Media Statements

Media Statements and Press Releases submitted by the Helen Suzman Foundation.
HSF rejects finalisation of white paper on citizenship, immigration and refugee protection
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 18 Apr 2024
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) is dismayed by Cabinet’s decision to adopts as final the White Paper on the Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection: Towards a Complete Overhaul of the Migration System in South Africa (White Paper). This, despite strenuous objections from numerous civil society organizations, including HSF.
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Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Litigation
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 05 Nov 2023
The Helen Suzman Foundation needs to expose a scandalous falsehood being put out by a shadowy organisation calling itself Put South Africa First.
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Minister of Home Affairs Decision to Terminate ZEP Set Aside
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 28 Jun 2023
As today’s judgment in the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) matter makes clear, what is at stake are matters both of enormous consequence but also striking ordinariness.
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Manuel Chang Must Now Be Extradited to the USA
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 25 May 2023
Former Mozambican Finance Minister and Member of Parliament, Manuel Chang must now be extradited to and prosecuted in the USA for allegedly defrauding the Mozambican people of some $2bn in development loans extended by American investors.
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HSF Statement Re National Shutdown
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 16 Mar 2023
The call for a national shutdown is not one which we take lightly. Like millions of South Africans we are gatvol of the crises that are of our political leaders’ making but are ours to endure.
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In memoriam Charles Simkins
Author: Helen Suzman Foundation
Published: 12 Dec 2022
It is with great sadness that the Helen Suzman Foundation has received news of the death of Charles Simkins. He had been in hospital over the past few months and had, until his illness, been head of research at the Foundation, a position he had held for 8 years.
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