[ANALYSIS] Battling for asylum in South Africa
"When I first arrived in South Africa I thought 'finally!'," said another Congolese asylum-seeker Esther Kabinga.
"Currently there is a 99 percent rejection rate," human rights lawyer Jessica Lawrence told AFP, adding that thousands were stuck in limbo.Despite the backlog, South Africa has reduced the capacity of some of its refugee application offices."The quality of the decision-making is shocking." That paper needs to be renewed every three to six months -- a process that can take up to three weeks.
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