Director-General Tommy Makhode said a study visa would ordinarily take eight weeks to process but in this case, an International Relations official did much of the decision-making.
CAPE TOWN - The 95 Libyan nationals who came to South Africa to train at a military camp in Mpumalanga received their visas in just three days.
Schreiber: Matter of 95 deported Libyans symptoms of a 'crisis that threatens national security interests' By its own admission, the Home Affairs Department said there were lots of irregularities surrounding the issuing of visas for 100 Libyan nationals to attend the White River training facility. Makhode said that the department had to shoulder some of the blame because it only operated with around 40% of the staff it needed and didn’t have enough resources to deploy officials to all of the country’s 115 foreign missions."There’s no indication on some of the application forms that the applicants were applying for study visas. The indication here is that the official decided to grant the study visa.
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