SA has a new home affairs minister, but refugees, migrants doubt ...

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Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber. (X/Leon Schreiber)

Some refugees, migrants and asylum seekers have little hope that anything will change under new Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday night announced his much-anticipated Cabinet, but refugees and migrants living in South Africa say they doubt change will ever come.

Olowale Okoro, 38, a Nigerian living in Sea Point, Cape Town, said foreign nationals who entered the country with fake identities ruined everything for people who had the correct papers.

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