Question NW72 to the Minister of Home Affairs
08 July 2019 - NW72
Pambo, Mr V to ask the Minister of Home Affairs
(a) What number of requests for asylum have been processed by his department in each of the past 10 financial years, (b) from which countries were the individuals whose asylum requests were granted and (c) what number of such requests is still outstanding?
Reply:
a) The total number of cases processed per year for the past 10 years (First instance adjudication):
|
Year |
Total |
|
2009 |
157 204 |
|
2010 |
77 071 |
|
2011 |
43 953 |
|
2012 |
63 228 |
|
2013 |
68 241 |
|
2014 |
75 733 |
|
2015 |
60 640 |
|
2016 |
41 241 |
|
2017 |
27 980 |
|
2018 |
18 104 |
b) The cases granted for the past 10 years per country according to the Departmental system is as below:
|
Country |
Total |
|
Somalia |
36512 |
|
DRC |
25953 |
|
Ethiopia |
18022 |
|
Congo |
4859 |
|
Zimbabwe |
3432 |
|
Burundi |
2774 |
|
Angola |
2365 |
|
Eritrea |
2096 |
|
Rwanda |
1416 |
|
Bangladesh |
563 |
|
Uganda |
443 |
|
Cameroon |
368 |
|
Kenya |
143 |
|
Sudan |
134 |
|
Zambia |
69 |
|
Liberia |
51 |
|
Syria |
47 |
|
Palestine |
41 |
|
Ivory Coast |
37 |
|
Tanzania |
32 |
|
Pakistan |
28 |
|
Sierra Leone |
19 |
|
Sri Lanka |
15 |
|
Iraq |
15 |
|
Russia |
13 |
|
Togo |
12 |
|
Nigeria |
11 |
|
Ghana |
11 |
|
Solomon Islands |
10 |
|
Malawi |
9 |
|
Swaziland |
7 |
|
Central African Republic |
7 |
|
Ukraine |
7 |
|
Turkey |
6 |
|
Egypt |
6 |
|
Mali |
6 |
|
India |
6 |
|
Afghanistan |
5 |
|
Other |
5 |
|
Morocco |
4 |
|
Estonia |
4 |
|
Namibia |
4 |
|
Yemen |
3 |
|
Mozambique |
3 |
|
Bulgaria |
3 |
|
Myanmar (Burma) |
3 |
|
Lebanon |
3 |
|
Niger |
3 |
|
Iran |
3 |
|
Seychelles |
3 |
|
China |
2 |
|
Macau |
2 |
|
Bahamas |
2 |
|
Jordan |
2 |
|
Gabon |
2 |
|
Saint Kitts and Nevis |
2 |
|
Comoros |
2 |
|
Benin |
2 |
|
Lesotho |
2 |
|
Kyrgyzstan |
1 |
|
Guinea Bissau |
1 |
|
East Timor |
1 |
|
Poland |
1 |
|
Colombia |
1 |
|
Brazil |
1 |
|
Senegal |
1 |
|
Chad |
1 |
|
Oman |
1 |
|
Algeria |
1 |
|
Djibouti |
1 |
|
Sweden |
1 |
|
Cambodia |
1 |
|
Libya |
1 |
|
Principality of Andorra |
1 |
|
Grand Total |
99624 |
(c) As at 31 December 2018 there were 3 534 cases still to be processed by the Refugee Status Determination Officers.
END