{"id":47641,"date":"2026-10-09T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47641"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:14:38","slug":"sa-home-affairs-withdraws-directive-expanding-asylum-seeker-applications","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-home-affairs-withdraws-directive-expanding-asylum-seeker-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Home Affairs withdraws directive expanding asylum seeker applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_divRplyFwdMsg\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Department of Home Affairs has withdrawn a directive issued on the 28th of September that expanded the intake of asylum seeker applications following a Constitutional Court ruling.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The department says the directive was an operational decision taken by the Director-General&#8217;s office without the knowledge or involvement of the Minister or any political office-bearers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Home Affairs has rejected claims that the directive was politically motivated, saying the implementation of the court order overwhelmed Refugee Reception Offices, placed officials at risk, and raised public safety concerns.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The department says it will now begin a fresh process to determine how best to comply with the Constitutional Court judgment while ensuring the safe and effective operation of asylum services.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15264,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-47641","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The department says it will now begin a fresh process to determine how best to comply with the Constitutional Court judgment while ensuring the safe and effective operation of asylum services.","published_date":"","news_description":"The department says it will now begin a fresh process to determine how best to comply with the Constitutional Court judgment while ensuring the safe and effective operation of asylum services.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47642,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47641\/revisions\/47642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}