"The cost of this Bosasa looting has been paid by immigrants detained in inhumane and undignified conditions at Lindela", the DA says.

SA desperately needs to address the health risks posed by overcrowded detention centres and migrant deportation processes, a rights group says.

A lack of a ”legitimate elected leadership” was behind much of the xenophobic attacks, the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in SA said on Monday.

Mediation was mooted in the Constitutional Court on Monday as a possible solution to the dispute over temporary refugee shelters in Gauteng.

The Constitutional Court is expected to issue directions ”very soon” on the fate of people living in camps for refugees from xenophobic violence.

The Gauteng provincial government on Wednesday denied removing people ahead of deadline from the camps it set up for refugees from xenophobic attacks.

A consortium for refugees and the Wits Law Clinic have vowed to approach the Constitutional Court to keep Gauteng’s refugee shelters open.

There is ”no need” for court action to force the Gauteng provincial government to keep open temporary safe sites for refugees.

Let this be a turning point where together we recognise and transcend the limits of citizenship by extending protection to all who live in South Africa.