Home affairs dithers on migrant entry
Despite an ongoing influx of migrants into SA, the country’s refugee processing centres remain stubbornly closed for new asylum applications
07 April 2022 - 05:00
Contraband cigarettes briefly replaced people on the smuggling routes from Zimbabwe when SA went into its Covid-induced hard lockdown in March 2020.
Two years on, the business of trafficking people and cigarettes alike is better than ever, smugglers say...
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