SIHMA Press Review for February 2025 and March 2025
South Africa 25 March 2025 Daily Maverick Home Affairs minister launches new body to combat corruption at South Africa’s borders South Africa's borders are highly vulnerable to transnational crime due to poor infrastructure, weak enforcement, and corruption within the Border Management Authority (BMA) and the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). To combat this, the Border Management and Immigration Anti-Corruption Forum (BMIACF) has been launched...
"On the line" a documentary on alternatives to detention and deportation
Exploring alternatives to immigration detention and deportation is a key topic in the current conversation about forced human mobility in the continent. Are there viable alternatives to South Africa’s immigration detention and deportation system? This was the central question examined at the launch of the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town’s new documentary, On The Line, on August 28th at Cape Town’s Labia Theatre. The event gathered around eighty individuals from refugee-led organisations, civil society,...
