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R233-million spent on buses for fleeing immigrants

About 100,000 people have left South Africa since June

A mother and child boarded a bus arranged by the Malawian government in June 2026 in Hermanus. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has spent R341-million on the repatriation and deportation of foreign nationals since June 2026. Almost 70% of this was spent on buses for immigrants fleeing xenophobic violence and a campaign by anti-immigrant group March and March.
About 100,000 foreign nationals have left South Africa, mostly at Beitbridge in Musina, Parliament’s Home Affairs portfolio committee heard on Tuesday. About 90,000 people were voluntarily repatriated between May and August, and 10,000 deported between April and July, according to Zamachonco Chonco, chief financial officer (CFO) of the Border Management Authority.
Most of those repatriated crossed Beitbridge…

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