PRESS STATEMENT - Refugees residing at the Wingfield Refugee Tent and Paint City in Kensington and Bellville, Cape Town, are facing a renewed wave of state-backed Afrophobia and brutality. This is not just a legal injustice. It is a moral disgrace.

The Ntirhisano Community Centre (NCC) strongly condemns the councillor of Ward 56, Chesyln Steenberg for his deliberate, xenophobic targeting of the residents of the Wingfield Refugee Camp.

Soweto, South Africa — On Saturday, March 29, 2025, about 20 residents of Elias Motsoaledi gathered at the corner of Kokwane and Ingwe Streets to officially revive the Motsoaledi Concerned Residents (MCR) — a grassroots community movement initially founded in 2005. The meeting took place outside Mr. Mboweni’s Spaza Shop and marked a powerful call for unity, urgent youth support, and infrastructural development.