The eThekwini municipality has revealed it was unprepared for the scale of the humanitarian operation at Durbans Drive-In transit camp, where about 9,000 undocumented migrants have been processed and transported to Musina in part by the municipality for repatriation.
Executive director for operations management Lindokuhle Mkhize said the municipality had been forced to rapidly convert the commercial events venue into a temporary holding facility as thousands of undocumented migrants, most of them Malawians, gathered while awaiting transport home.
I dont think we were necessarily ready for what has happened. Nobody saw it coming, Mkhize told journalists on Monday.
