The eThekwini Municipality says it cannot guarantee that all Malawian nationals gathered outside Durban’s Old Drive repatriation site will be transported to Musina by Monday midnight.
This as more people continue to arrive despite the facility having been closed.
The municipality is assisting the Department of Home Affairs with the transfer of migrants to Musina in Limpopo, ahead of Tuesday’s deadline by some movements calling for undocumented foreign nationals to leave the country.
The municipality’s COO Lindo Mkhize says 58 buses transported migrants overnight, with additional buses expected on Monday.
“That is the quantification that we still just have to count of how many people were brought in because there are number of people that were brought in yesterday, I think about 9, 7 versus the number we have on our calculation. We still have 60 or 70 more buses that are still to come and take the individuals but as I said our challenge now is the luggage that is taking more space than the people, but we are trying to alleviate by a truck to take that luggage and allow people in the buses.”
June 30 | Thousands of Malawians await official clearance to return home
Credit: Gcino Malinga
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