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Video on Refugees in Cape Town: "I am.. refugees trying to legalise themselves" The Voice of the Cape: "PASSOP Takes Immigrant Issues to SAHRC" 07/22/2008 [permanent dead link ] PASSOP Press Statement: Zimbabwe Elections 04/10/2008; PASSOP Press Statement: Somalian Victimization 03/19/2008; PASSOP Press Conference 06/10/2008
An asylum transit visa issued at a port of entry will be valid for a period of 5 days to enable the holder to report at a nearest Refugee Reception Office. Cross-border and transit permits have been repealed. Persons who overstay for a prescribed number of times will be declared as undesirable - fines will no longer be charged for overstaying.
The sit-in started when around 250 protestors [8] encamped outside the Cape Town offices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on 8 October 2019, [6] a month after the xenophobic motivated 2019 Johannesburg riots took place.
A report by the country's Public Service Commission found that the Department of Home Affairs accounted for 22 of the 260 financial misconduct cases for national departments in 2008/9.
In 2008, xenophobic riots against immigrants broke out in the Western Cape province, displacing some 20,000 foreign nationals. The Somali community's insular nature reportedly helped protect it from the worst of the violence. However, many Somali-owned stores and supermarkets were destroyed and looted. [2]
Refugee breaker Manizha Talash, or “b-girl Talash,” was disqualified from the first ever Olympic breaking competition on Friday after she wore a cape that said “Free Afghan Women" during her ...
In office 15 February 2013 – 31 May 2018: Appointed by: Jacob Zuma: Division: Western Cape: Personal details; Born 19 June 1958 (age 66) Athlone, Cape Town Cape Province, Union of South Africa: Alma mater: University of South Africa University of Cape Town Harvard Law School (LLM)
Anti-xenophobia walk on Mandela Day 2010, Cape Town. In late May 2009, reports emerged regarding a possible resurgence of xenophobic related activity and the organising of attacks in the Western Cape. Reports of threats and secret meetings by local businessmen surfaced in Gugulethu, Khayelitsha and Philippi, Cape Town.