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This report was researched and written by Nobuntu Mbelle, consultant
in the Africa division of Human Rights Watch. Additional research and writing
was provided by Erin Patrick, consultant to the Africa division. It was edited
and reviewed by Georgette Gagnon, deputy director of the Africa division; Diane
Goodman, former director of refugee policy; Ophelia Field, former acting
director of refugee policy; Bill Frelick, director of refugee policy, and Tony
Tate, researcher in the childrens rights division. Wilder Tayler, legal and
policy director, and Iain Levine, program director also reviewed the report.
Lizzie Parsons and Nicholas Galletti, associates in the Africa division,
assisted in the production of the report. Human Rights Watch acknowledges the
assistance of Professor J Klaaren of the University of Witwatersrand for
reviewing the legal sections.
Human Rights Watch is grateful to Ford Foundation for
funding its work in South Africa, and to the Lawyers for Human Rights, Wits Law
Clinic, Jesuit Refugee Services in Johannesburg, and, above all, the refugees
and asylum seekers interviewed in this report.