The De Doorns xenophobia victims would remain camped out on a sports field in the town for the weekend, the SA Human Rights Commission's Western Cape manager said.
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Talks were continuing over the reintegration of the foreigners into the local community, Leonardo Goosen said.
A task team was trying to talk to as many roleplayers as possible, and would meet community leaders on Monday, he said.
Meanwhile, the Western Cape government has rejected claims it does not care about the 3000-odd refugees.
Premier Helen Zille's spokesman Robert Macdonald said refugee rights group People Against Suffering, Suppression, Oppression and Poverty (Passop) was wrong to claim safety MEC Lennit Max had not been to De Doorns.
"He was in De Doorns on Tuesday, as soon as the xenophobic violence was reported to him, and liaised with the SAPS [SA Police Service], local government and community representatives."
He also said Zille would be arriving in De Doorns this afternoon from Beaufort West.
Passop said earlier Zille and her MECs had not apologised to the refugees for the pain they had suffered.
"Provincial government... is concerned only for some miraculous reintegration in order to avoid further embarrassment," it said in a statement.
Neither Max, who had "kept busy addressing numerous media outlets", nor Zille had visited the site, it claimed.
The foreigners, mostly Zimbabweans, evacuated shacks in De Doorns today following confrontations with local residents, who claimed they were robbing them of jobs on farms.
Most of them have since been given emergency shelter in marquees on a local sportsfield.
Passop said it was "alarmed and insulted" by reported comments by De Doorns mayor Charles Ntsomi that authorities were "considering" reintegrating the refugees into the community as soon as possible.
"No community forcefully displaced can possibly reintegrate successfully in such a short time without a proper process for healing, counselling, and negotiations," Passop said.
It also said the Freedom Front Plus's (FFPlus) "xenophobic statements" on the issue were an attempt to gain political mileage.
FFPlus home affairs spokesman Corné Mulder said in a statement on Wednesday the xenophobia was "due to the government's actions" and poor border control.
A trade union for women on farms, Sikhula Sonke, said in a statement today that it "strongly condemns" the situation in De Doorns.
It felt the local farm workers' frustration was aimed at the wrong people.
"Government's failure to alleviate poverty, regulate labour brokers, protect the agriculture economy... are some of the main reasons for the situation in De Doorns," the union said.
Source : http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/article201538.ece
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