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The Department of Home Affairs
Home Affairs Minister Doctor Leon Schreiber says none of the 153 Palestinian travellers who landed at the OR Tambo International Airport last month requested asylum in South Africa.
Al Jama-ah MP, Imraan Ismail-Moosa, asked Schreiber about his intervention, and he responded in a written parliamentary reply.
On the 13th of last month, 153 Palestinians landed in Johannesburg.
Only 23 of them had the required documentation and confirmed accommodation, as the Immigration Act stipulates.
The rest could initially not be processed.
Schreiber says he had engaged with the Border Management Authority on admitting the passengers on humanitarian grounds under the care of Gift of the Givers.
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