Posted to the web 18 July 2008 Francis Hweshe and Luleka Damane A legal expert from the UCT Law Clinic has raised serious safety concerns over the decision by the Department of Home Affairs to ask refugees to travel to Nyanga to apply for asylum papers. The department announced on Thursday that, as from next week, asylum seekers from southern Africa would have to go to its Nyanga office for their documentation. It said its Barrack Street office in the city centre would now cater for asylum seekers from the rest of Africa. "We are completely disillusioned," said Fatima Khan, senior attorney of the Refugee Rights Project at UCT. Given that refugees would have to travel by taxi to Nyanga, their lives would be in danger as the "Nyanga taxi rank was extremely volatile". She said that last month, in light of the recent xenophobic...
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