Private sector, NGO asked to assist displaced nationals
Premier Senzo Mchunu is calling on the private sector and non-profit organisations to assist the more than 100 displaced foreign nationals who are now living in a children's shelter in Durban.
The group, including 68 children have been at the shelter for a week, after leaving Hope Camp on a Cato Ridge farm.
Farming couple, Andrew and Rae Wartnaby had taken the nationals in after being displaced during last year's xenophobic attacks.
Mchunu's spokesperson Ndabezitha Sibiya says other provincial government departments are assisting.
"What is important at the moment is to ensure that there is provision of quality healthcare to the kids that are there and also to attend to their education needs because the majority of these kids are not going to school. We want to ensure that there's decent meals provided to them," he said.
Sibiya says they're in consultation with the UN to find a permanent solution for the families.
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