by Pearl Khumalo | Aug 22, 2024 | Newsletter, PAST EVENTS
20 June 2024 marked World Refugee Day, an international day of recognition for asylum seekers and refugees. To qualify for refugee status in South Africa, an applicant’s circumstances must fit within the scope of Section3 of the Refugees Act (130 of 1998), namely,...
by Pearl Khumalo | Aug 22, 2024 | Newsletter
On 19 July 2024, ProBono.Org Durban, in collaboration with HIAS South Africa practitioners, candidate legal practitioners and paralegals. The purpose of the event was to capacitate the pro bono panel to assist ProBono.Org with refugee law matters. The event commenced...
by Pearl Khumalo | Jun 24, 2024 | Newsletter
On 22 April 2024, ProBono.Org Durban hosted a Freedom Day event in collaboration with Norton Rose Fulbright, who graciously hosted us , and Garlicke and Bousfield. The purpose of the event was to encourage legal practitioners to take on pro bono work and to provide...
by Pearl Khumalo | Aug 25, 2023 | Newsletter
In 2009, the Minister of Home Affairs introduced the Zimbabwean Dispensation Permit (now the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit, “ZEP”) in terms of section 31(2) (b) of the Immigration Act. The purpose of the permit was to deal with the influx of economic migrants coming...
