South Africa encourages permanent residency if you are serious about staying in South Africa on a long terms permanent basis there are many categories you can apply under.
Hold a Critical Skills Visa and have 5 years relevant work experience.
Be in a proven life relationship relationship for five years
Be married to an SA relationship for at least five years.
Have held Refugee Asylum Status for five years.

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The Department of Home Affairs says it has no legal obligation to formulate legal representation for undocumented foreign nationals in South Africa.
The department was updating the Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs on issues of state funded legal representation for undocumented foreign nationals.

This includes its work in collaboration with the Department of Social Development on foreign individuals including children who are migrants in the country.
“The legal aid board chair, through the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development take this entire process. So, Home Affairs is not involved in any way in arranging or facilitating the legal representation chair. So, in this point, clearly, it’s not the function of the Department of Home Affairs or state funded legal aid for foreign nationals, that resort squarely with the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development,” Western Cape Home Affairs
Department Provincial Manager Yusuf Simons explains.
The Department of Home Affairs says it is aiming at significantly reducing the expenditure on court cases during this financial year. Home Affairs Minister Dr Leon Schreiber says under the current fiscal projection, they want to prioritize the reduction of the legal spending.
“I think that is in on itself in the current budget environment, it’s a very clear reason for us to focus in this area and make sure we reduce the burden of legal cases on this department. I would say that it is part of the spending reviews and efficiency gains that has been much talked about. And I think when the presentation follows, we will see progress in that regard. I don’t think we have figures yet on the financial side. But I think this is the work in progress and hopeful during this financial year we will be able to quantify the savings that have come from this work. But it is real hundred millions of rands that we can save,” says Schreiber.

Schreiber has revealed that there are a number of class-action court cases against his department.
The minister says court applications against the department vary on either refugee or asylum status requests. He, however, says there is a slight decrease in litigations since the start of the seventh administration.

“I think if we come to the presentation the reference is to 1 684 class-actions alone. So, this is just one category of litigation against the department. And they broadly would have involved these kinds of issues, procedural issues. People are saying I have applied but I have waited one two three years and now I am taking the department as part of the class-action to court. The good news chair is that we have seen at 98% reduction in a number of class action cases. I think that this is something to be celebrated. I think it’s an extraordinal achievement.”

Minister Enoch Godongwana at the media briefing ahead of the national budget speech at Imbizo Media Centre on May 21, 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa. The budget speech provides an overview of the economy of the previous and current years and also gives budget estimates for the next financial year.(Photo: Gallo Images / Brenton Geach)

From grant recipients and healthcare, to education and Home Affairs, this is an overview of the May 2025 Budget allocations.
A rocky road lies ahead for social grant recipients who will see no increase in the amounts they receive over the next two years. This is just one of several changes revealed by Treasury this week in the third iteration of the National Budget for 2025.

Those in the public sector who were hoping to take advantage of the early retirement programme will have to hop to it. The R11-billion allocation over the medium term has been slashed to R5.5-billion, which means the potential 11,000 employees who could have benefited has been halved to 5,500.
Treasury director-general Duncan Pieterse said part of the reason for halving the allocation is that there is a process under way with the bargaining council for the current financial year. The previously projected savings of about R7-billion would also be reduced to about R3.5-billion.

Slight acceleration for the fuel levy
Consumers will also take a hit with a 4% (inflationary) increase to the fuel levy that will see petrol go up by 16 cents a litre, while diesel increases by 15c a litre – effective from 4 June this year. In other words, Treasury is clawing back the R4-billion relief that would have been seen had the fuel levy not increased. However, this is the first fuel levy increase since 2021.
The zero-rated foods increase (on canned vegetables such as chickpeas and baked beans, edible offal of sheep, poultry and other animals, and dairy liquid blends) is now out the window.
Importantly, additions to front-line services such as education, health and Home Affairs remain in place, although they have been revised downward.

Healthcare
The three-year allocation for health (provincial health compensation costs, unemployed doctors and goods and services) shifts down from R28.9-billion in the March Budget presentation to R20.7-billion in the Budget tabled this week. This funding will cover the employment of 800 doctors who have completed their community service, safeguard about 4,700 health posts and address shortages in medical goods, services and accruals. The May 2025 Budget overview document states that an additional R1.4-billion is earmarked for the construction of Siloam Hospital and the implementation of public-private partnership health technology at Tygerberg Hospital.

Home Affairs
Lines at Home affairs (Hell Affairs) are destined to remain long for the foreseeable future. While the March Budget allocated an additional R3.3-billion over three years for digitisation and “human resource capacitation”, it has been reduced to R965-million. Importantly, the line item in the “spending additions funded over the MTEF period” now only reads “digitisation”, which means the “human resource capacitation” or jobs or training element has been dropped.

Education
The additional spending for education shifts from R29.5-billion in March 2025 to R19.5-billion. This will go towards safeguarding about 5,500 teacher posts and increasing the early childhood development (ECD) subsidy from R17 per child per day to R24. The May 2025 Budget overview document then says that “additional funding of R10-billion over the medium term will expand ECD access to an additional 700,000 children up to the age of five years old”.

Defence
“The R5-billion we had proposed to allocate to the Department of Defence for its participation in the SADC mission in the DRC is reduced,” said Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.
However, the SANDF allocation for 2025/26 has been increased from R1.8-billion to R3-billion. “This will cover the immediate costs of an orderly and safe withdrawal of our troops and mission equipment,” Godongwana said.

Anticipated spending pressures
Initiatives that may require funding later this year include:
• The withdrawal of the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) funding, particularly through USAID;
• Infrastructure projects in the Budget Facility for Infrastructure and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa rolling stock fleet renewal programme;
• Accommodating population changes that impact on the provincial equitable share allocations;
• Strengthening capabilities in the Office of the Chief Justice and Statistics South Africa;
• Political party funding and infrastructure provision for royal houses; and
• The National Social Dialogue

Top 5 Things to Know about South African Visa Renewals

When is it a good time to start with the renewal ?
Picture this – it’s Monday and in a quiet moment you decide to go through your foreign employees’ documents.

To your shock you discover that one employee’s visa is due for renewal – at the end of the week.

Suddenly, your Monday is a whole lot bluer! You have no idea how you’re going to do this. You don’t even know if it’s still possible to submit a renewal!

Take a deep breath – this does not have to happen to you.
You can avoid any visa renewal shocks and surprises simply by keeping these 5 facts in mind:

1. Did you know applications must be submitted at least 60 days before the expiry date of the visa

South Africa’ Immigration Act requires visa holders to submit renewals at least 60 days before the expiry date of their visa. Visa holders may also submit renewals earlier but no earlier than 6 months prior to a visa’s expiry date.

Our advice? Don’t wait for the 60 days! Submit as early as possible to allow for unforeseen hiccups.

2. Start the groundwork early
The process of renewing a South African visa is the same as applying for a new visa. For this reason, it is advisable to start preparing for a renewal well in advance.

When it comes to work visas specifically, there are often multiple steps that need to be followed before being able to submit the renewal to the authorities. Given the backlog at Home Affairs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we recommend starting the preparation process 12 months in advance.

3. The visa holder must meet all the requirements again
To apply for a visa extension, the visa holder must be able to meet the requirements of their visa again. This includes any new requirements or changes to requirements that were made by the Department of Home Affairs since the previous application or renewal.

Applicants who can’t meet the requirements of their visa will most likely not get a visa extension.
That does not mean it’s the end of the road! Unsuccessful renewal applicants can get assessed against all of South Africa’s immigration requirements to see if they perhaps qualify for another visa that lets them work in South Africa.

4. Keep critical documentation up to date
Want to save yourself a lot of headaches? Ensure that documentation with expiry dates are always valid. By keeping documents up to date, you’ll see to it that you’re ready to proceed with renewals as soon as it’s necessary.

Police clearances is one example of documentation with an expiry date. These documents are only valid for 6 months from the date of issuance. The passport expiration date is also an important one to keep in mind. It is impossible to apply for a visa with an expired passport.

5. Extensions must be submitted in South Africa
All extensions must be submitted in South Africa, at a VFS application centre. Visa holders can’t submit extensions outside of South Africa.

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