Home Affairs fought the matter all the way to the Supreme Court of Appeal, losing every court round, until it was finally denied leave to appeal by the Constitutional Court. capetown
He tried to apply in February online, but never received a response.
GroundUp heard reports from the LRC that online applicants did not receive replies, in spite of follow-up emails, because there was such a backlog. Pascal was assisting his sister, a refugee from Burundi. She is a nurse, but her life is at a standstill because she cannot complete the studies she needs to meet South African requirements as she is not fully documented.
GroundUp visited the Gqeberha reception office earlier this week and met a Zimbabwean who had arrived at 5am to find 30 people already ahead of him.‘I don’t think I will come back again, because there is no hope that I will be served given the total number of people they take per day,’ he said. ‘This new system is taking us back to the years when refugee reception centres were congested by applicants resulting in chaos and corruption. Some centres were turned into crime havens as criminals targeted asylum seekers who slept outside,’ the official said.
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