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News24 writes that in recent weeks, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has been in the spotlight due to the controversy surrounding Chidimma Adetshina's participation in the Miss SA pageant, and 95 Libyans who entered the country for what appeared to be military training at a camp in Mpumalanga.
On Tuesday, DHA Minister Leon Schreiber, his deputy Njabulo Nzuza, and the Border Management Authority briefed the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs on these and other matters. Ahead of their presentation, Schreiber said: “What you will see amounts to nothing less than a threat to national security that can only be addressed through the total and sustained digital transformation of Home Affairs into a digital-first department. The point that needs to be made right up front is that the matters we will discuss today [Tuesday] are not isolated incidents. They are symptoms of a systemic crisis that threaten the national security interests of the Republic … Instead of viewing these as isolated events, we need to regard these matters as case studies that illustrate a far deeper crisis at the very heart of our state." Adetshina's participation in the beauty pageant sparked controversy when her SA citizenship was questioned. She withdrew earlier this month after the DHA announced that it had found prima facie evidence suggesting the person it had on record as her mother might have committed fraud and identity theft. According to the findings of the DHA’s preliminary investigation, the 95 Libyan nationals entered the country with handwritten study visas, all from the same Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) official at the embassy in Tunisia. "It is time for Home Affairs to be given the tools and support we urgently require to not only put out fires as we have done in these recent cases, but to also start preventing fires into the future," Schreiber told MPs.
- Read the extensive report in the above regard by Jan Gerber at News24 (registration required)
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