The other violence: While South Africa watched the marches, the state built a camp
We are watching a de facto refugee camp form under our noses, assembled not by the chaos of mobs but by the order of officials with stamps and clipboards and the quiet confidence of those who know that no one is watching. There is a hidden humanitarian crisis unfolding at South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe. […] The post The other violence: While South Africa watched the marches, the state built a camp appeared first on The Namibian .
We are watching a de facto refugee camp form under our noses, assembled not by the chaos of mobs but by the order of officials with stamps and clipboards and the quiet confidence of those who know that no one is watching.
There is a hidden humanitarian crisis unfolding at South Africa’s border with Zimbabwe. Fifteen kilometres outside Musina, on farmland previously used by the Department of Agriculture, the government has built what it calls a “temporary repatriation processing centre (TRPC)”. It is a camp.
