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The process of reintegrating foreigners into their communities has already begun, Tshwane Mayor Gwen Ramokgopa says. 

Authorities have agreed to hold back on the closure of camps still housing foreigners in Cape Town, the Aids Law Project says.
Some foreign nationals at the now dismantled Klerksoord temporary shelter north of Pretoria are refusing to leave the area, say Pretoria police.
The Home Affairs Department has been threatened with legal action over an apparent refusal to renew asylum seeker permits.
Foreigners displaced by the xenophobic attacks in May still face a serious threat as the last remaining camps are closed, says Amnesty International.
Hundreds of foreigners at the Kerksoord shelter outside Pretoria are seeking answers after a truckload of "Red Ant" agents removed their tents.
Remaining temporary shelters for victims of xenophobia have been closed in Gauteng.
The Gauteng provincial government has closed down the refugee shelter in Glenanda, and is in the process of closing shelters in Boksburg and Rand Airport.
Two of the remaining shelters for displaced foreigners in Gauteng will close this week, despite them saying that they have no money or place to live.
South Africa alone cannot deal with xenophobia and a policy change is needed to tackle the issue, the SA Human Rights Commission says.
The United Nations will be asked to probe the way its South African office has been dealing with the xenophobia crisis, the Aids Law Project says.
The Constitutional Court will hear further arguments on the fate of Gauteng's shelters for people displaced by xenophobic violence.
The next stage of the Constitutional Court application to confirm the way the Gauteng government handles the closure of refugee camps has hit a snag.
The Western Cape provincial government has completed its process of relocating thousands of displaced people from other countries into three temporary shelters.
The transfer of Cape Town's scattered xenophobia refugees to two centralised "safe sites" has started, authorities say.
Experts have criticised what they called South Africa's lack of a migration policy on Africans, saying it was a major reason for the xenophobia attacks.
About 3 300 displaced foreigners scattered across various sites in Cape Town are to be consolidated into three shelters.
An illegal refugee camp which was established by churches and NGOs in Musina has been dismantled, the municipality says.
Xenophobia victims say they would fear for their lives if they had to return to the communities from which they had fled.














