Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/parliamentary-portfolio-committee/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 24 Oct 2019 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 Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/parliamentary-portfolio-committee/ 32 32 Local residents start legal proceedings against refugees campaign outside UNHCR offices in Pretoria https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/local-residents-start-legal-proceedings-against-refugees-campaign-outside-unhcr-offices-in-pretoria/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/local-residents-start-legal-proceedings-against-refugees-campaign-outside-unhcr-offices-in-pretoria/ Residents groups in Brooklyn and Waterkloof are going to court to move hundreds of people camped outside the Pretoria offices of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees. Local residents are being asked to contribute to the legal costs. Papers are expected to be served today on the mainly Congolese refugees engaged in the sit-in. […]

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]]> Residents groups in Brooklyn and Waterkloof are going to court to move hundreds of people camped outside the Pretoria offices of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees.

Local residents are being asked to contribute to the legal costs.

Papers are expected to be served today on the mainly Congolese refugees engaged in the sit-in.

This will give them time to respond before the urgent action in the Pretoria High Court next week.

The refugees are demanding to be moved to safety away from the xenopbobic attacks  they have suffered in South Africa.

Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told a Parliamentary portfolio committee meeting this week that the sit-in outside the UNHCR offices in Cape Town and Pretoria are a matter for the South African Police Services.

   

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