Asylum seekers | Applications mount while High Court seeks legal certainty on approach

Asylum seekers are flooding Refugee Centres around the country, to make their applications, and the Department of Home Affairs is obliged to process them due to a binding Constitutional Court judgment.

The apex court's July judgment in Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town and Another v Minister of Home Affairs and Others, confirmed an order of constitutional invalidity against parts of the Refugees Act.

This, however, is NOT synonymous with citizenship or voting rights.

SABC News Senior Reporter, Canny Maphanga, explains why.

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