Denzil Taylor speaks to Immigration lawyer Craig Smith about what the law says about providing healthcare to illegal foreigners or asylum seekers.
Refugee Status
• Australian Luc Osstyn missed the birth of his first-born in Cape Town.
• And wife Jade van Ryneveld has missed having her husband at her side for seven weeks.
• But finally their separation nightmare may be over.
About 200 000 Zimbabweans in South Africa are living on borrowed time
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
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...
Craig Smith Speaks About Asylum Seekers on The John Maytham Show
From asylum seeker, refugee to resident of South Africa
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...
Asylum seekers right to non-refoulement without fear of detention and deportation
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...