By Daniel Itai.
South Africa. (News of The South) – Refugees living in the Central Methodist Mission on Greenmarket Square in the centre of Cape Town have refused to accept any humanitarian aid from civic organizations.
The refugees are demanding to be evacuated from South Africa citing opprobrious attitudes that are being exerted by a majority of South Africans towards them as a reason for wanting to leave.
Food, medicinal stuff and toiletries are amongst some of the things that the 250 refugees are in need of.
On Wednesday South African humanitarian organizatin Gift of the Givers, decided to prepare food for the refugees which they refused.
Jean-Pierre Balous one of the refugee leaders said, “Gift of the Givers’ food is prisoners’ food. The kind of press release their director gave, we are very doubtful about this food. He is not with us. He is turning against us. We are no longer going to use or take any food from Gift of the Givers.
We are surviving. We came from war countries. We couldn’t get food and we survived. This is nothing compared to that.
South Africans can pretend to love our children, but they have been denied birth certificates. We don’t have Muslims here. We don’t have Christians here. We have refugees, and no one is going to separate us.
We are very certain that a generous country will still want refugees. There is no way they can accept people from Syria, and not accept people who are in danger here in South Africa.”
Meanwhile, an Ethiopian refugee Alem Ereselo, who is currently residing in Johannesburg has been denied lifesaving dialysis on the basis that she is a refugee.
Jessica Lawrence an attorney with Lawyers for Human Rights who is representing Ereselo said, “all the public facilities she has approached have denied her treatment and therefore she has not been on dialysis for two weeks now.”
Lawrence has now embarked on a humanitarian aid campaign where she is calling upon members of the public to assist Ereselo with her dialysis treatment in the private health care system.
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