No shelter, no water: Refugees left to brave Durban's winter on the pavement.
For more than a month, dozens of refugees, including women cradling babies and young children wrapped in thin blankets, have allegedly been forced to sleep on the pavement outside the Department of Home Affairs offices on Che Guevara Road, enduring bitter winter nights after fleeing alleged xenophobic violence.
With nowhere else to turn, families say they have traded one danger for another, huddling together in the cold while waiting for assistance and hoping their pleas for protection will be heard.
Deborah Ewing of the South African Palestine Movement said the humanitarian crisis was worsening by the day as more displaced people continued arriving at the site.
"The situation is very precarious – more people have arrived in the past few days fleeing attacks from townships and suburbs," she said.
