The Star reported that the wife’s encounter had led to her falling pregnant. The child was now four-years-old.

The newspaper did not name the man and his wife to protect the child’s identity.

According to court papers submitted to the Western Cape High Court, the man moved to South Africa in November 2003, met a South African woman soon after and married her the next month.

He was issued a permanent residence permit in March 2004 and applied for citizenship.

In late 2007 or early 2008, Home Affairs officials met his wife, and told her that “due to corruption,” all nationals married to foreigners had to be re-interviewed.  

The man was reportedly “appalled” to later learn from the department that his wife had given birth, as he had not known she was pregnant. 

In a letter from the department in June 2010, he said it was stated that his marriage was invalid because his wife had a child with another man.  

To keep his permit, he had to make submissions to show they had a “good-faith spousal relationship” for at least three years after the permit was issued.

If the department found otherwise, his permit would be revoked and he stood to be “arrested and permanently expelled from this country”.

After submitting his representations to the department in July 2010, and receiving no response, he took the minister of home affairs and her director general to court.

The Star reported that in May the court compelled the department to provide the Pakistani man with a response to his representation within 30 days. However, he had yet to receive a response.

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Sep 25, 2012

BraSipho

Oh the clever Home Afairs.

They are soooo corrupt.
For a R1000.00, they will even provide you with a fake wife!
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Sep 25, 2012

Honeybadger

Home Affairs must keep deporting this people; even for the slightest excuse. That way the will run out of money to come back into the country illegally
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Sep 25, 2012

Kon-Tiki

Stop the lies. The foreighner paid the local South Africa seller to marry and stay in the country. Home affairs people did not get their cut in the arranged marriage. They did their investigation and found that the 'married' couple did not stay together. Well done to the Home Affairs investigators. How can you not know that your wife had a baby? Get off it and go home. There is a village somewhere in Pakistan that misses your scarce skill.
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Sep 25, 2012

Papage

You see now, Nkosasana Zuma is gone, now this?
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Sep 25, 2012

BraSipho

The latest on this:
The Pakistani took the minister to court on Friday.
No one from Home affairs was there to state thier case so he was awarded "costs", meaning the minister, meaning YOU and ME, have to pay for the case!!

Thank you Home affairs. Again you look like mamparras.
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Sep 25, 2012

Bebesocs

Shocked, shocked shocked , not when the likes of Angie Motshekga were singing the praises of Nkosazana Zuma, oh well disciplined is Mrs Zuma and the department had no corruption oh where are we going to get another person like her... whats this now?
That man also is not on the right side of the law he went for mishaqa and got this so he should be questioned in court as he has taken people to court, he should explain to us public how did he get the papers and passport? we want to know he is not the saint.
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