Department of Home Affairs

Home Affairs Deputy Minister to hand over smart ID cards to people with disabilities
Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Ms Fatima Chohan will address members of the media on the handover of Smart ID cards to a group of people with disability...READ MORE

Media Briefing Notes by Home Affairs Director-General Mkuseli Apleni 28 November 2013, Pretoria
TRANSCRIPT COPY; HOME AFFAIRS DG MKUSELI APLENI STATEMENT AND QUESTION AND ANSWER COPY; 28 NOVEMBER 2013, PRETORIA...READ MORE

Home Affairs weekly Media Briefing, 28 November 2013
Pretoria - Home Affairs Director-General Mkuseli Apleni will address the department's weekly media briefing, at 13h00 today, Thursday 28 November 2013 on the following issues among others...READ MORE

Home Affairs facilitating movement of ZCC Bishop Lekganyane and church members to Botswana, 22-24 November 2013
Pretoria - Minister of Home Affairs, Naledi Pandor has given authorization for extension of hours and deployment of more Immigration officers to a number of ports of entry between RSA and Botswana to assist in the facilitation of movement of Bishop Barnabas Lekganyane and multitudes of Zion Christian Church (ZCC) members who will be travelling to Gaborone, Botswana from today Friday 22-24 November 2013... READ MORE

Minister Naledi Pandor to launch Home Affairs-Matatiele community stakeholder forum, Saturday 23 November 2013
Matatiele - Minister of Home Affairs Naledi Pandor, supported by Deputy Minister Fatima Chohan and the Eastern Cape MEC for Education, will address an Imbizo and launch the Home Affairs-Matatiele Community Stakeholder Forum at the North-End Stadium in Ward 19 Matatiele in the Eastern Cape on Saturday 23 November 2013...READ MORE

Transcript Copy; Deputy Minister Fatima Chohan meets Namibian Counterpart Elias Kaiyano; Cape Town; 13 November 2013
Opening statement (Deputy Minister Fatima Chohan): Good morning colleagues and thank you all for joining us here today. We are very honoured indeed this morning to be able to host our colleagues from Namibia. South Africa and Namibia have got fraternal ties, not only are we geographically very closely situated but our relationship is that of a family...READ MORE

Home Affairs statistics for the voter registration weekend of 09-10 November 2013
Pretoria - The Minister of Home Affairs Naledi Pandor has extended her gratitude to all South Africans who took off time to apply for IDs, temporary identity certificates and collected outstanding IDs from home Affairs offices over the weekend on 09-10 November for voter registration purposes as proclaimed by the IEC...READ MORE

Home Affairs Offices to remain open on Sunday 10 November for ID applications required for voter registration
Pretoria - Home Affairs offices across the country will remain open from 08h00-17h00 on Sunday 10 November 2013 as directed by Minister Naledi Pandor and as part of the voter registration weekend as proclaimed by the IEC...READ MORE

Minister Naledi Pandor's address to the Home Affairs weekly media briefing, Pretoria 08 November 2013
Good morning ladies and gentlemen of the media. Today I wish to address you on four issues that are of importance to all South Africans namely, the roll-out of the smart ID card; the invalidation of duplicate IDs; processes towards the establishment of the Border Management Agency (BMA) and a national study on migration and immigration trends to be undertaken by the HSRC...READ MORE

G&A Cluster Media Briefing - Speaking Notes by Public Service & Administration Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu on Thursday 07 November 2013
As we pay tribute to those who contributed to the liberation struggle as well as those who laid the foundations for our freedom in 1994, work has already commenced on a statue of our beloved Madiba to be unveiled at the Union Buildings in December 2013...READ MORE

Minister Naledi Pandor to address Home Affairs weekly Media Briefing, 08 November 2013
Pretoria - Minister of Home Affairs, Naledi Pandor will tomorrow, Friday 8 November 2013 address the Home Affairs weekly media briefing in Pretoria...READ MORE

Input by Minister Naledi Pandor to the “Immigration debate” at the South African Jewish Museum, 31 October 2013
Immigration is a subject of vigorous national debate in developed and developing nations. In South Africa the subject tends to be viewed as peripheral in public policy debates. The attitude of some of our citizens to foreign nationals from other African countries seems to be the main immigration issue in the public domain. As a department we regard immigration as a complex challenge...READ MORE

Minister Naledi Pandor to debate SA Immigration policy with leading business people, 31 Oct 2013 in Cape Town at 18h00 – 20h00
Cape Town - The Minister of Home Affairs, Naledi Pandor will, this evening, take part in a debate between leading policy makers and business people on whether South Africa should open or close its doors to skilled immigrants in the a time of national economic uncertainty...READ MORE

Minister Naledi Pandor to deliver the 6th Iman Abdullah Haron Memorial Lecture at 19h30, today, 29 October 2013, Islamia High School, Lansdowne in Cape Town.
Cape Town – Home Affairs Minister, Naledi Pandor will this evening, 29 November 2013, at 19h30, deliver the 06th Iman Abdullah Haron Memorial Lecture, at the Solly and Zohra Noor Auditorium, Islamia High School, Imam Haron Road (formerly Lansdowne Rd) , Lansdowne in Cape Town...READ MORE

	Director General: Mkuseli Apleni 082 449 7535 (012) 406 2501
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	DDG Finance: Philip Benade
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	Chief Operations Officer: Thulani Mavuso (012)406 2805
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	DDG Human Resources: Avril Williamson (012) 406 4096
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	DDG Immigration Services: Jackie Mckay 082 442 8998 (012) 406 2697
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LATEST NEWS UPDATE

Home Affairs Deputy Minister to hand over smart ID cards to people with disabilities

Media Briefing Notes by Home Affairs Director-General Mkuseli Apleni 28 November 2013, Pretoria

Home Affairs weekly Media Briefing, 28 November 2013

Home Affairs facilitating movement of ZCC Bishop Lekganyane and church members to Botswana, 22-24 November 2013

Minister Naledi Pandor to launch Home Affairs-Matatiele community stakeholder forum, Saturday 23 November 2013

Transcript Copy; Deputy Minister Fatima Chohan meets Namibian Counterpart Elias Kaiyano; Cape Town; 13 November 2013

Home Affairs statistics for the voter registration weekend of 09-10 November 2013

Home Affairs Offices to remain open on Sunday 10 November for ID applications required for voter registration

Minister Naledi Pandor's address to the Home Affairs weekly media briefing, Pretoria 08 November 2013

G&A Cluster Media Briefing - Speaking Notes by Public Service & Administration Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu on Thursday 07 November 2013

Minister Naledi Pandor to address Home Affairs weekly Media Briefing, 08 November 2013

Input by Minister Naledi Pandor to the “Immigration debate” at the South African Jewish Museum, 31 October 2013

Minister Naledi Pandor to debate SA Immigration policy with leading business people, 31 Oct 2013 in Cape Town at 18h00 – 20h00

Minister Naledi Pandor to deliver the 6th Iman Abdullah Haron Memorial Lecture at 19h30, today, 29 October 2013, Islamia High School, Lansdowne in Cape Town.

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