Jun
02
2023
“The holding of political office and remaining registered as a medical practitioner are not mutually exclusive” says judge
By Tania Broughton
Last year in a widely circulated video, Limpopo Health MEC Dr Pophi Ramathuba told a hospitalised Zimbabwean patient: “You are killing my health system. It’s unfair.”
A preliminary committee of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) found that...
Oct
08
2021
Asylum application backlog set to grow, with Refugee Reception Offices closed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic
By Tariro Washinyira
Refugees who arrived in South Africa after March 2020 have had no way to apply for asylum status.
Accumulating new applications will put further pressure on attempts to clear an already huge backlog of asylum claims.
A UNHCR-funded joint project...
Oct
21
2019
The Supreme Court of Appeal has declared Home Affairs’s prohibition on asylum seekers marrying unconstitutional
By Muchengeti Hwacha
If you are an asylum seeker whose application for asylum in terms of Section 21 of the Refugee Act has not been finalised, you are still permitted to enter into a marriage. The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) affirmed this in a judgment handed down in...
Oct
22
2018
“The courts had spoken. We had to do it,” says Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
By GroundUp correspondent
The Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office was officially re-opened on Friday by Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba. The province has been without such a facility since Home Affairs unilaterally closed it in 2011.
Following years of legal action, public outcry and civil society activism,...