KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli has raised a concern that the Malawian government is failing to provide enough buses for the repatriation of its citizens.
Thousands of displaced Malawian nationals in Durban are being processed to return to their country.
The Malawian government has called for urgent donations to support the repatriation of at least 10 000 Malawians.
Ntuli says more buses are still needed.
He says, “We are worried with the number of buses that are provided by the Malawi government that they are not enough. They understand that the numbers are big here, but they leave it to us to have the stress of addressing this problem instead of providing the number of the buses that will solve the problem within a wink of an eye.”
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MIGRATION
The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has proposed a three-pronged national framework for managing and responding to migration in South Africa.
This comes against the backdrop of ongoing anti-illegal immigration protests directed at foreign nationals.
The organisation says while it rejects unlawful migration, no person or group should act outside the ambit of the law.
It is also called on African states to do a thorough introspection.
The MJC’s Faizal Sayed says the ongoing migration issue requires the state to improve its immigration systems and strengthen borders.
Sayed says, “The issue of legality requiring and asking the state to tighten up its migration systems, to strengthen its border management and eradicate corruption, so that these immigration processes, policies and systems can be tightened up.”
He says, “The second one is, as South Africans we must know that we must embrace dignity, equality and everybody within our border is subject to that in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in particular.”
-Reporting by Kholofelo Teffo and Andile Mbanjwa.
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