Migration

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MigrationSouth Africa

SA launches biometric register to fix migration loopholes

Pretoria - South Africa is establishing an Intelligent Population Register containing biometric data for every person in the country, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced...

Migration

Malawi repatriates 150 nationals displaced in Western Cape

Lilongwe - The Malawian government has begun repatriating citizens displaced by recent unrest in South Africa's Western Cape province, with the first two...

MigrationSouth Africa

Ramaphosa unveils crackdown on illegal immigration

Pretoria - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a sweeping set of measures to tighten the enforcement of immigration and labour laws,...

President Cyril Ramaphosa at the TRC Housing Reparations Launch, 7 April 2026. Photo: GCIS
MigrationSouth Africa

Ramaphosa to address nation on migration crisis tonight

Pretoria - President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to address South Africans on Sunday evening on the government's approach to illegal migration and the...

Oshoek border post. Photo by Bulelwa Ginindza
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What Emaswati need to know about South Africa’s new border rules

Oshoek - Emaswati travelling to South Africa in foreign-registered vehicles are now required to declare those vehicles to the South African Revenue Service...

Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn attends the 25th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) from April 27 to 28 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam. Photo by Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Cambodia dismisses viral ‘quit Africa’ notice as fake

Phnom Penh - The Government of Cambodia has officially dismissed as completely false a widely circulated online notice that ordered all Africans to...

Hundreds of people, some asylum seekrs, queueing outside home affairs offices in Marabastad. Photo: Thabang Kuaho
MigrationSouth Africa

SA asylum seeker appeal backlog swells to 161,000 cases

Cape Town - South Africa is sitting on a backlog of 161,000 asylum seeker appeal cases, the Department of Home Affairs told Parliament...

Defence minister Angie Motshekga, justice minister Mmamoloko Kubayi, and deputy home affairs minister Njabulo Nzuza brief the media after a closed-door meeting about illegal immigration. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
MigrationSouth Africa

March and March gives SA government until June 30

Pretoria - South African government ministers held an urgent closed-door meeting at the Union Buildings in Tshwane on Monday to confront the growing...