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Acknowledgements

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 children’s 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.