2025 Wrapped at Home Affairs! A year of unprecedented progress as our commitment to digital transformation delivered tangible service improvements. We’ve only gotten started and can’t wait to show you what’s in store in 2026 as we deliver 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 @ 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦! 🇿🇦

As the custodian of South Africa’s population register, I can confirm that the legal basis for racial classification and the cornerstone of formal Apartheid, the Population Registration Act of 1950, was repealed in 1991. This was followed by the creation of a non-racial

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To ensure that you can obtain travel and enabling documents to spend precious time with friends and family, #TeamHomeAffairs is extending operating hours over the Festive Season. We are committed to deliver dignity for all! 🇿🇦

Good afternoon from your GNU! 🇿🇦

The man ending the "System is Offline" in South Africa The second youngest minister in the Government of National Unity often dips into the public spotlight with announcements of new digitalisation projects at Home Affairs. https://t.co/CCzEddZIq5

Operation New Broom again swept through Cape Town, arresting dozens more illegal immigrants. Once deported, they’re also banned from legally reentering South Africa. If you’re here illegally, go home now - before we catch you and similarly ban you from legally entering in future.

🎥 This week, #TeamHomeAffairs launched our groundbreaking new citizenship verification and reinstatement service. Watch the explainer video to understand how this new biometrically-secured platform works. 🛂 The same technology already powers our new Electronic Travel

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Today, #TeamHomeAffairs breaks new ground as we launch https://t.co/4KDE4CXVzX, where any South African can verify their citizenship and confirm reinstatement of citizenship if it had been unconstitutionally withdrawn. In keeping with our commitment to use digital transformation

For the G20, we did a soft launch of our groundbreaking Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) that automates and digitalises tourist visas. It works beautifully. The coming expansion of the ETA for secure and efficient migration will be a lasting legacy of SA’s G20 presidency! 🇿🇦

The Democratic Alliance congratulates all of the South African government on securing agreement on the Leaders' Declaration today at the G20 Leaders Summit. This declaration represents a significant and positive outcome. 🇿🇦

Operation New Broom swept through Mayfair in Joburg with our most successful operation to date, as 391 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested for deportation. In communities across SA, Home Affairs is ramping up enforcement to restore rule of law in our immigration system! 🇿🇦

Home Affairs has opened a new 2 500m² state-of-the-art office, equipped with our latest technological upgrades, at the Baywest Mall in Gqeberha. Following shortly on the completion of the new office in Matatiele, we are delivering dignity for the people of the Eastern Cape! 🇿🇦

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I am proud to launch the Screen Talent and Global Entertainment Scheme (STAGES), Home Affairs’ new digital visa platform for filmmakers and creatives. Through digital transformation and efficient visa turnaround times, STAGES boosts SA as a leading production destination! 🇿🇦

The adoption by the National Assembly yesterday of the One-Stop Border Post Bill is the very definition of pro-growth reform by the GNU. It lays the foundation to slash red tape and delays, digitalise and modernise border processes, and boost regional trade to create jobs! 🇿🇦

It was an honour to be invited back to Princeton University, where I studied and worked for five years at the Innovations for Successful Societies programme, to deliver a guest lecture on the rapid progress we are making at Home Affairs. Working to build a country on the up! 🇿🇦

Great to open our newest service centres in Canada and the USA that cut turnaround times for Passports from up to 18 months, to just weeks. We’ve also introduced optional doorstep delivery for the first time, as we work to deliver dignity for all South Africans, everywhere!🇿🇦

It was great to represent South Africa at the 2025 Berlin Global Dialogue. In a world of shifting power, fundamental and urgent reform like we are driving at Home Affairs can position us as a country firmly on the up! 🇿🇦

This is a fantastic and well-earned development for our country. Much work remains to be done, but South Africa’s removal from the grey list demonstrates that through focused and urgent implementation, we can drive the reforms our economy needs to grow and create jobs! 🇿🇦

Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Leon Schreiber, on Wednesday announced the introduction of doorstep passport delivery for South African citizens living abroad — a first in the department’s history. https://t.co/1LD0QhtYVr