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President Cyril Ramaphosa can take credit for his role for steering SA away from a full-blown race war in the 1990s, but he walked into a Donald Trump trap in the Oval Office yesterday.

Forty-nine Afrikaners granted refugee status by the US departed from SA on a chartered flight last night. The US Embassy earlier informed Pretoria in a diplomatic note that the first batch of members of the Afrikaner community would be admitted into the US, making good on its offer of ‘refugee status’ for those seeking to leave the country.

The Western Cape High Court Judge Constance Nziweni has told Department of Home Affairs (DHA) officials to stop acting like gatekeepers by refusing to accept residence and status applications.

The Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has dismissed an application by the son of the fugitive Ajay Gupta, seeking to compel the Department of Home Affairs to issue a birth certificate and passport for his daughter.

Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla, has been refused a visa to visit the UK by the British Government for his alleged support of and for ‘glorying’ Hamas, according to The Citizen.

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) has criticised Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber for failing to act against Phil Craig, leader of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group (Ciag).

The Department of Home Affairs will likely have to pay damages to the tune of R1m to an illegal immigrant after the Eastern Cape High Court (Mthatha) ruled that she was unlawfully detained for a month.

An SA woman is fighting for her right to join her two lovers who are currently in the UK.

International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola and his counterpart in Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, are tackling the newly imposed visa requirements by Ireland for South Africans with the Irish Government.

In what a Business Day report calls a landmark judgment, the SCA has found in favour of two Burundi asylum seekers whose bid was refused by the Department of Home Affairs.

Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has noted that fake marriages are on the rise in SA, adding to the challenges faced by the department as it tries to clear up a major backlog in visa applications.

Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) Judge Dunstan Mlambo has ruled in favour of Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi following an application by a group of illegal immigrants that their detention at the Modderbee Correctional Services Centre in Benoni was unlawful and against the Immigration and Refugee Acts.

The Department of Home Affairs has told international visitors hoping to extend their stay by a further 90 days that they must leave two months earlier than they would otherwise have expected.

Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi could find himself in contempt proceedings this year after failing to comply with a court order to review a foreign worker’s prohibited status, notes Business Day.

SA’s immigration landscape has changed drastically over the past 18 months, bringing with it a host of new hurdles that have become a nightmare for businesses to navigate.