backlog Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/backlog/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 backlog Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/backlog/ 32 32 Lawyers for Human Rights lambastes Home Affairs on World Refugee Day https://jjcornish.com/2018/06/lawyers-for-human-rights-lambastes-home-affairs-on-world-refugee-day/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/06/lawyers-for-human-rights-lambastes-home-affairs-on-world-refugee-day/ On World Refugee Day, Lawyers For Human Rights has told President Cyril Ramaphosa that South Africa’s using detention and deportation as inhumane tools to manage migration. The watchdog’s open letter to the President says Home Affairs is in crisis, operating in flagrant disregard of constitutional values, cripplingly inefficient and poorly managed, with reports of widespread […]

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]]> On World Refugee Day, Lawyers For Human Rights has told President Cyril Ramaphosa that South Africa’s using detention and deportation as inhumane tools to manage migration.

The watchdog’s open letter to the President says Home Affairs is in crisis, operating in flagrant disregard of constitutional values, cripplingly inefficient and poorly managed, with reports of widespread bribery and corruption. 

Lawyers for Human Rights says South Africa has the longest backlog in the world for dealing with hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers that have come here. 96% of asylum applications are rejected

The organization says asylum seekers are  subject to police corruption and routine, systematic physical abuse.

It says Home Affairs in not transparent and does not have a complaints  mechanism.

Only Africans are arrested, says LHR, pointing out that there are no white people held at the Lindela repatriation facility.

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