Home Affairs wasted R147 million on failed asylum backlog project

 Home Affairs wasted R147 million on failed asylum backlog project

In 2020 the Auditor General raised alarm bells when they indicated that the asylum appeal backlog would take the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) 68 years to clear. In 2021 the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) provided the DHA with R147 million to deal with the 153 391 asylum decisions appeal backlog. The…...

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