An unintended consequence of the country’s liberal asylum regime has been that migrants who are not genuine refugees but are seeking economic opportunities have used it to attempt to regularise their stay in South Africa.
This comment was made by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba as he addressed the World Refugee Day in Johannesburg on Monday.
SA will not hesitate to act against xenophobia: Malusi Gigaba
“In terms of our asylum seeker regime‚ we are proud to be one of the few African countries which receives large volumes of asylum seekers‚ which does not have an encampment policy.”
World Refugee Day: ‘I feel like SA is now my home’
Gigaba said the result had been that economic migrants had used the asylum regime to regularise their stay in South Africa.
“The sheer volume of applications from these migrants has placed an enormous burden on the refugee status determination process‚ which has disadvantaged genuine asylum seekers by delaying their decisions‚ in the past taking years where they should take no more than six months‚” Gigaba said.
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7 Sierra Leone gems
Sierra Leone gets a lot of negative attention. Whether it’s civil conflict, or an outbreak of Ebola, the country seems to constantly fighting negative attention. The truth, however, is that Sierra Leone is a fascinating and beautiful country with lots to offer visitors.
Freetown:
Nearly all Sierra Leonean adventures start in Freetown. The city can be frantic, and intense, but beneath it all there is a sheer beauty to chaos and a great food scene to go along with it.
Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary:
Tacugama is one of the premiere primate sanctuaries in West Africa. They rehabilitate rescued chimpanzees with the goal of delivering them back to nature. Within the park, the beautiful primates enjoy massive enclosures and fantastic care. Visitors can tour the property and get a close look at these beautiful animals.
No. 2 River:
The coast of Sierra Leone is among the most beautiful in all of Africa, and it’s still extremely underdeveloped.
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DA: ‘ANC candidates list represents corruption‚ declining service delivery and unemployment’
“The ANC cannot bring the change South Africa needs‚ because it is more concerned with putting allies of Jacob Zuma in top mayoral positions. Zuma’s pals will‚ like the President‚ put self-enrichment first and the people last‚” DA spokesperson Phumzile Van Damme said in a statement on Sunday.
The DA has accused Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral candidate Danny Jordaan of being a “part-time Mayor of broken promises after having faked the launch of a Metro Police‚ introducing 21‚000 more NMB residents to the ranks of the unemployed since December 2015 and losing over R320 million to leaks and electricity theft in the last 9 months.
“Additionally‚ Jordaan’s criminal pal Linda Mti was recently appointed to the Head of Safety and Security‚” said Van Damme. “In five years Mayor Parks Tau has overseen unemployment in Johannesburg rise to 869‚000. At the same time conditions in the informal settlements of Johannesburg have deteriorated to where the SA Human Rights Commission is now investigating the Johannesburg ANC government for human rights abuses. That the ANC wants to give Tau another term in government shows that the ANC doesn’t take service delivery and stopping corruption seriously. “In Tshwane‚ the failure to reaffirm Mayor [Kgosientso “Sputla’] Ramokgopa shows that the ANC recognises that he and his ANC government have failed to deliver‚ including Sputla’s PEU smart-meter Billion Rand scandal‚ unlawful broadband contracts‚ undrinkable water in Hammanskraal with 40‚000 more people joining the ranks of the unemployed in Tshwane since January 2016.”
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Why South Africa would do well to fire all its deputy ministers
This includes a R7 billion reduction in the public sector wage bill over the next three years as well as a reduction in travel costs, entertainment budgets, catering expenses and restrictions on conferences.
The cuts come in the wake of a weakened South African currency and a shrinking tax poolto fund government. They are also a response to the auditor-general’s adverse report on the government’s wasteful and irregular government expenditure, which stood at R25.7 billion for 2015.
The cuts are commendable and long overdue. But they ignore one part of the wage bill the country can do without: deputy ministers. Although not a panacea, cutting down the number of deputy ministers would go a long way to helping government get its finances onto a more stable footing.
At the beginning of his second term in office, President Jacob Zuma appointed 35 ministers and 37 deputy ministers. This is a very large cabinet.
Russia, for example, has a cabinet of only 23 ministers; China has a cabinet of 20 ministers; Botswana has a cabinet of 17 ministers and only seven deputy or assistant ministers; Nigeria has 31 ministers.
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Economic refugees abuse South Africa’s liberal asylum regime: Gigaba
An unintended consequence of the country’s liberal asylum regime has been that migrants who are not genuine refugees but are seeking economic opportunities have used it to attempt to regularise their stay in South Africa.
This comment was made by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba as he addressed the World Refugee Day in Johannesburg on Monday.
SA will not hesitate to act against xenophobia: Malusi Gigaba
“In terms of our asylum seeker regime‚ we are proud to be one of the few African countries which receives large volumes of asylum seekers‚ which does not have an encampment policy.”
World Refugee Day: ‘I feel like SA is now my home’
Gigaba said the result had been that economic migrants had used the asylum regime to regularise their stay in South Africa.
“The sheer volume of applications from these migrants has placed an enormous burden on the refugee status determination process‚ which has disadvantaged genuine asylum seekers by delaying their decisions‚ in the past taking years where they should take no more than six months‚” Gigaba said.
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