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State to ask court to supervise Home Affairs over asylum crisis
Original: State to ask court to supervise Home Affairs in scramble to fix asylum system
The South African government is preparing to ask a court to place the Department of Home Affairs under judicial supervision as it moves to repair the country's broken asylum system. The unusual step would see the judiciary oversee the department's handling of asylum seekers, who have faced years of backlogs, long delays and chronic administrative failures in processing refugee claims.
Why now: Government intervention in Home Affairs signals how severe the dysfunction in the asylum system has become.
South African governmentDepartment of Home AffairsDaily Maverick
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