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21 Nov 2011
 
 
The NDP and Home Affairs
CHRIS WATTERS
With the NDP, as proposed, the government (or at least Manuel’s office) begins at last to come to terms with what informed immigration policies can do for the country’s economic malaise. There...
 
 
14 Oct 2011
 
South African ‘Refugees’ in Canada
CHRIS WATTERS
The media reported recently, and perhaps with a little less passion than previously, that the Federal Court of Appeal [“FCA”] had dismissed Mr. Huntley’s appeal (against the refusal of his...
 
 
10 Oct 2011
 
The Department Of Home Affairs is failing refugees
CHRIS WATTERS
What is it with so many South Africans and refugees? Why do so many have such a jaundiced view of people who are “forrin”?
 
 
28 Jun 2011
 
Emigration from South Africa: Sound bites and other silliness
CHRIS WATTERS
It is well-known, except perhaps to one or other Government spokesperson, that South Africa is plagued by a skills shortage and endemic un- or under-employment. At the same time one of the many...
 
 
24 Jun 2011
 
The exodus of the South African refugee - The 'Huntley' case revisited
CHRIS WATTERS
Traditionally, I have been very wary of relying on statistics in the immigration context, mindful of the image conjured up by the saying attributed to WIE Gates about “the man who drowned...
 
 
11 Apr 2011
 
Home Affairs and its backlogs – More of the Emperors' clothes?
CHRIS WATTERS
George Eliot is accredited with posing the question: ‘What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.’ It appears that someone at Home Affairs missed the ‘George...
 
 
09 Feb 2011
 
Do we really need jobs & skills – Ostrichism and Home Affairs
CHRIS WATTERS
The response of the Department of Home Affairs to the public input to the Immigration Amendment Bill, 2010, may lead some to believe that there are officials at Home Affairs who have their heads...
 
 
08 Feb 2011
 
The Immigration Amendment Bill 2010
CHRIS WATTERS
The Department recently presented its latest Amendment to the Immigration Act against the background of the Zimbabwean amnesty which media reports describe as pointing to a new policy on migration.
 
 
 
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