@panafricanaffairs: A long queue formed outside the Department of Home Affairs Refugee Reception Centre on Che Guevara Road in Durban on 7 October 2026, with more than a hundred asylum seekers reported to be waiting to access the asylum application process. The scene comes amid significant changes to South Africa’s asylum system. Following a Constitutional Court ruling in July, Home Affairs issued a directive instructing Refugee Reception Offices to receive people who report in person and indicate that they want to apply for asylum, including people whose circumstances previously prevented them from accessing the process. The Durban centre has been a focal point of migration-related tensions in recent months. Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers had previously spent months around the site after being displaced from communities in Durban, with some later relocated to the Lindela Repatriation Centre. On 6 October, tensions escalated when protesters opposed to undocumented immigration disrupted access to the Durban centre as people waited to apply for protection. This footage was recorded the following day and shows the scale of the queue outside the centre. There are no interviews or narration in the video — just the scene as it unfolded on Che Guevara Road. What do you make of the situation in Durban? #southafricatiktok🇿🇦 #marchandmarch #tiktoksouthafrica #durbantiktok #cyrilramaphosa

Mosia Neo Desmond :

Funny how the system is not offline but if it were South Africans they were gonna cut the lines telling them about the system😢

makgabo28 :

RAMAPHOSA IS EVIL

Magivo :

Why only men.. where are the women and children?

DeCo🌟🦋🌞🍀🌼 :

Why only man..what happened to the woman and kids..

. :

I trust KZN, pls help

MissBu👑❤️ :

so they didn't go 30th June and 30th September yoh

Lindani Nameka :

Start a political party sir we will vote for you

HerRoyalMajesty :

All home affairs must be shut down.

cbu11 :

our kids are in trouble. 💔

Lunga_Maphalala :

Ramaphosa hates us😭😭😭😭

Joyce Matlala :

Why is it mostly men?

Welcome Nkosi97 :

This is sad to witness 😭😭😭😭😭

nathi.g72 :

uGoverment akasithandi.

Dj Fabio 😎 :

This is why us south Africans suffer with service delivery!!! ANC must fall DA must fall

G_RAW_CODM :

This country will burn becoz of a stupid president

Dima :

we are bleeding in side

Mpho_maphonki :

The youth of 1976 vs youth of Tik Tok. Protesting on Tik tok and ending there

Lebohang Koahela :

anc we voting out of power

nailsbyNicole Braam :

They want to be documented kanti what’s wrong with that

Dada-Babe 🌈 :

these people are so unbothered

OG :

Kwaze kwabuhlungu ukubona izwe lethu limuka 🥺

Olona :

Hlangana Zulu!

Thabiso Malokasi :

uSenzo :

Is this line going to that home affairs?

Pamela Ngcobo :

iyakwatisa lento eyenziwa u Government 😓😭