Home Affairs Minister Dr Leon Schreiber: “We want to see accountability because the days of treating Home Affairs with impunity are over”
As part of the Department of Home Affairs' campaign to clean house, 18 officials were dismissed with immediate effect. According to the department, the officials were dismissed for the following reasons: Four were fired for irregularly granting ID documents; Six for irregularly registering marriages; Three for irregularly processing birth certificates; One for irregularly processing passports; One for irregular approval of visa applications; One for irregular extension of asylum seeker permits; […]