The 90 detainees are among 110 people held by police at abandoned mining sites in the Namakwa district.
The apex court has reversed amendments to the act that made it difficult for refugees to apply for asylum while making it easy for Home Affairs officials to unjustly detain and deport them.
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Malawian immigrants come in the hope of finding jobs – but if they don’t have the proper papers, they face arrest, detention and repatriation.
Home affairs has been left to figure out what to do with the hundreds of foreign nationals arrested in last week’s crackdown on illegal migrants.
Following numerous reports of abuse, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has asked the organisation to establish an office at the centre.
Reports of violations at the repatriation centre for detained illegal immigrants have grabbed the attention of human rights organisations.
The M&G went undercover at the Lindela Repatriation Centre for illegal immigrants to see if some of the detainees would share their grievances.
Foreign detainees being held at Lindela Repatriation Centre say guards got violent to end their passive protest against conditions in the facility.
The Human Rights Commission may succeed in improving conditions at the repatriation centre where illegal immigrants are held pending deportation.
The paper that really counts is that in your wallet, say former inmates of the Lindela Repatriation Centre in Krugersdorp.
Lawyers for Human Rights says home affairs officials should be held personally responsible for the department’s failure to implement court orders.
Refugees at the Klerksoord camp in Akasia, north of Pretoria, started to leave the camp on Monday afternoon.
Two hundred foreign nationals who had a traffic-violations case against them withdrawn have been detained at the Lindela repatriation centre.
Heavy-handed tactics and poor communication with refugees have led to the latest crisis.
Refugees outside the Lindela detention centre have refused to move to any shelters after a discussion with the South African Human Rights Commission.
A human rights group calls for refugees removed from a Johannesburg camp on Tuesday not to be deported.
Trucks were taking foreigners from the Glenanda refugee camp in Johannesburg to deportation centres on Tuesday afternoon.