umnuz mqadi uthi uma ebona owomdabu wasendiya ezodla nomndeni wakhe kule ndawo. ufikelwa yizinyembezi asho ukuthi ulifezile iphupho lakhe lokuqinisa ubumbano kule lizwe futhi aseke uhulumeni. Department of misery STEFANIE DE SAUDE-DARBANDI THE fallout from Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba awarding citizenship status to the controversial Gupta family is but a taste of the misery that his department inflicts on thousands of immigrants and residents every year. And while there is an effort to correct the perceived wrongs regarding this family, the truth is that Home Affairs fails spectacularly in its constitutional duties on a consistent basis, negatively affecting tens of thousands of law-abiding people every year. In an extraordinary few days, the nation saw Gigaba first deny that Atul and Ajay Gupta were granted South African citizenship, before Home Affairs director-general Mkuseli Apleni clarified that both brothers had been naturalised as far back as 2002 and 2006, respectively. The family’s citizenship was previously awarded under unspecified “exceptional circumstances”, although it was reported in 2017 that the family did not meet the prescribed requirements. The directorgeneral reiterated earlier this month that the decision to grant early natural-