Home Affairs reopens refugee office closed in 2011
23 October 2018
The Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office was officially reopened on Friday by Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba.
The province has been without such a facility since the Department of Home Affairs unilaterally closed it in 2011, according to a GroundUp report.
Following years of legal action, public outcry and civil society activism, the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the department in March 2015 to reopen the facility by July 1, 2015.
Years after that court deadline, the facility has at last reopened at new premises in Sydenham.