A huge bag of chicken and bunches of spinach were being prepared for hundreds of foreign nationals still camping out at the UN High Commission for Refugees’ offices in Cape Town’s CBD on Monday in the hopes of being evacuated from SA amid safety fears.
A toddler wailed as his mother stirred a pot of mielie meal at the entrance to St George’s Arcade, which is off one of the cobbled walkways parallel to Adderley Street. The scene was juxtaposed against the announcement by mayor Dan Plato on Monday that Cape Town was voted as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
They are relying on friends to have somewhere to wash and use the toilet, and some business people have taken small collections and presented it to the women in the group to purchase food.But the refugee agency made it clear last week that group settlement was not an option; that it was not taking names for relocation; and there were no buses or planes coming to evacuate refugees and asylum seekers from SA.
The refugee agency said it was working with the South African government to find solutions as quickly as possible, adding the groups did not represent all refugees in SA.
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