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Three months' rent or a ticket back home? Cape Town refugee, asylum seeker groups must decide news24.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news24.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
City of Cape Town looking for solution to refugee crisis news24.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news24.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Backlog Project provides hope for Cape Town refugees, asylum seekers The UNHCR made available R147-million to South Africa to establish the Backlog Project.(David Harrison/M&G) Several deserted tents, a few smouldering fires and a trampled field are a far cry from the constant traffic flow on Voortrekker Road in Cape Town that runs parallel with the Wingfield military base, which scores of refugees and asylum seekers called home for the past year. For some, their protest journey might have come full circle with the Backlog Project, funded by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). It is just over a year since two sites, Wingfield in Maitland and Paint City in Bellville, which were erected during the hard lockdown under the Covid-19 Disaster Management Act, became temporary shelter for more than 1 5o0 refugees and asylum seekers mostly from Africa. ....
Lack of action by Dr Dolittle on Immigration and porous borders results in another humanitarian crisis polity.org.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from polity.org.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
File/News24 Refugees scattered across the Cape Town CBD since October 2019 were relocated to either the Bellville Paint City site or the Wingfield military base. They had fled their homes citing fears of xenophobia. In October, the Department of Home Affairs told the committee it was formulating an exit strategy, but the state of disaster has had a significant impact on its plan. Several times the committee has requested that all spheres of government come up with a solution. The Department of Home Affairs says it is in discussion with neighbouring countries over repatriation efforts to handle the refugee crisis arising from those people who occupied Greenmarket Square and the Central Methodist church. ....