Home Affairs withdraws asylum directive

Cape Town ETC ·
South Africa

The Department of Home Affairs has withdrawn a directive instructing refugee reception offices to accept asylum applications regardless of how applicants entered the country, following overcrowding at its facilities and violent anti-immigrant protests in Soweto and Durban. The directive, issued on 28 September 2026, was intended to implement a July Constitutional Court judgment in the case…

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