GROUNDUP: SA’s new refugee regulations could have been drafted by Trump, says activist By Tania Broughton
South Africa’s new rules governing asylum seekers and refugees could easily have been drafted by the Trump administration, says Sharon Ekambaram of Lawyers for Human Rights .
They will be compelled to get a “refugee” visa at the point of entry to South Africa – which is largely up to the whim of the immigration officials on duty. They will also be banned from certain jobs in certain industries. She says these “regressive” policies will further exacerbate chronic processing delays and show that South Africa is “dismantling its international obligation to provide protection to asylum seekers and refugees”.In our submissions to Parliament on the proposed amendments in 2016, LHR pointed out a number of concerns regarding the amendment to the principal Act which has now been passed into law.
The rest of the new rules, “presented as measures to prevent fraud”, “could easily have been drafted and enforced by the Trump administration or the Boris Johnson administration”, Ekambaram says.But the problem does not lie with people seeking refuge in our country but with the unlawful practices of immigration officials who are informed by prejudice, xenophobia, and instances of homophobia against foreign nationals, the majority of whom come from the African continent.
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