Home Affairs finally pays R100,000 prize money to anti-xenophobic group
The Department of Home Affairs has paid the Khulumani Support Group R100‚000 in prize money for use by the Grahamstown Foreign Shop Owners’ Dialogue Platform‚ following a lengthy battle about the correct winner of the 2015 Mkhaya Migrant Award‚ the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) said on Thursday. The prize money was paid to Khulumani on Wednesday‚ the LRC said. The Mkhaya Migrant Awards were launched in 2015 by the minister of home affairs in an effort to address xenophobic violence against foreign migrants in SA and honour the valuable work done by the migrant community. Khulumani Support Group nominated Mbulelo Lipile‚ the founder of the Grahamstown Foreign Shop Owners’ Dialogue Platform‚ in the category Most Integrated Community. The nomination was motivated by Lipile’s efforts to secure a peaceful co-existence between local and foreign shop owners‚ based on civic agreements forged among all role-players and witnessed by local South African Police Service (SAPS) officers‚ said the ...
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