Moz refugees want SA residency
2007-03-20 18:36
Maputo - Former Mozambican refugees living in Limpopo are claiming the rights of South African citizens, Vista News reported on Tuesday.
The independent Mozambican weekly O Pais said in its online edition on Tuesday that the claim by the former refugees was in line with the "promise made by the South African government at the end of the (Mozambican) civil war in 1992".
The newspaper said the former refugees made the formal complaint to the Mozambican ambassador to South Africa, Fernando Fazenda, during his visit on Sunday.
Among their claimants was to have their children registered as South African nationals.
More than 500 former Mozambican refugees who now live in Malamulele district, near Phalaborwa, after fleeing the civil war between 1984 and 1992.
They said this would solve the problem of deportations to Mozambique that their children regularly face.
Mozambique's civil war that began in 1975 ended in 1992 with the signing of the Rome Peace Accord.
- SAPA