{"id":47772,"date":"2026-10-11T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47772"},"modified":"2026-10-11T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:51:16","slug":"sa-home-affairs-moves-to-strengthen-asylum-application-controls","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-home-affairs-moves-to-strengthen-asylum-application-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Home Affairs moves to strengthen asylum application controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">South Africa\u2019s (SA)Home Affairs Minister Doctor Leon Schreiber says the department will introduce a phased, structured intention-registration and appointment model for asylum seeker applications by November 10.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Schreiber says the system will allow the department to add more security features to avoid abuse by applicants.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>He says his department wants to prevent applicants from re-applying after being rejected.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Schreiber was addressing the media in Pretoria, during a briefing by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThis biometric platform will require anyone who wants to apply for asylum to upload biometrics, which we will then verify. We will have the capabilities through the system to check whether you previously had a case that you lost, which was rejected for asylum. We will be able to check other infringements on your records, and where you upload things like passport or travel documents, we can now use technology to verify the authenticity of those.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15264,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47772","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Schreiber says the system will allow the department to add more security features to avoid abuse by applicants.","published_date":"","news_description":"Schreiber says the system will allow the department to add more security features to avoid abuse by applicants.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47772","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\/47772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47773,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47772\/revisions\/47773"}],"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=47772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}