LETTER: SA is and will always be open to bona fide business and tourists
IT’S HARD to figure where Gary Eisenberg got this idea that Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba prefers an "isolationist policy" (Gigaba appears to favour an isolationist policy, June 8).Unpersuasive also is the claim the Minister’s address to the Cape Town Press Club in May excluded a policy recognising the importance of foreigners’ contribution.The Minister’s opening statement thanked the Press Club for the interactive session for sharing ideas on "how the better to build a Department of Home Affairs that responds to the needs of its clients, both SA citizens as well as foreign nationals whom we serve". This framed the address in its awareness of benefits of international migration.Contrary to Eisenberg’s views, the Minister, consistent with our mandate, outlined current priorities as they relate to clients — citizens and foreign nationals — most of which unpacked in his 2016/17 budget vote speech, the subject of that briefing session.With innovations introduced as part of the dep...
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