A group of refugee learners, camping outside the United Nations offices in Brooklyn, Pretoria, say no one will stop them from acquiring education.
They are part of a group that fled their countries with their families due to socio-economic and political tensions.
The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has recently ruled that the refugees mostly from the DRC, Burundi, South Sudan, and Kenya camping outside the United Nations’ offices be evicted and sent to Lindela Refugee Centre for the purpose of deportation back to their countries of origin. “Our situation here is very, very bad. It’s just hard. We are on the streets. We are teaching each other some maths. If we don’t do it ourselves, I don’t see anybody volunteering to teach us.”
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