1. Both the Human Rights Commission and Lawyers for Human Rights participated in the work of the White paper for Refugee Affairs Task Team appointed by the Minister of Home Affairs.


  2. 22nd Plenary of the South African Human Rights Commission (18 & 19 February 1998).


  3. Funding for the services of the last three-mentioned persons as well as for the running costs of the investigative stages of the investigation was provided by the European Union Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa through a grant to the Centre of Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. This financial assistance is gratefully acknowledged. James Schneider worked as a consultant for the Refugee Rights Project of Lawyers for Human Rights from March 1998 to February 1999. The views expressed in this report do not necessarily represent the official view of the European Union Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa.


  4. However, in the course of the investigation, a visit was made to Johannesburg Central Prison. Nonetheless, since persons arrested with a view towards deportation were no longer detained there, no interviews were conducted.


  5. A copy of the standard interview form is provided in Appendix B along with the supervisor's interviewing guidelines. Student interviewers were provided with a copy of the short list of ten interviewing points.


  6. A copy of the language identification form is reproduced in Appendix B.


  7. For instance, in one case an individual claiming to be a South African citizen was classified by Home Affairs as a Mozambican and was scheduled to be removed to Mozambique on a Wednesday. The project was able to contact his family who brought his identification document and secured his release prior to his scheduled removal from the country. See infra note 30 and see Leon Ntshingila, infra, interview #142 (22/05/98), Appendix A.


  8. This is fully set out in a letter to the Department of Home Affairs and a response from the Department both reprinted as Appendix H.


  9. An updated version of this working paper is published as Appendix C.


  10. Minutes of that workshop are in Appendix G.