Refugees adjust to life in a crowded tent amid concerns about Covid-19

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The refugees who occupied the Central Methodist Mission church in Cape Town have begun to settle in at their new home at Paint City in Bellville.

, after five months of occupation and protest.

Sandra Bahibitugu, originally from Burundi, is acting as the media liaison for the group. She said that when they arrived on Thursday the only direction they were given was for women to settle on one side of the tent, and men to settle on the other. The refugees slept on the mattresses and blankets that they had brought with them.

Bahibitugu had been given no person in government to contact in case of emergency. She said that an Immigration officer from the Department of Home Affairs had told her that officials from the Immigration department would be visiting the site “in two days time” to begin document verification. Bahibitugu said that some members of this group have lost their documents, while the documents of others had expired. She said that there was some anxiety in the group about this situation.

 

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They have to adjust or go home ..we don't care

We don't care

We have lots of problems to solve, government employees didn't get increase, corona is striking so bad, it ministers are stressed, pls send home with peace, we love them but not now

Send them back to their country

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