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24 May 2013
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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.
 
 
11 Oct 2010
 
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.
 
 
04 Oct 2010
 
The Zimbabwean amnesty
CHRIS WATTERS
The recently announced amnesty for Zimbabweans who either do not have the correct - or any - temporary residence permit or who instead even have false South African documents, is both good news and...
 
 
20 Sep 2010
 
The skills shortage, Home Affairs and immigration strategies
CHRIS WATTERS
Government announced recently that because of the chaos in some of the SETAS, it had little data on how well it was addressing the skills shortage. Minister Nzimande is quoted as saying that "if we...
 
 
28 Jul 2010
 
South African citizenship and the 2010 Citizenship Amendment Bill
CHRIS WATTERS
The 2010 SA Citizenship Amendment Bill has been tabled in Parliament and the public have been invited to comment on the proposals put forward by the Department of Home Affairs. That said, a number...
 
 
07 Jun 2010
 
The dea(r)th of privacy rights — Home Affairs and the banks
CHRIS WATTERS
Coming from the culture we do, where we lived with, and many by and large accepted the validity of, an all-seeing, all-knowing, ‘big brother' government, South Africans appear to have a...
 
 
 
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