S’Africa slams 5-yr travel ban on 268 Nigerian returnees over illegal stay

… Says all 268 were undocumented By Nkiruka Nnorom
South African government has slammed a five-year travel ban on the 268 Nigerians cleared for repatriation after declaring them illegal residents.
The Department of Home Affairs said shortly before their departure from OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday that all 268 would be declared “undesirable” and barred from re-entering the country for five years under the Immigration Act.
Head of Immigration Enforcement, Stephen van Neel, confirmed the development as buses conveyed the group to the airport for a chartered flight scheduled to depart after midnight.
Speaking to a local channel -Newzroom Afrika – at the airport, he sai...