Thursday, 8 October 2026

Home Affairs has directed refugee reception officers not to turn away anyone seeking asylum, regardless of how they entered South Africa, following a Constitutional Court ruling.

Hundreds of foreign nationals have been told to leave the Durban Refugee Centre on Che Guevara Road over security concerns, as anti-illegal immigration groups disrupt operations there.

Eswatini has declined to say whether the deported US criminals transited South Africa, saying it does not want to cause panic, while the Border Management Authority denies they passed through.

Parliament's ad hoc committee has recommended that allegations a former police minister received half a million rand in cash from an alleged crime kingpin be referred to investigators.

Of 70 administrations first formed in hung councils, 23 stayed in their original format while 22 collapsed completely, according to Mistra's coalition barometer, which challenges the dysfunction narrative.