Migrants in South Africa Claim Rights Abuses

About eighty asylum seekers in the Western Cape have launched a complaint with the South African Rights Commission against the government over allegations of human rights abuses.

A group migrants from Zimbabwe (file photo): The Chairperson of the SAHRC has approached the Department of Home Affairs to bring this matter to their attention.

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