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Gigaba must explain why refugee centres have not been opened: DA

Source: Timeslive, 05/06/2018

The Democratic Alliance (DA) will request that Home Affairs Minister
Malusi Gigaba be summoned to Parliament to explain why the Cape Town
and Port Elizabeth refugee reception offices have not been reopened.
It said refugees did not use Port Elizabeth or Cape Town as their ports
of entry.
The DA said it would write to the chairperson of the Home Affairs
Portfolio Committeeâ€š Lemias Mashileâ€š to request that Gigaba be summoned
to account for why these reception centres had not been reopened.
â€œClearlyâ€š the failure by Minister Gigaba to obey the courts is
compromising the ability of the Department to ensure asylum
applications are processed and finalised efficientlyâ€šâ€ DA shadow
minister of home affairs Haniff Hoosen said.

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