Cape Town mayor Dan Plato addresses refugees camped outside the UNHCR

Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers are camping outside the UNHCR offices in Cape Town.Refugees and asylum seekers have camped outside the United Nations Refugee Agency at the Waldorf Arcade in Cape Town for. There are over 200 people participating in this protest. They say they are victims of xenophobia and are demanding to be resettled outside of South Africa.

“We had no other choice,” he said. But coming to South Africa has been “more inhumane than what we have seen in our home”. Refugees held signs stating “STOP KILLING US” and marched up and down the street chanting “No more South Africa! We want to go!”Ahmed Mudde has been staying in South Africa for 12 years. Originally from Somalia, he said he left the country because of civil war. “We were expecting to get a better life in South Africa,” he said, but since living here things have been worse.

Mudde is married and has a four-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter. He said that he lost his son’s birth certificate and is now unable to get him a new one. He is now unable to register his child for school.Nadine Nkurikiye left her home in Burundi because of war.“South Africa, we are tired. We have already faced a lot of things,” said Nadine Nkurikiye who has been staying in South Africa for 13 years. She left Burundi in 2006 because of war.

Why are they here in the first place and who invited them. The same way they came in the country is the same way they will have to leave

Just does not make sense that this is staged in CT ..What xenophobic attacks have there been in the WC ? That said if they want to return home ..they paid to come here , they can do the same to return home

They must go home

NXA

These people are chancers , abusing the hospitality of South Africans and the stupidity of South African government!

Abahambe ngolahlobo bangene ngalo yinton enzima?

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