Court orders Home Affairs to process asylum applications for Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban

The Pretoria High Court has ordered Home Affairs to process the asylum applications of 22 Afghan nationals.

Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul on 16 August 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hardline brand of Islamist rule.

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