{"id":40146,"date":"2024-03-04T22:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=40146"},"modified":"2024-03-10T22:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T22:54:22","slug":"south-africa-mbeki-takes-aim-at-motsoaledis-white-paper-on-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-mbeki-takes-aim-at-motsoaledis-white-paper-on-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Mbeki takes aim at Motsoaledi\u2019s white paper on migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lizeka Tandwa<\/p>\n<p>Former president Thabo Mbeki has criticised Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi\u2019s White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection in a letter written to the department, calling for it to be improved.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter seen by the Mail &amp; Guardian and dated 31 January, Mbeki pointed to discrepancies and \u201cvery serious omissions\u201d in the white paper (WP) which he said, \u201cmake it impossible for our population to make the constructive comments requested\u201d by the minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is \u2026 not written in a manner which empowers the citizens, not members of the DHA (Department of Home Affairs), to make any meaningful comment about what are critically important matters. Accordingly, I humbly suggested that the Draft WP should be improved, taking into account the comments above, and others, and then re-published for public comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/news\/2024-03-04-mbeki-takes-aim-at-motsoaledis-white-paper-on-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/mg.co.za\/news\/2024-03-04-mbeki-takes-aim-at-motsoaledis-white-paper-on-migration\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Lizeka Tandwa Former president Thabo Mbeki has criticised Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi\u2019s White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection in a letter written to the department, calling for it to be improved. In a letter seen by the Mail &amp; Guardian and dated 31 January, Mbeki pointed to discrepancies and \u201cvery serious [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-695","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40147,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40146\/revisions\/40147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}