We offer renewals to any migrant who has lost documents, it happens quite often. Even these ones in Cape Town who did a sit in at the office of the United Nation High Commissioner for refugees, when they clashed with police and ran to the church, we offered them that those who have lost documents must come forward.
On Monday the Reverend Chris Nissen who is the Commissioner of the South African Human Rights Commission called a meeting between Home Affairs, the commission the refugee and their leaders, Department of Social Development and many others to discuss this issue and in that meeting the refugees clearly said they've want nothing to do with the Department of Home Affairs. What they are looking for is not documentation but is to be taken out of this country because they say this is a terrible country.
The commission told them that they can't. As I'm speaking now this morning, the head of the regional office of the United Nations High Commission is there, he was talking to them about an hour ago he told me that they told him that all they want is to leave South Africa.
He told them that there are three conditions in which they will be taken out, they can't be taken out as a group but as individuals; each one of them must apply and the country that is going to accept them must accept them as individuals according to their profiles and he said the number of countries that accept refugees around the world for relocation because it's a big problem, only one 1% of people who want to be relocated get relocated.
That's what the commissioner said and he gave them an easy option which is to integrate back into South Africa and we as Home Affairs said we are prepare to integrate them but they said no, there is no way they will stay in South Africa.
The commissioner offered them that we will take them to their countries of origin, we joined him and said Home
Affairs will also help them to go to their countries of origin they said they will never go there. They don't want to go there, they don't want to stay in South Africa and the only thing they want is to be taken to another country. They don't mention in publicly but in corridors they say they want to go to Canada and nothing more, nothing less.