Greenmarket Square refugee sit-in
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The Greenmarket Square refugee sit-in was a sit-in protest by a group of refugees for the purpose of getting relocated to a country outside of South Africa in response to xenophobia in the country. It lasted from 8 October 2019 when protestors first occupide the Waldorf Arcade to 2 April 2020 when the last group of protestors were evicted from the Central Methodist Mission church. The protestors demanded that UNHCR assist them with being relocated to a third country outside of South Africa and other than their country of origin. At its height the protest grew to include about 624 protestors, including 65 undocumented refugees, according to a lawyer for the South African Department of Home Affairs.
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Greenmarket Square refugee sit-in
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Protestors outside the entrance to the Cape Town Central Methodist Church during the Greenmarket Square refugee sit-in. A police RG-12 Nyala can be seen blocking the entrance to the church following an altercation between two factions of protestors in late December 2019.
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*Settlement to a third country
*Xenophobia in South Africa
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--10-08
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Participants
* Jean-Pierre Balous
* Papy Sukami
* 250 - 624 total protestors
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*Xenophobic riots in Johannesburg
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*UNHCR
*South African Police Service
*City of Cape Town
*South African government
*Department of Home Affairs
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South African based foreign asylum seekers and refugees
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forcibly relocated
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Greenmarket Square refugee sit-in
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The Greenmarket Square refugee sit-in was a sit-in protest by a group of refugees for the purpose of getting relocated to a country outside of South Africa in response to xenophobia in the country. It lasted from 8 October 2019 when protestors first occupide the Waldorf Arcade to 2 April 2020 when the last group of protestors were evicted from the Central Methodist Mission church. The protestors demanded that UNHCR assist them with being relocated to a third country outside of South Africa and other than their country of origin. At its height the protest grew to include about 624 protestors, including 65 undocumented refugees, according to a lawyer for the South African Department of Home Affairs.
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