Claim: South Africa's Minister of Home Affairs gives greenlight for police to conduct spot immigration checks? Not quite
Fact-check: South Africa's Minister of Home Affairs gives greenlight for police to conduct spot immigration checks? Not quite
Verdict: a tweet claiming south africa's home affairs minister has given police the authority to spot check migrants' immigration status has many in the country up in arms, comparing this to notorious pass laws from the apartheid past. but this authority isn't new – police have this right based on a 20-year-old immigration act.
Organisation: Africa Check
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2022-10-27T00:00:00