Department of Home Affairs to enforce legal immigrant employment

Department of Home Affairs To Enforce Legal Immigrant Employment

Companies may expect “a knock on the door” from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to conduct required audits and investigations on their employment practices of immigrant workers, Director from the DHA’s Corporate Account Unit, Ben Makhalemele has warned.

Employing Expatriates

Employing Expatriates? – Duties and obligations of South African Employers

Employers are often hard pressed to find the necessary (and scarce) skills to fill selected roles within their organisation. Time and again employers turn to the international labour market to seek individuals possessing the required skillsets to support and sustain the needs of the organisation.

IMG breakfast with Ben Makhalemele and Moeketsi Seboko

On 28 March 2018, the Department of Home Affairs, Assistant Director Ben Makhalemele addressed SARA members and guests at the SARA IMG Breakfast event. Joining him was our very own Moeketsi Seboko.

Bruma Office Closing Down

Bruma office closing down

It has been announced that the South African Visa Facilitation Centre (VFS) located in Bruma, East Johannesburg, will temporarily relocate to the Kensington Bowling Club from 5 March 2018 until 30 March 2018 after which it will close indefinitely. The last day of submission at the VFS in Bruma is 2 March 2018.

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Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) Extensions – Closed 15 February 2018

The final extension of ZEP applications provided by the Department of Home Affairs, closed on 15 February 2018. This extension allowed Zimbabweans who held the initial ZSP’s to submit any/all supportive documentation and outstanding payments pertaining to their extension applications.