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Foreign nationals plead not to be moved by the City of Cape Town officials on 2 March 2020. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

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Reintegrate into SA society or return home - Motsoaledi on foreign nationals

By Babalo Ndenze

Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi was referring to the foreign nationals in Pretoria and Cape Town who want to be resettled in a third country because of...

  • FILE: Foreign nationals in their makeshift shelters outside the Central Methodist Mission Church in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News.

    No safe place to call home: Refugees in limbo as CoCT set to enforce by-laws

    With hopes of finding a safer place to live fading, the foreign nationals living at a church in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town have nowhere to go as the City of Cape Town prepares to enforce its by-laws and remove them.

    896 days ago
  • FILE: Refugees living in Cape Town spent the night at the Central Methodist Mission Church after clashes with police during their removal from the UNHCR's offices on 30 October 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN.

    HRC, Home Affairs & UNHCR to hold meeting to resolve refugee crisis in CT

    Hundreds of refugee took refuge in the Central Methodist Mission Church off Green Market Square in October.

    945 days ago
  • Hundreds of foreigners protest in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town on 18 December 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    ‘We are not safe in SA’: Foreign nationals say they’re living in fear

    On Wednesday, hundreds of refugees demonstrated in the Cape Town CBD to highlight concerns for their safety.

    963 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals were camping outside the UN Refugee Agency and asked for help to leave South Africa. Police clashed with the group on 30 October 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN.

    EXPLAINER: Why foreign nationals can’t just leave SA

    The world marks International Migrants Day on 18 December. Eyewitness News unpacks the reason why a group of foreign nationals urgently wants to leave the country and the challenges they face trying to do so.

    963 days ago
  • Hundreds of foreigners protest in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town on 18 December 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    Foreign nationals demand action from UNHRC to help them leave SA

    Hundreds of refugees protested in Cape Town today, to raise a number of concerns including safety, infringement of their rights and to also show support for those who had been illegally arrested and were in prison.

    963 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates Court on 18 November 2019 over clashes with the police, which saw 24 officers being injured. Picture: EWN

    SA officials verifying refugee status of foreign nationals arrested at UN office

    More than 180 refugees arrested following clashes with police outside the offices of the United Nations Human Rights Agency in the Pretoria have been remanded in custody until their next court appearances.

    993 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates Court on 18 November 2019 over clashes with the police, which saw 24 officers being injured. Picture: EWN

    Refugees chant 'no more South Africa' as case postponed

    They were arrested last week for trespassing after they allegedly tried to force their way back into the UNHCR offices where police were carrying out a court order to remove them.

    993 days ago
  • Refugees living in Cape Town spent the night at the Central Methodist Mission Church after clashes with police during their removal from the UNHCR's offices on 30 October 2019. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN

    Unifam urges police to arrest those behind attacks at church sheltering refugees

    Members of the Western Cape Refugees and Migrants Forum, the SA Human Rights Commission's Chris Nissen and Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba were attacked last week while attempting to address the foreign nationals at the church.

    993 days ago
  • Refugees and foreign nationals outside the UN Refugee Agency building in Brooklyn, Pretoria where they have been removed from the area by police on 15 November 2019. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/EWN

    Foreign nationals arrested in Pretoria to appear in court

    On Friday, police forcibly removed foreigners from the parking lot of the UN Refugee Agency following numerous complains from residents in the surrounding areas.

    994 days ago
  • FILE: The foreign nationals, among them refugees, had been staging a sit-in at the Methodist Church in the Cape Town CBD and demanding they be helped to leave South Africa. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    Wantaway foreign nationals eye Namibia as possible destination

    Foreign nationals who had sought shelter at a Cape Town church were adamant they would continue fighting to leave South Africa due to xenophobia.

    994 days ago
  • Refugees and foreign nationals outside the UN Refugee Agency building in Brooklyn, Pretoria where they have been removed from the area by police on 15 November 2019. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/EWN

    Foreign nationals plot next move after removals in Pretoria, Cape Town

    The foreign nationals and refugees want to be relocated to other countries, saying they were not safe in South Africa due to xenophobic attacks.

    996 days ago
  • Refugees have occupied the UNCHR building in Pretoria to demand that they are assisted to leave the country following recent attacks on foreign nationals. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN.

    Foreign nationals resist police removal in Pretoria, scuffle at CT church

    The Human Rights Commission's Chris Nissen has told EWN, there has been a scuffle inside a church where hundreds of refugees have been living in Cape Town.

    996 days ago
  • Foreign nationals are seen at the Greenmarket Square in the Cape Town CBD on 5 November 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    Foreign nationals vow to continue fight to leave SA without Gift of the Givers

    Foreigners told the organisation to go because Gift of the Givers director Badr Kazi stated their demand to be relocated to another country en masse was 'unrealistic'.

    1003 days ago
  • Foreign nationals are seen at the Greenmarket Square in the Cape Town CBD on 5 November 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    Church appeals to govt to help assist foreign nationals in CT

    Hundreds are living in a chapel off Greenmarket Square in the CBD after police forcibly removed them from outside the UN Refugee Agency offices almost a week ago.

    1005 days ago
  • Refugees living in Cape Town spent the night at the Central Methodist Mission Church after clashes with police during their removal from the UNHCR's offices on 30 October 2019. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN

    Foreign nationals removed from UNHCR office spend night in a CT church

    They had camped outside the offices for weeks, demanding the UN help them leave South Africa as they feared falling victim to xenophobic violence.

    1011 days ago
  • Police forcefully removed protesting foreign nationals in the Cape Town CBD on 30 October 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN.

    Police crackdown on foreign nationals sees chaos in CT

    Police fired rubber bullets and targeted water cannons at a second group of refugees and foreign nationals in the Green Market Square.

    1012 days ago
  • Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN.

    SAHRC: No children missing, no deaths after foreigners removed from UN office

    The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said it was assessing the situation outside the UN Refugee Centre in Cape Town after police moved in to disperse a group of foreign nationals sitting-in at the centre.

    1012 days ago
  • Police remove foreign nationals on 30 October 2019 who were camping outside the UN Refugee Agency asking for help to leave South Africa. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    Police urged to use restraint as they remove foreigners from CT UN office

    Police fired rubber bullets and sprayed water cannons at protesters when they refused to move. Some were dragged on the floor while others were caught while trying to escape.

    1012 days ago
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