Success Stories
Stella Mkiliwane honoured for her contribution.
More than 400 people came and showed their support for the Women’s Refugee Commission at the 2011 Voices of Courage Awards Luncheon. This year’s theme was urban refugees, and our refugee honorees, Zrinka Bralo and Stella Mkiliwane, moved the audi... Read More
RMC's Asylum Access Monitoring Acitivities
After persistent informal monitoring of the Department of Home Affairs' Refugee Reception Offices of Johannesburg and Pretoria, from 2004 - Refugee Ministries Centre and the Department of Home Affairs (Refugee Affairs) finally reached an agre... Read More
RMC Language Interpretation and Translation Services
Through RMC language interpretation programme, locals and foreign nationals work together to assist refugees and asylum seekers from non-English speaking countries, to apply for asylum or access any other services at the Refugee Reception offic... Read More
RMC's role during the 2008 Xenophobic Attacks
During the xenophobic attacks of May 2008, RMC partnered with Ekurhuleni Poverty Alleviation and the Metropolitan to reintergrate the displaced foreign nationals sheltered at the Rand Airport.RMC played a leading role in negotiating long term soluti... Read More
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Refugee Ministries Centre was founded in 2004 as an Ecumenical Ministry to Refugees by the Methodist Churches of Southern Africa and St Mary’s Anglican Cathedral in Johannesburg, to respond to the post 1994 influx of refugees into South Africa, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Pakistan, Algeria, Kashmir and Zimbabwe.
