The state will ask a court to supervise Home Affairs.

Home Affairs has 5 reception offices, and deportations continue for people who have not applied for asylum.

On 7 July the Constitutional Court struck down Refugees Act limits on asylum for irregular entrants and anyone reporting after five days.

The new online registration system is due 10 November, and a High Court panel sits 29 October.

How each outlet framed it
Daily Maverick
frames the protests as a legal-procedural problem, with the government seeking a supervisory order and suspension to implement the 7 July asylum ruling

Sources: Daily Maverick