South Africa: Rethinking asylum

A queue of Southern Africans stretches down the street outside Crown Mines Asylum Determination Centre in Johannesburg.

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"It is within our minister's [South African Home Affairs Minister Mapisa-Nqakula] powers to declare groups of people as refugees for a period of time," said Florencia Belvedere, office manager of the Johannesburg Asylum Determination Centre. "This would assist us in processing the large numbers of southern Africans, who are mostly Zimbabweans, approaching our centre."

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