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/ 7 September 2008
While relocation of refugees from xenophobic attacks in Cape Town continue, a Somali man disappears after going swimming in False Bay.
The Gauteng government was on Friday deciding whether and where to consolidate shelters in line with a Constitutional Court order.
Mediation was mooted in the Constitutional Court on Monday as a possible solution to the dispute over temporary refugee shelters in Gauteng.
NGOs used their wait for Friday’s court ruling on shelters for displaced xenophobia refugees to lobby people on what sort of help they needed.
The Gauteng government says it will wait for a Constitutional Court ruling before it starts breaking down shelters for xenophobia refugees.
The Gauteng government confirmed that the temporary shelters established for the fugitives in the province areas are to be closed this Friday.
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.
A Pretoria High Court judge on Tuesday dismissed an urgent application to keep temporary refugee shelters open for the time being.
There is ”no need” for court action to force the Gauteng provincial government to keep open temporary safe sites for refugees.
The Treatment Action Campaign has slammed ”government inaction” on deteriorating living conditions in camps for displaced foreign nationals.
Heavy-handed tactics and poor communication with refugees have led to the latest crisis.
Trucks were taking foreigners from the Glenanda refugee camp in Johannesburg to deportation centres on Tuesday afternoon.
Residents of a Gauteng camp for refugees from xenophobic violence risk being thrown out of the country if they don’t register for temporary ID cards.
An apparent hostage situation at a refugee camp in Johannesburg highlights troubling situations in these camps, established after xenophobic violence.
Refugees want to tell Ebrahim Rasool that they are terrified of being forced to reintegrate, despite camps being scheduled to close on July 23.
”Inhuman conditions” forced the Institute for Islamic Services to stop its relief work in refugee camps in Pretoria last week.
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.
Volunteer psychologists in Cape Town speak of a sense of profound hopelessness among foreigners. Men came forward for therapy more readily than women.
Cape Town documentary film-maker Isalee Jacobson was not impressed with the reintegration of immigrants in Khayelitsha.
A woman sitting on a basket quietly stirs a pan of spinach on a paraffin stove. Children run around noisily between plastic bags, suitcases, blankets and mattresses.