Namibian government wary of refugees fleeing 'xenophobic violence'

'When we listened to the rumblings, there was even a preference of countries like Canada, which they want to go to.'

Deputy minister of home affairs Njabulo Nzuza told parliament on Tuesday that the Namibian government had said it would be unhappy if its South African counterparts policed people to their border.

In recent days, the refugees and asylum seekers - who have been camping at the UN's High Commission for Refugees offices in Cape Town and Pretoria while demanding to be taken to safer countries abroad - have threatened to walk to Namibia. The two groups have spent weeks at a sit-in at the UNHCR offices before moving to a church less than a kilometre away in central Cape Town, and to the Lindela Repatriation Centre in Gauteng.

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