Subscribe & Follow

Advertise your job vacancies

South Africa: Constitutional Court may decide fate of safety camps

Johannesburg: An interim order by South Africa's Constitutional Court could keep temporary shelters open for the foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence earlier this year - or it could leave more than 4,000 camp residents out on the street.

18 Sep 2008

Victims of xenophobia © Guy Oliver/IRIN

Civil society has called for the camps to remain open until government publishes a detailed reintegration plan, and is hoping an interim court order will delay closure, set for the beginning of October by Gauteng provincial government.