“The issue of deportation will only kick in and apply to those who were here in the country legally,” government spokesperson Themba Maseko told reporters in Pretoria after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday.
Some displaced immigrants who have legal documentation are reluctant to return to their former communities and will have to find alternative accommodation.
“Government once again calls on communities, community organisations, religious formations and civil society in general to work with (refugees) to ensure their reintegration into communities,” Maseko said.
Foreign nationals were displaced from their communities when a violent wave of xenophobic attacks broke out in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township of the poor before spreading across the country in May.
 ZimOnline
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