Minister Naledi Pandor says the Department of Home Affairs is one of the most important departments in our country that plays an extremely important and strategic role in meeting the overall objectives and priorities that our country seek to achieve. Minister Pandor was addressing senior managers of the Department of Home Affairs at a workshop held in Pretoria on Tuesday 20 November 2012.
“It is linked in a very significant fashion to overturning all negative imprint of apartheid that characterised our society for many decades. The issues we deal with are those that restore the full status and identity to persons who were denied such features in their life for many decades. So we play an extremely important role in the process of nation building for South Africa. And As I said we have a role to play in every one of the five priorities that government had set for itself” continued Minister Pandor.
“Beyond that we also have very significant contribution in the international domain of South African relations with the global community of nations, because we are the ones who determine how migrants come into our country, how they are treated when they are in our country and how in particular our humanitarian obligations are met by South Africa including every important obligations arising from the Geneva Convention and many United Nations Conventions that influence how we relate to those who are not nationals in our country” concluded Minister Pandor.
