SA can't force refugees on other countries, says Home Affairs dept
14 November 2019
South Africa cannot force any country to accept refugees and asylum seekers, Deputy Home Affairs Minister Njabulo Nzuza said in Cape Town on Thursday.
This was as tensions rise among two groups of foreign nationals demanding evacuation from South Africa.
"South Africa cannot impose on Canada that there are refugees who want to be moved to Canada," said Nzuza as a group of foreign nationals holding a sit-in in Pretoria scaled the walls of the United Nations' refugee agency the UNHCR.
The incident came after a court order on Wednesday that they move from campsites they set up in Brooklyn and Waterkloof near the UNHCR, within three days. They now face trespassing charges.