Home Affairs incompetent, ignorant – DA

ee crisis and c) why the department has been so virulently against the DA’s calls for transit or refugee camps, if that is what it had planned all along?” said spokesman Mark Lowe, MP, at the weekend.
“This all smells of incompetence and ignorance within a dysfunctional department led by an invisible minister. Clearly, had the department’s spokesperson Cleo Mosana known about this plan, she would have referred to it. In fact it would appear that the Minister does not even know about the plan because she has so far rejected all DA calls for camps to be set up for the refugees by incorrectly interpreting the Refugees Act (1998),” said Lowe.
“The truth is that government has never known what to do about the Zimbabwean crises that have hit the country with frightening regularity since 2000. Their stance has been to do nothing, and until recently this worked because the overflow of the crises into South African was manageable. Now government must act.
“But Home Affairs is still behaving like a headless chicken. For the ANC to actually admit that there is a refugee problem is to admit that President Mbeki’s “silent diplomacy” Zimbabwe policy has been a failure. And to have the courage to cross Mbeki is to face the same fate as the erstwhile deputy minister of Health,” he said.