The Department of Home Affairs has spent nearly R413 million in legal fees over the past five years.
The Department of Home Affairs has spent over R412.95 million in legal fees since the start of the 2018/19 financial year – with over R117.69 million of this spent between 1 April 2023 and 29 February 2024.
DHA then exponentially increased the amount spent on state legal services in 2019/20 by around 18 times more than the previous year, with these eight-figure bills remaining ever since. 2023/24 has seen the department spend, for the first time in this period, considerably more on private legal services than on state – over 21 times more than it did in 2018/2019.Home Affairs has seen a steady rise in not only the amount of litigation that the department initiates, but in the amount of times it has been dragged to court.
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