A protest by Zimbabwean refugees at the home affairs office in Durban on Friday ended in a ”constructive” meeting with department officials.
Zimbabwean refugees sorting out asylum papers were allegedly assaulted by home affairs officials, the MDC said on Friday in Durban.
Somalis fleeing war and hunger at home are pouring into neighbouring Kenya at an average rate of 7 000 a month, the UN said on Thursday.
Some xenophobia refugees in Cape Town cheated the United Nations of relief funds last year, according to an affidavit filed in court.
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis refugees in Kenya suffer extortion and abuse by corrupt and violent police, a human rights watchdog said on Monday.
Some lie splayed on the stairs while others sleep in a neat row outside a church in Johannesburg from where refugees will soon have to relocate again.
The registration of Zimbabwean refugees living at the Central Methodist Church has been completed, Gauteng local government said on Wednesday.
Zimbabwean refugees staying at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg will be moved, according to Gauteng’s local government minister.
An application to have foreigners moved from the Johannesburg city centre has been postponed indefinitely in the High Court in Johannesburg on Friday.
Preventing the transportation of refugees from Musina to Johannesburg was likely to ignite xenophobic attacks, the UNHCR said on Thursday.