Refugee documentation underway : Home Affairs

The Home Affairs Department says the documentation of refugees taken to Lindela Repatriation Centre from the Glenanda temporary shelter, South of Johannesburg, has finally been undertaken after initial resistance. The Department's spokesperson Cleo Mosana says foreign nationals with asylum-seeker status have been allowed to leave. She has stressed that the possession of the proper documentation is essential and that the refugees have had to be made aware of this. Mosana says they had to call in stakeholders like the United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Ministers for Refugees to try to persuade the refugees and exercise the leniency that the Human Rights Commission is talking about. “They were in agreement of the way we were about to go with the administration process because people were worried we... [read full story]