South Africa: Police Fire Rubber Bullets in City Centre

27 November 2014

A man was injured when police fired rubber bullets at a crowd of about a thousand asylum seekers earlier today at the Home Affairs Temporary Refugee Centre on Cape Town's foreshore. Witnesses say that a nine-month-old baby was also injured.

Eye witness Francois N'siku Vovelo says that he went to Home Affairs three weeks ago to renew his asylum papers. However, his papers were only renewed until today (27 November), instead of the usual three or six months. Upon arriving at Home Affairs at about 9am today, he found hundreds of other people in the same situation. It appears most of the people affected had applied for asylum at refugee centres in other provinces.

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