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African expats seek passage out of SA

Publish date: 14 October 2019
Issue Number: 845
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Corruption

African immigrants last week descended on the UN High Commission for Refugees' (UNHCR) office in Cape Town, trying to convince officials that they need safe passage out of SA. ‘The xenophobia has become so bad. We can't live our lives,’ said a Tanzanian woman, cradling a baby. ‘Now we have to go home.’ A SowetanLIVE report notes that Burundian national Nahimana Mohammed said his was ‘a life of suffering’. ‘In the township where we are living (Samora Machel), they are burning down my business, threatening my sister who lives alone with her four children.’ Neither Home Affairs nor the UNHCR has responded to requests for comment.

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