If you are an illegal black immigrant from Zimbabwe, you can quickly buy a genuine South African Passport for R45,000 from Home Affairs, but if you are a law-abiding white person, you could wait years for a basic document. Indeed, in Ireland, South Africans are told by the Embassy they can wait up to three years for documents, which severely affects their residence status! Such stories abound on Facebook groups like Suid Afrikaners in Nederland where expats try help each other out with the bureaucracy, corruption and ineptitude from Home Affairs
Even people’s job prospects are being destroyed after a clinical researcher from Pretoria, may not be able to start her new job in the Netherlands in time, due to a delay and mix up at the ANC’s Home Affairs. This despite the fact that she started applying for the necessary documents a year in advance.
Nicolette Delport
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