A Malawian national has spent four days at the Musina temporary repatriation centre in Limpopo waiting for his luggage to arrive from the Malawian embassy in Gauteng.
The man said he and others left their bags at the embassy in Sandton before boarding a bus. Officials told them the luggage would follow in a separate bus.
“Now four days have passed,” he said. “My clothes, I left them in Sandton, there. They told me, ‘You go. I’ll send your clothes with another bus’.”
He added that when the bus arrived at the centre he asked the driver about the luggage, but the driver said he knew nothing and suggested calling Sandton.
Limpopo Premier Doctor Phophi Ramathuba separately stated that some South Africans housing undocumented migrants is worsening the province’s immigration issues. The comments came during a police operation in Seshego, Polokwane, where over 330 undocumented immigrants were arrested in the Capricorn district.
