Editor: A story about Port Elizabeth is the 'story of the day' on Daily Maverick. I just wish that we were rather featured for a good story and not this one: Writing for the Daily Maverick, Simon Allison says: After a protracted legal battle, the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office was to open its doors on Tuesday morning, as ordered by the Supreme Court of Appeal. But those doors will remain firmly closed leaving thousands of asylum seekers vulnerable. The department of Home Affairs … [Read more...] about PE Featured as Story of the Day
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PE refugee reception centre was ‘like a tourist bus’
The Department of Home Affairs wants to make late birth registrations more difficult so that it can weed out chancers, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Fatima Chohan said on Tuesday. Speaking during the home affairs briefing in Parliament, she said: "We are going to make screening more difficult because most [of those] who are taking up late registrations are failed asylum seekers who have not left the country. Then [they] try their luck for South African citizenship through late registration … [Read more...] about PE refugee reception centre was ‘like a tourist bus’
