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Judiciary is part of the state. And they are aware that the Home Affairs Department was busy with the procedural proceedings of this matter. They should have allowed the Home Affairs to finish with the procedures and then the Home Affairs come back to them and
this. So, this is a judgment they have to execute as an implementing agent. I'm talking about Home Affairs, right? Home Affairs has been at pains to express the fact that there's been a lot of disinformation and misinformation about their role in this by many
Or not. And noting already the challenges in home affairs, and one could argue that the trust deficit that between home affairs and the people, and all that we've seen. Do we trust the home affairs processes to adjudicate appropriately and ethically when it
In a way, saying Home Affairs, capacitate yourself because this is what you need to do. So it doesn't have to be explicitly mentioning that they can't instruct Home Affairs, but Home Affairs knows that by this ruling, they are supposed to be capacitated. And I
the supreme law of the land. And everyone has to observe those laws, including the Department of Home Affairs. So, if the Department of Home Affairs are not following through on the constitutional judgment and the order that was passed down, they are
Now that there is another comment that we made the Minister regarding the capacity of the home affairs. He said home affairs has caused implementation of this contact decision, so my question is that why are we only looking at the capacity of home affairs? Are
court ruling, of course, Parliament has to deal with it in 24 months, but your responsibilities as home affairs continue. Right now, there are cases mounting against home affairs where you're cited as the Minister of Home Affairs, where you're not complying
The home affairs. The problem is not home affairs. The problem is the United Nations Prohibition for refugees. They are the one they granted mission with the government of South Africa. So the problem is the government of South Africa, they get granted money,
Why the protesters decided to go and protest at the Home Affairs Office? Soweto does not have a refugee reception center. So the expectation would be that there are no people queuing up seeking asylum at the Soweto Home Affairs. That's very correct. Soweto
on the 7th of July. Correct. We looked at the court judgment. We understood what it means. It says to Home Affairs: remove administrative hurdles that are likely to ensure that a deserving asylum seeker is not getting through. So that court judgment comes out.
We understood what it means. It says to Home Affairs: remove administrative hurdles that are likely to ensure that a deserving asylum seeker is not getting through. So that court judgment comes out. And then what has triggered this, Bongan? It's the cues at
Home affairs and launch an application. And knowing that Home Affairs doesn't have capacity, they will find themselves sitting here for six months, 12 months, three years, while waiting for those three or four people in home affairs to adjudicate their
judgment on asylum seekers. The Apex Court made a ruling that asylum seekers should be assisted at Home Affairs offices regardless of their status in the country. The decision was implemented by the Department of Home Affairs, but was met with violent
as the vehicles. So one of the questions I wanted to ask, and I don't know how close you are to the Home Affairs officers now, but the Home Affairs Officers were the site perhaps of where the violence began over the last couple of days. Can you give me a sense
We were on 147,000. The Auditor General, back in 2019 already, said with the current workforce under Home Affairs, to clear the backlog would take 68 years. That was in 2019. Now, obviously, fast forward six years later, seven years later, that would be the
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this. So, this is a judgment they have to execute as an implementing agent. I'm talking about Home Affairs, right? Home Affairs has been at pains to express the fact that there's been a lot of disinformation and misinformation about their role in this by many
The responsibility that lies with home affairs. You also make that point, South Africans, for constitutional reform, for home affairs to balance constitutional obligations with national security and the interests of South Africans. How do they do so in this
to that office, then you have to submit that application in person, right? And then, once you give the home affairs official your application, then this is, I think, one of the important parts of that process. They take your biometrics. What it basically means
Ruling was issued out, Home Affairs was not ready. And before the implementation, what Home Affairs was supposed to do was to get themselves ready in terms of how they're going to deal with the situation. But also, Bonnie, this ruling was not saying they must
Inasmuch as asylum seekers they will be given papers and then home affairs will process whether they qualify to be refugees in this country. That's neither here nor there, Joanna, because while the home affairs will be processing those applications, people
Home Affairs doesn't seem to have enough capacity to be able to do this, nor do they seem to have the qualifications in that first-round interview. And that is based on what lawyers for human rights told us yesterday. That some Home Affairs officials are not
Judiciary is part of the state. And they are aware that the Home Affairs Department was busy with the procedural proceedings of this matter. They should have allowed the Home Affairs to finish with the procedures and then the Home Affairs come back to them and
In a way, saying Home Affairs, capacitate yourself because this is what you need to do. So it doesn't have to be explicitly mentioning that they can't instruct Home Affairs, but Home Affairs knows that by this ruling, they are supposed to be capacitated. And I
the supreme law of the land. And everyone has to observe those laws, including the Department of Home Affairs. So, if the Department of Home Affairs are not following through on the constitutional judgment and the order that was passed down, they are
Now that there is another comment that we made the Minister regarding the capacity of the home affairs. He said home affairs has caused implementation of this contact decision, so my question is that why are we only looking at the capacity of home affairs? Are
court ruling, of course, Parliament has to deal with it in 24 months, but your responsibilities as home affairs continue. Right now, there are cases mounting against home affairs where you're cited as the Minister of Home Affairs, where you're not complying
The home affairs. The problem is not home affairs. The problem is the United Nations Prohibition for refugees. They are the one they granted mission with the government of South Africa. So the problem is the government of South Africa, they get granted money,
Why the protesters decided to go and protest at the Home Affairs Office? Soweto does not have a refugee reception center. So the expectation would be that there are no people queuing up seeking asylum at the Soweto Home Affairs. That's very correct. Soweto
on the 7th of July. Correct. We looked at the court judgment. We understood what it means. It says to Home Affairs: remove administrative hurdles that are likely to ensure that a deserving asylum seeker is not getting through. So that court judgment comes out.
We understood what it means. It says to Home Affairs: remove administrative hurdles that are likely to ensure that a deserving asylum seeker is not getting through. So that court judgment comes out. And then what has triggered this, Bongan? It's the cues at
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Commentators said Home Affairs was not ready for a Constitutional Court ruling on asylum and that officials may lack capacity and familiarity with the law 46. One said the ruling did not require accommodating illegal immigrants and that Home Affairs has said 95% of asylum applications are rejected 4, while another said Home Affairs has been criticised for disinformation about its role 1.
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