Home Affairs pulls asylum directive after violent anti-migrant protests
The South African Department of Home Affairs has withdrawn an operational directive intended to expand asylum processing following a wave of violent protests and misinformation. Also in this briefing: Navi Pillay is awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize; former president Jacob Zuma is hospitalized in Pietermaritzburg; and astronomers using MeerKAT and the James Webb Space Telescope detect the most distant fast radio burst ever recorded.
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Home Affairs withdrew an asylum directive after false rumors about voting rights sparked violent metro unrest.
Twenty-four vehicles were torched across Durban and Johannesburg following a Constitutional Court ruling on asylum entry.
Navi Pillay became the fifth South African Nobel Peace laureate for her work in international law.
Jacob Zuma’s hospitalization under military supervision has disrupted MK Party campaigning weeks before local elections.
Astronomers used the MeerKAT and Webb telescopes to locate a radio burst ten billion light-years away.
Radio wave delays from distant dwarf galaxies allow scientists to map invisible intergalactic plasma.
- 01Intro1 min
- 02Home Affairs pulls asylum directive: The Outbreak of Unrest2 min
- 03Home Affairs pulls asylum directive: The Aftermath and Next Steps2 min
- 04Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize1 min
- 05Jacob Zuma in hospital, Ramaphosa confirms1 min
- 06MeerKAT and Webb pinpoint the most distant fast radio burst ever recorded2 min
- 07Outro1 min
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- Home Affairs scraps asylum seeker directive after violence in Durban and Soweto
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- Home Affairs Director-General withdraws asylum directive | South African Government
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- Home Affairs withdraws directive on asylum seeker applications - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.
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- Home Affairs withdraws asylum directive, but Constitutional Court ruling remains in force
- Nobel Peace Prize 2026 awarded to Navanethem
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- Press release
- South Africa's ex-president Zuma under medical treatment - Ramaphosa
- Jacob Zuma hospitalised, South Africa's Ramaphosa confirms treatment
- Zuma's health sparks concern within MKP leadership, but no 'crisis meeting' yet - Inside Politics
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- Webb Measures Distance to Farthest Fast Radio Burst, Suggesting Origin - NASA Science
- Identification of the host galaxy of the most distant fast radio burst ever observed – Observatoire de Paris - PSL - Centre de recherche en astronomie et astrophysique
- Astronomers detect mysterious burst of energy from a galaxy far, far away
- A fast radio burst from the first 3 billion years of the Universe
- Fast Radio Burst Shatters Distance Record
- Webb telescope detects galaxy origin of the farthest fast radio burst we
- The Most Distant FRB Tells The Story Of Its Origin
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