World Cup could lead to migrant influx
(by Sapa-AP) Thursday 23 July 2009
South Africa is taking steps to make sure soccer fans go home when the 2010 Fifa World Cup is over.
South Africa has an estimated 3 million to 5 million undocumented African immigrants, according to the SA Institute of Race Relations. Now some are predicting that eased entry procedures for the tournament will make things worse.
Darshan Vigneswaran, a migration expert at Wits University, said migrants would keep coming because entry was easy enough by paying a bribe at the border.
The government is working on ways to balance welcoming the fans and making this an event for the whole continent, without compromising borders.
South Africa is spending nearly R1.1 billion to streamline entry for the games. It is the first World Cup host to offer an "event visa" for visitors from countries lacking visa-free arrangements with the host government. They will have to show a match ticket, an address while in South Africa and a return ticket home.
Immigration officials will run spot checks on the addresses and deport overstayers. But finding them could be difficult - it should be easy for them to melt in among the illegal immigrants already here.
On the xenophobic violence of last year, Vigneswaran said: "That powder keg is still there. In a year of economic downturn, as very wealthy people celebrate (the World Cup), there will be people being killed in townships for being foreigners."
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