Cape Town refugee crisis far from over amid government squabbles

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Government's plans to deal with foreign nationals who occupied the Greenmarket Square in Cape Town a year ago remains unclear as the City of Cape Town and the department of home affairs squabble accusing each other of shrugging off their responsibilitie...

The SA Human Rights Commission told MPs that the three biggest challenges at the two sites were access control as both sites are not controlled, health assessments of the two populations and the question around their documentation were required.

“In Wingfield, which is military land owned the department of public works, we saw a movement from about 400 people who were originally moved to now about 700 or 800 people,” said Galant. Galant said the camps need to be stabilised, something that government has failed to do since moving people to these sites. “And much of that has to be placed at the foot of the intergovernmental squabbles over who has responsibility for what,” he said.

Galant said the population at Wingfield was split with about half interested in being reintegrated into the local communities but that conversation had not begun formally due to the delays at the departmental level.

 

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ngaso sonke isikhathi ukusola, ungalokothi uthathe isenzo.

I wonder how many babies have been born there knowing them

These people are comfortable in that situation it's far much better than life back at home . They must just tell their embassies to deal with our own people and give them a time frame

Saze salithwala idombolo

Where are the ambassadors of those countries? These people need to be repatriated to where they came from. ParliamentofRSA HomeAffairsSA

Send them bck home.

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