Albert Mpazayabo hopes his thesis on integration of refugees in South Africa will be taken seriously by the authorities
Albert Mpazayabo, who fled to South Africa from his home in Rwanda, worked for years as a car guard. He has now graduated with a PhD in development studies. He hopes his work on the integration of refugees will be taken seriously by the authorities.
Since then he has graduated three times: with a Bachelor's degree in psychology, a Master's in 2014, and now his PhD at the University of the Western Cape. He got an asylum seeker permit in 1997 and a refugee permit in 2001. Though he has been in South Africa since 1997, Mpazayabo, 62, said he is still a refugee but is in the process of applying for permanent residency.
He says refugees in South Africa face the twin problems of poor practices in the Department of Home Affairs and a lack of well-defined and progressive policies on integration.
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