A transitional government raises many alarm bells. It will inevitably include a group of thieves who earn their money through black-market trade and misuse their position to financially benefit themselves.
To all Zimbabweans seeking refuge in South Africa – the talks will not make your applications for refugee status invalid.
The risk for people, who have fled for asylum purposes, still remains and the government of South Africa will have to respect that. No one wants to return until things are safe, jobs are created and it is actually possible to survive. Until then we will fight for the right to live in South Africa.
This week it was decided that Zimbabweans wanting to apply for refugee status in Cape Town must wait outside the Nyanga Refugee Reception Centre instead of the Barracks Street Office. We are completely against this. There were xenophobic attacks in Nyanga and it is the murder capital of South Africa. Nyanga simply is not safe.
We held a peaceful sit-in after calling the head of the Cape Town Refugee Reception Centre, Richard Sikekani, 15 times with no response.
Cape Town PASSOP will have much to fight against in the next few weeks, this time we will pursue legal action. We will also be lobbying against the closure of the shelters that house the remaining victims of xenophobia, across the country.
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