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SA Migration Newsletter
21 / 2024 |
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 SA Migration
International was created out of the need for a
specialist organization to assist people wishing to immigrate,
volunteer, work, bring family, study or open businesses in South
Africa.
People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anaemic, government statistics show.
Data released by Statistics New Zealand on Tuesday showed that 131 200 people departed New Zealand in the year ended June 2024, provisionally the highest on record for an annual period. Around a third of these were headed to Australia.
While net migration, the number of those arriving minus those leaving, remains at high levels, economists also expect this to wane as the number of foreign nationals wanting to move to New Zealand falls due to the softer economy.
The data showed of those departing 80 174 were citizens, which was almost double the numbers seen leaving prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber warned those who engage in corruption that they would be pursued.
He was speaking following the sentencing of home affairs official Judy Zuma who was jailed to 12 years for passport fraud.
Zuma was sentenced this week in the Durban Commercial Crime Court after pleading guilty to a string of counts including corruption, fraud, and breaching the Immigration Act and the Identification Act.
Lawyers for Human Rights takes this issue to the High Court next month.
Lawyers for Human Rights, representing the Scalabrini Centre, is heading to the court next month to apply for an urgent interdict to prevent the arrests of new asylum seekers. Archive
• Thousands of people coming into South Africa from war-torn countries or countries rife with political unrest, say they live in constant fear of being arrested.
• This is despite their numerous attempts, some since 2020, to apply for asylum at the Department of Home Affairs, but to no avail.
• According to leaders of immigrant communities in Diepsloot, they are aware of at least 15 people currently held at the Lindela Repatriation Centre due to their inability to apply for asylum documents.
For the past eight years, Mqokeleli Sigwintshi has been trying to get a birth certificate from the Department of Home Affairs for his son, who is now nine years old.
Sigwintshi said in 2015, his wife, with whom he had a traditional marriage, gave birth to their son at the Willowvale Health Centre.
A year later, his wife visited her family in Mthatha.
The government says social media platforms `clearly need to do far more` after it emerged a list purporting to contain the names and addresses of immigration lawyers was being spread online.
Initially shared on the Telegram messaging app - along with the phrase “no more immigration” - it has now begun appearing on other platforms.
Lawyers have told the BBC they have been advised by police to work from home, board up office windows and install fireproof letterboxes.
More than 1 100 people have signed a petition calling on the government of Zimbabwe to review a decision to hike the cost of a passport by nearly 50%.
On 26 July, the Zimbabwean consulate in Johannesburg announced that the price of a passport would rise from $170 (about R3 100) to $250 (about R4 540).
“The Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has directed that all e-Passports applications that are processed at the Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa, shall be handled as express/emergency applications in terms of Statutory Instrument 1 of 2024,” the consulate said.
Chidimma Adetshina’s success should be a reason to celebrate SA’s diverse heritage
The SA Citizenship Act of 1995 outlines the criteria for citizenship,
Stellenbosch University is one of the universities in the country favoured by international students. (Stellenbosch University/Facebook)
• A total of 20 942 students from Africa and abroad are studying at 15 of South Africa`s 26 universities.
• The University of Johannesburg has 4 148 international students, including 1 614 from Zimbabwe.
• Deputy Minister of Higher Education Dr Mimmy Gondwe said international students enjoy studying in SA because it`s home to some of the top-ranked universities in the world. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. People leave New Zealand in record numbers as economy bites 3. If you engage in corruption, we will pursue you until you are locked up’ - Home affairs minister cracks the whip 4. Asylum seekers fear arrest but can’t access documents 5. Father unable to register his son because he is not the mother 6. Government concerned by immigration lawyer `hitlist` 7. Anger at huge jump in Zimbabwean passport price 8. SA Citizenship Act a matter of identity, inclusion and unity 9. Global students flock to SA universities for a rich cultural and academic experience
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