Leon Amos Schreiber
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Oct 17, 2026
Helen ZilleGUEST
And that enables us, if you're one of the 95% whose application gets turned down, to be deported immediately.
Helen ZilleGUEST
The other thing that Leon Schreiber, who's our minister, is doing is he has this Operation New Broom project in which he has already deported more than 200,000 illegal immigrants over the last two and a half years.
Helen ZilleGUEST
And that is far more than, for example, Aaron Mutsualedi did over five years.
Helen ZilleGUEST
And, you know, mayors can shout their mouths off about it, or mayoral candidates can shout their mouths off about this issue.
Helen ZilleGUEST
There's not a single thing they can do to deport anyone.
Helen ZilleGUEST
Mayors don't have a... any power or any mandate to deport anyone.
Helen ZilleGUEST
But Leon Schreiber has deported more than 200,000 people.
Helen ZilleGUEST
And if he can bring in this new biometric system, it'll speed up the whole thing so that the government can at last apply
Zimasa VabazaHOST
Digital is great until it isn't because you're not plugged into the system.
Zimasa VabazaHOST
In South Africa, Home Affairs Minister, Leon Schreiber, had outlined an ambitious timeline to stop issuing green ID books by the end of twenty twenty-five, that was last year.
Zimasa VabazaHOST
Also, discontinuing them entirely by twenty twenty-nine, while expanding smart ID cards and issuance through new live capture systems and bank branches.
Zimasa VabazaHOST
The Mayi Mzansi digital public infrastructure roadmap envisions a state-controlled data spine linking home affairs, revenue, social grants, and other core systems together in a digital ID format.
Wendy KnowlerGUEST
Oh, she's lovely.
Wendy KnowlerGUEST
Her name's Carli van Wyk, and she's Home Af- Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber's, um, spokesperson-
Pippa HudsonHOST
Okay
Wendy KnowlerGUEST
... um, who I've met in person recently.
Nicholas LorimerHOST
And understandably, that created a lot of anger and fury.
Nicholas LorimerHOST
There was also lots of electioneering stuff going on here with AI-generated images of the DA minister of Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, welcoming asylum seekers and sort of weird stuff like that that was made to look like it was a DA pamphlet but was usually fake.
Nicholas LorimerHOST
Jacinta did comment on this, describing this as the United Nations' imposed registration of illegal immigrants.
Nicholas LorimerHOST
What's your take on all this, Makone?
Mmamoloko KubayiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Such an order may also include a suspension period to allow the Department of Home Affairs the necessary time to develop and strengthen administrative, human resource, infrastructure, and processing capacity required to implement the judgment effectively and sustainably.
Ditaba TsotetsiCORRESPONDENT
Meanwhile, Home Affairs Minister Dr. Leon Schreiber says that the department will introduce a phased structure intention registration and appointment model for asylum seeker applications by the tenth of next month.
Leon SchreiberSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This biometric platform will require anyone who wants to apply for asylum to upload biometrics, which we will then verify.
Leon SchreiberSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We will have the capability through the system to check whether you've previously, uh, had a case that you lodged which was rejected for asylum.
Macfarlane MoleliHOST
So let's give credit where it's due.
Macfarlane MoleliHOST
Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, the former Minister of Home Affairs, recognized the need to reconsider South Africa's approach.
Macfarlane MoleliHOST
In November, back in 2023, he proposed reviewing the country's position and the United Nations Refugee Convention and its 1967 protocol with a view to withdrawing and rejoining with reservations permitted under international law.
Macfarlane MoleliHOST
He also proposed a broader overhaul of immigration and refugee protection.
Macfarlane MoleliHOST
No more.
Macfarlane MoleliHOST
South Africans are asking for a different approach and government needs to listen.
Macfarlane MoleliHOST
This current Minister of Home Affairs, Dr. Leon Schreiber, must show how the government intends to respond.
Macfarlane MoleliHOST
A proposal is not implementation.
Martine van der Walt EhlersHOST
Joburg 29, Pretoria 31, Mafeking 33.
Martine van der Walt EhlersHOST
Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber says government is seeking legal clarity on the detention and deportation of foreign nationals whose asylum applications have been rejected.
Martine van der Walt EhlersHOST
Speaking at a media briefing earlier today on the Constitutional Court judgment on asylum seekers, Schreiber says a Gauteng High Court panel will consider whether authorities can detain individuals under the Immigration Act while legal proceedings are ongoing.
Martine van der Walt EhlersHOST
He says recent Concord rulings also prevent rejected asylum seekers from prolonging the process through repeated applications.
Nazli ShariefHOST
I like greener pastures
Luyanda MpithiHOST
... um, uh, led by Dr. Schreiber, uh, Leon Schreiber, our DA minister.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
minister.Home Affairs Minister Dr Leon Schreiber is expected to launch the department's Quantum Leap Project as government steps up efforts to modernize home affairs services.
Nazli ShariefHOST
In less than two years, the green ID book that's prone to fraud and corruption will no longer be functional or recognized in South Africa.
Leon SchreiberSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now is the time to leverage the radical reform of Home Affairs-
Nazli ShariefHOST
[laughs]
Geordin Hill-LewisGUEST
Yeah.
Luyanda MpithiHOST
And I mean, and I mean, when we listen to the minister there, uh, Dr Leon Schreiber, he speaks about this not only being an innovation, but, um, the fact that security aspects of the smart card, uh, as, as was mentioned, uh, you know, it gives a lot of safety-
Bongiwe ZwaneHOST
Not acceptable.
Bongiwe ZwaneHOST
The acting police minister there, Professor Feroz Kachhalia, and then Home Affairs Minister Dr Leon Schreiber says the department does not support the release of asylum seekers who have been arrested for being in the country illegally while their applications are being processed.
Leon SchreiberSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The one judgment says that people must be released while their asylum application is processed.
Leon SchreiberSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The other judgment says that they can be detained during that process.
Bongiwe ZwaneHOST
Not acceptable.
Bongiwe ZwaneHOST
The acting police minister there, Professor Feroz Kachhalia, and then Home Affairs Minister Dr Leon Schreiber says the department does not support the release of asylum seekers who have been arrested for being in the country illegally while their applications are being processed.
Leon SchreiberSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The one judgment says that people must be released while their asylum application is processed.
Leon SchreiberSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The other judgment says that they can be detained during that process.
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