Press Review February 2020
NATIONAL COVERAGE Home affairs ‘not coping’ with immigration City-press.news24.com February 10, 2020 The department of home affairs’ processes for undocumented immigrants are inadequate, leaving it unable to determine the number and status of undocumented people in the country. This is according a follow-up performance audit conducted by the office of the Auditor-General, which presented its findings before Parliament’s portfolio committee on home affairs last week. Full report: https://city-press.news24.com/News/home-affairs-not-coping-with-immigration-20200208?fbclid=IwAR2lORUBj9UBgfC_qCDAIgaGmcIbB0YI7zKhVh9Qyxr2C8kVyTN0VgLVzaE Xenophobia isn’t keeping immigrants out of SA – here are...
Seminars on the regulations to the Refugee Amendment Act 2017
On Friday the 28th of February, a seminar was held in the Chancery Boardroom also regarding the regulations to the Refugee Amendment Act 2017. The seminar was held by a collaboration of SIHMA, Scalabrini Centre, the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO) and the Jesuits South Africa, and around 20 to 25 people attended. Sally Gandar, the head of the advocacy department at SCCT and an attorney, gave an hour-long presentation explaining the asylum process...
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Norec workshop in Nairobi with Cultural Video
On February 20 and 21, SIHMA’s executive director Father Filippo and SIHMA’s project manager James Chapman were in Nairobi for a workshop hosted by Norec, together with the organization Cultural Video. Norec (the Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation) is an executive body under the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Through what they call ‘mutual exchange’ they aim to help achieve the goals of Norwegian development policy. This means that they work with international partners who want to use the...
Our Director in Kenya
The Executive director of SIHMA, Fr. Filippo, is in Nairobi, Kenya this week (February 17 to February 21). He first visited the African Migration and Development Policy Centre, AMADPOC and met with the Executive Director Dr. Linda Adhiambo Oucho, who is also one of the AHMR Journal's Editorial board member. AMADPOC aims to contribute to development initiatives through policy oriented research on migration related issues. Fr. Filippo and Dr. Oucho had the opportunity to discuss about common strategy...
Africa Report: South Africa's country profile
The Africa Report #110, which came out in January 2020, dedicated a large section of this issue to 147 country profiles, discussing the current situation of the country and its perspective on the upcoming year. This blogpost will describe the key topics of South Africa’s country profile. In the last term, major policy interventions were announced by the leading party; these include wider economic reforms, cuts to the civil service and the establishment...
Press Review January 2020
NATIONAL COVERAGE Government tightens its grip on refugees and asylum seekers Timeslive.co.za January 5, 2020 Tough new regulations to control the movement and activities of refugees and asylum seekers, including a ban on political activity and immediate detention on grounds of national security, have been implemented in South Africa. Furthermore, they also make it more difficult for refugees and asylum seekers to enter South Africa in the first place. The new regulations under the Refugees Act took effect on...
