Department of Home Affairs Archives - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/tag/department-of-home-affairs/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:19:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.mambaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-mamba_logo_output-32x32.png Department of Home Affairs Archives - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/tag/department-of-home-affairs/ 32 32 Home Affairs finally grants same-sex couple a (limited) spousal visa https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/08/30/home-affairs-finally-grants-same-sex-couple-a-limited-spousal-visa/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/08/30/home-affairs-finally-grants-same-sex-couple-a-limited-spousal-visa/#respond Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:55:08 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=87982 After months of chasing after the department of home affairs, lesbian couple, Wendy Kessman and Nomfundo Ngidi were finally granted a spousal visa but only to live legally in South Africa and travel in and out of the country.

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/08/30/home-affairs-finally-grants-same-sex-couple-a-limited-spousal-visa/feed/ 0 Home Affairs ignores court order to respond to lesbian couple’s visa appeal https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/08/23/home-affairs-ignores-court-order-to-respond-to-lesbian-couples-visa-appeal/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/08/23/home-affairs-ignores-court-order-to-respond-to-lesbian-couples-visa-appeal/#respond Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:07:18 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=87751 The Department of Home Affairs flouts the rule of law as it ignores a court order granted to a married same-sex couple, Wendy Kessman and Nomfundo Ngidi, who wish to legally live together in South Africa.

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/08/23/home-affairs-ignores-court-order-to-respond-to-lesbian-couples-visa-appeal/feed/ 0 Home Affairs ordered to respond to lesbian couple’s appeal https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/07/30/home-affairs-ordered-to-respond-to-lesbian-couples-appeal/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/07/30/home-affairs-ordered-to-respond-to-lesbian-couples-appeal/#respond Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:58:56 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=86520 A court has had to order the Department of Home Affairs to do its job and respond to an appeal by a married bi-national same-sex couple who are desperate to legally live together in South Africa.

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/07/30/home-affairs-ordered-to-respond-to-lesbian-couples-appeal/feed/ 0 Lesbian couple’s court order against Home Affairs delayed https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/11/court-rejects-lesbian-couples-court-order-against-home-affairs/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/11/court-rejects-lesbian-couples-court-order-against-home-affairs/#respond Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:57:55 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=84510 A court order application by married binational same-sex couple Wendy Kessman and Nomfundo Ngidi against the Department of Home Affairs was delayed on Monday. Kessman and Ngidi expressed their disappointment when they learned that the judge was only willing to grant an interim order against Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba and his department. The […]

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