After the Department of Home Affairs withdrew its directive on implementing the Constitutional Court's asylum ruling, immigration lawyer Craig Smith joined The Clement Manyathela Show on 702 to discuss what went wrong. He was joined by ATM parliamentary leader Vuyo...
Since the Constitutional Court declared parts of the Refugees Act unconstitutional, social media has filled up with claims that South Africa has opened its borders, granted amnesty or handed out automatic refugee status. None of this is true. In a recent interview on...
Denzil Taylor speaks to Immigration lawyer Craig Smith about what the law says about providing healthcare to illegal foreigners or asylum seekers.
They are in the country on a special visa, the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP). This visa category was introduced more than a decade ago to accommodate an influx of refugees who were fleeing political persecution and economic devastation in Zimbabwe. But late last...
craig smith comments on refugee crisis in afghanistan Today we are looking at the plight of Afghanistan refugees after the Taliban took control last month at least 28,000 Afghans have been evacuated. For over three weeks, 32 Afghans have been stranded at the frontier...
With the formal disintegration of apartheid in 1994, South Africa acceded to a number of far-reaching international legal and human rights instruments like the 1951 and 1967 Convention and Protocol for Status of Refugees and the 1948 Universal Declaration...
When South Africa acceded to the international principles and standards set out in the various Conventions and Protocols on Status of Refugees after 1994, it imposed on itself the widely held right of non-refoulement. In refugee parlance this right is...