The refugees’ leaders say they are ready for any judgment and would rather die than be moved.

The South African Police Service, Department of Home Affairs and Tshwane Metropolitan Authority say the residents demands are in some cases misdirected and are not practicable.

Judge Natvarlal Ranchod stood the matter down for a second day yesterday and urged the parties to reach an agreement on what can be achieved.

The refugees say their protest demanding the UNHCR move them to safe countries, away from xenophobic attacks in South Africa, will continue 

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The matter has been postponed until next Wednesday to allow the SA police service and Home Affairs Department time to file papers explaining why they can’t implement the  residents’ demands.

When the Pretoria High Court agreed to hear the case on an urgent basis last Tuesday, the police and Home Affairs agreed to abide by the outcome.

They found, however, that the residents’ bid to get tough with the refugees who’ve been camping  on the pavement outside the UNHCR for month  is not practicable.

Judge Natvarlal Ranchod as stood the matter down for a third time urging the parties to find agreement on effective action. 

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The refugees’ leaders say they are ready for any judgment and would rather die than be moved.

The South African Police Service, Department of Home Affairs and Tshwane Metropolitan Authority say the residents demands are in some cases misdirected and are not practicable.

Judge Natvarlal Ranchod stood the matter down for a second day yesterday and urged the parties to reach an agreement on what can be achieved.

The refugees say their protest demanding the UNHCR move them to safe countries, away from xenophobic attacks in South Africa, will continue 

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The matter has been postponed until next Wednesday to allow the SA police service and Home Affairs Department time to file papers explaining why they can’t implement the  residents’ demands.

When the Pretoria High Court agreed to hear the case on an urgent basis last Tuesday, the police and Home Affairs agreed to abide by the outcome.

They found, however, that the residents’ bid to get tough with the refugees who’ve been camping  on the pavement outside the UNHCR for month  is not practicable.

Judge Natvarlal Ranchod as stood the matter down for a third time urging the parties to find agreement on effective action. 

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Ten portals have been provided and they have pitched later tents on the pavements.

The residents associations of Brooklyn and Waterkloof are seeking a court order forcing the Tshwane Metropolitan authority, South African Police Service and Department of Home Affairs to move the refugees.

More than 600 mainly Congolese citizens are involved in the protest that has lasted more than three weeks.

Residents say the the refugees pose health and security risks.

The UNHCR says moving them is a complex matter that has to take its place with hundreds of thousands of other refugees in need of help around the world.

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Shocked by this killing, South Africans have learned that another five year old kidnapped outside Pretoria last week has been reunited with his parents – apparently unharmed.

Police commissioner of Gauteng – South Africa’s most populous province – Lesetja Mothiba’s appealing with residents of Reiger Park to let the law enforcement authorities do their job.

Debra Boards, the aunt of Taegrin Morris, says the hijackers who dragged the four-year-old trapped by his seatbelt after stealing the family car, must be made to suffer like her nephew.

Taegrin’s mother Chantal has identified one of the hijackers as a beggar who she regularly supplied with food and clothing.

She’s told police he was one of three men who approached them at gunpoint on Saturday and ordered her, her husband and her daughter to exit the car.

They drove off before they could free Taegrin.

Police say they’ve questioned a man but no arrests have been made.

They’re offering a fourteen thousand euro reward for information on the hijacking.

They’re offering half of that for information on the abduction outside Pretoria last week of five year old Mongezi Phike who was released after being held for four days.

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