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Original Post Date: 2007-08-13 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
South Africa on Sunday rejected calls to set up a refugee camp for the thousands of hungry Zimbabweans who daily flock into the country, saying that to do so would violate United Nations regulations.
“South Africa is a signatory to many UN conventions. We cannot impose a refugee status on people who do not want to be refugees. We will be doing that if we set up a refugee camp… and that will be against the UN regulation,” Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nquakula said in a televised interview.
She described most Zimbabweans who illegally enter the country as “economic migrants” who had no intention of settling but wanted only to buy food.
There are severe shortages in Zimbabwe following the economic meltdown there and a recent crackdown on prices, and media estimates suggest between 3 000 and 5 000 Zimbabweans cross the border into South Africa every day.
| ‘People who jump borders are economic migrants’ |
“These are people who still want to go back to their country. They are not asylum-seekers… Asylum-seekers do not jump borders, they know where to go to seek asylum. People who jump borders are economic migrants,” the minister said.
She was reacting to a call by another contributor to the television programme, Lounies Bosman, president of a South African agricultural body, Agric-SA, that a camp should be set up with the United Nations at the border.
Mapisa-Nquakula said the focus of the South African government and of the regional bloc SADC should be to tackle the root causes of Zimbabwe’s problems.
A summit of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) is taking place this week in the Zambian capital Lusaka and Zimbabwe is top on its agenda.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, mandated by the 11-nation SADC to mediate between Zimbabwe’s government and the opposition, is expected to present his report there.
| ‘We are in control of the situation’ |
“We are in control of the situation. Let us build partnerships with local and international bodies with the aim of dealing with the humanitarian problems of Zimbabweans,” Mapisa-Nquakula said.
She slammed the media for “peddling incorrect” figures about the number of Zimbabweans crossing the border, saying it was creating a “state of panic”.
“I believe that we must defuse the myth that millions of Zimbabweans are in South Africa,” she said.
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