About 300,000 foreigners have sought asylum in SA since 2013: Aaron Motsoaledi

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Mostoaledi revealed that 2014 saw the most foreign nationals approach the department for asylum, with just over 70,000 applications received.

This is according to home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi, who was responding to a written parliamentary question by IFP MP Liezl Of these, 68,000 were processed up to the first level of adjudication.

Last year saw applications for asylum plummet to 18,000 in what has been a consistent decrease since 2013. Numbers for 2019 had not yet been tallied by the time of Motsoaledi's response, which is dated November 22.

 

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Probably the highest in Africa, yet we are still labeled xenophobic.

All from Africa I suppose. Who else would want to come and live here? Telling a story of the future.

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Asylum from what? These are just fortune-seekers.

They hate us but they love our country, They call us xenophobic but when they jump that border fence they don't even look back, Nxa

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