ON THE CARPET: HOME AFFAIRS : Subpoena forces ‘unco-operative’ Department of Home Affairs to appear before Human Rights Commission By Chanel Retief and Zoë Postman
The Department of Home Affairs appeared before the South African Human Rights Commission on Thursday, 16 May 2019 after the commission issued a subpoena against the department. The commission said the reason for the subpoena was that department had failed to co-operate with the HRC, as required by the Constitution.Home Affairs has perpetually given us a problem with coming in. It took us three months to secure a meeting with the Home Affairs Minister.
The department told the HRC that an application for permanent residence which involved marriage to a South African was a complicated process that aimed to ensure that the system was not abused.They can’t take the application at face value. You can’t just file an application and attach the marriage certificate and that’s it. The file must go to the inspectorate first.”
The department, he said, also only had 22 adjudicators nationally to process applications. This causes a major backlog in processing the applications, including those for asylum.There’s a huge abuse of the asylum seekers system. When a real asylum seekers’ request is rejected, they take this on review. And only three people can hear one case at a time. We still have a huge backlog,” Mavuso said.
He said Home Affairs did not have systems in place that could automate those updates, but he said it was currently working on a system that would make it more efficient.
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