festive season.

The Department of Home Affairs has withdrawn their immigration directive on the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP). Essentially, this means that Home Affairs has decided not to renew permits granted to more than 250 000 Zimbabweans in South Africa.

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” (Hunter S. Thompson)  Since 2005 businesses have been repeatedly told “get your PAIA (Promotion of Access to Information Act) manual sorted now, the deadline is approaching”. And every 5 years since then, those (mostly smaller) businesses temporarily exemptedRead more

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago” (Warren Buffett) Whilst the first and most important step in your estate planning is always to have in place a professionally drawn and regularly updated will (“Last Will and Testament”), there is another aspect which demands your urgent attention, particularlyRead more

“… it is by now long established in our law that the owner or other person or entity in control of a shopping mall has a legal duty to take reasonable steps to ensure that its premises are ‘reasonably safe’ for those members of the public who might frequent them … What such steps mayRead more

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher) History has not recorded whether Seneca himself was “lucky” in the property market of his time (Rome’s land registration records from two millennia ago have unfortunately not survived the ravages of time and Imperial collapse) but his wise words areRead more

The Department of Employment and Labour is developing a new Labour Migration Policy aimed at regulating foreign workers in South Africa.