South Africa: Home Affairs Mulls Relocating Refugee Centres

29 June 2011

Cape Town — The Department of Home Affairs is looking at relocating refugee centres closer to the country's borders where most refugees enter, the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Fatima Chohan, said today.

Chohan, briefing the National Assembly's portfolio committee on home affairs on the country's refugee centres, said it would be more practical to have refugee centres closer to borders because a provision in the amended Immigration Bill - currently before Parliament - held that asylum seekers entering the country had to apply for refugee status within five days.

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