Refugees
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June the 20th is designated by the United Nations (UN) to honour refugees around the globe but for those living in the Mother City, they claim that government doesn’t care about them.
Western sources said Russian forces were consolidating their positions but Ukrainian forces were showing no sign of stopping resistance and were hitting back with counterattacks.
In all, 874,026 people have fled across the country's borders, according to the website of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.
Refugees from Congo, Syria, Afghanistan and Iran, the women are being trained by GlobalGirl Media, an organisation teaching digital media and journalism skills to young women from under-served communities.
While we celebrate the progress we have made towards building a peaceful and prosperous continent, events in faraway North Africa show that we still have a long way to go, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Hundreds of foreign nationals have for over a year been accommodated temporarily in tents in Bellville and Wingfield - this is after they had participated in a sit-in outside the UN Refugee Agency in October 2019 demanding to leave the country.
The government has given them two options - either repatriate or reintegrate into communities.
The interior ministry instructed the UN refugee agency to develop a plan within 14 days for shuttering the decades-old settlements of Kakuma, in Kenya's remote northwest, and Dadaab in its far east near the border of Somalia.
The refugees have been temporarily sheltered at the Wingfield Military Base and Paint City since the start of the lockdown.
It’s been about 12 weeks since about 800 refugees began living in a massive tent in Goodwood for the duration of the lockdown, and they say that things are difficult.
The special COVID-19 grant is open to South African citizens, refugee status holders and permanent residents only.
The organisation said government had been biased in its COVID-19 food aid programmes, claiming it was overlooking foreign nationals.
The organisation said it received numerous pleas from the foreign nationals, who included LGBT people who fled their countries escaping persecution.
The men, women, and children have been camping in the city since October after they were removed from outside the UN Refugee Agency offices where they were demanding assistance to leave the country due to xenophobia.
Refugee leader Papy Sukami, who appeared in court on Friday on robbery and assault charges, said they didn’t want to be deported and still wanted to be resettled.
She was among the foreign nationals who were forced away from Greenmarket Square on Sunday.
The group of asylum-seekers moved to the St Mary's Cathedral after they were forced away from outside the Central Methodist Church in Greenmarket Square on Sunday morning.
The city enforced an interim court order granted by the Western Cape High Court against the group, which had been camping outside the Central Methodist Church in Greenmarket Square since October last year.