South Africaâs Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has appointed a five-member committee to review permits and visas issued to most immigrants who have been in that country since 2004.
Motsoaledi said the move was meant to eradicate corruption in the Department of Home Affairs with indications pointing to possible issuance of permits or visas to wrong people.
Addressing reporters in Pretoria on Wednesday, Minister Motsoaledi said the committee will review the Permanent Residence Permits (PRP), which are just a step away from citizenship, corporate visa, especially in the mining sector, business visa, (professional) critical skills visa, and retired personsâ visa, citizenship by naturalisation and study visa. He said:
Home Affairs task team to review all visas, permits issued since 2004
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Pretoria – Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi on Wednesday announced the establishment of a ministerial committee that will review all permits and visas issued since 2004.
This comes three weeks after Motsoaledi expressed the intention in Parliament to set up a task team to review some permits that were issued by the Department of Home Affairs over the years.
This, he said, came after he identified the need to review the permits after realising a trend emerging from the outcomes of cases involving prominent people investigated by the department’s Counter Corruption Unit, which investigates wrongdoing by departmental officials, SAnews.gov.za reported.