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Gary Eisenberg

Gary Eisenberg is the founding attorney at Eisenberg & Associates

City of Cape Town law enforcement evicted several hundred people who had been living on the streets around Greenmarket Square for over four months. Last year hundreds of refugees gathered outside the UNHCR offices in Cape Town demanding to be relocated out of South Africa due to xenophobic violence and crime they face. (David Harrison/M&G)

27 APR 2020

South Africa needs a constitutionally compliant immigration policy

For Jewish people, ‘You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.’ South Africans should…

Gary Eisenberg

8 min read

Nowhere to go: Zimbabwean
special permit holders outside Home Affairs.
(Madelene Cronjé)

AARON MOTSOALEDI

11 MAR 2020

Anarchy rules at home affairs

It is unwise to entrust our fingerprints, biographical details and legislative authority to a syndicate of delinquent government officials

Gary Eisenberg

6 min read

Immigration applications are submitted to South Africa’s 124 foreign missions, but each seems to have its own set of requirements. (Jacques Demarthon/Reuters)

HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT

31 MAY 2019

Immigration Act upended by legal chaos

Every foreigner, including investors, has to hurdle ignorant officials and a multiplicity of ‘laws’

Gary Eisenberg

4 min read