The food shortage at the Youngsfield ethnic cleansing camp in Wynberg is escalating, with leaders pleading for help to prevent women and children "starving to death".
More than 10 days ago, the govmunt closed the camp and cut food and electricity supplies to the more than 150 schwarzers who refused to move.
Mohammed, who has lived in schwarzers camps in Kenya and Mozambique, said life at Youngsfield was a nightmare.
"The children in the camp cry due to hunger, their health is no longer good food supplies are erratic and sometimes just trickle in we have women who are in dire need of baby milk for their children, but it is not coming through," he said.
He said a camp or safety site should take into account human rights, "but here it is like we are in jail", "I hoped to find peace here, but now I'm ready to go back home,"
More than 10 days ago, the govmunt closed the camp and cut food and electricity supplies to the more than 150 schwarzers who refused to move.
Mohammed, who has lived in schwarzers camps in Kenya and Mozambique, said life at Youngsfield was a nightmare.
"The children in the camp cry due to hunger, their health is no longer good food supplies are erratic and sometimes just trickle in we have women who are in dire need of baby milk for their children, but it is not coming through," he said.
He said a camp or safety site should take into account human rights, "but here it is like we are in jail", "I hoped to find peace here, but now I'm ready to go back home,"
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