MUSINA - Processing of foreign nationals is continuing at the Musina repatriation centre in Limpopo.
More buses are expected to arrive to ease the growing backlog.
Thousands of Zimbabwean and Malawian nationals are waiting to return home following anti-undocumented migration protests.
Speaking from Musina, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Department of Home Affairs Provincial Manager, Cyril Mncwabe, said they are processing people arriving in buses from different provinces.
“We are busy processing people as they arrive. Most of them come from different provinces and are being brought here as an official repatriation centre.
“From this particular centre we have done the Mozambicans and we are currently doing the Zimbabweans as well as the Malawians.
“Those are the predominant countries that we are busy trying to assist here and if you can look at the statistics of yesterday, we have processed about 2168 people who are on the site here.
“We hope that today the volumes would actually pick up, because the issue was around the buses that are supposed to be taking them out of the country, but we are going to have quite a number of buses today. We're expecting not less than 50 buses to be on this site and the processing still continues inside.
Meanwhile, a number of migrants are still stranded in Durban.
The group is camping outside the Greyville Mosque in Mariannhill.
This is where foreign nationals have now been going after fleeing their homes following anti-undocumented migration protests.
While groups vow to continue protesting, those stranded in Durban say they fear for their lives.
They said they haven’t been able to stay in their houses since 30 June.