SWAZI STUDENTS SLEEP ON COLD MALL FLOOR FOR SA STUDY PERMITS

MBABANE – When you desperately want something, you do everything in your power to get it.

For Swazi students who want South Africa study permits, they have been forced to brave the past cold and rainy days and spend nights sleeping on the floor at the New Mall.

This has been the situation since last week as the students sought to get services from the South African High Commission offices.
The need to spend the night on the mall’s floor has been caused by the fact that the office not only closes at 10am but there had been more frustration following that it services around 50 students per day.

Those who are not part of the first 50 are turned back and told to return the following day.
In order to be part of the 50 the next day, the students, some of whom are accompanied by their parents, bring their blankets and sleep on the floor at the New mall entrance.

They arrive from as early as around lunchtime to camp for the following day.
Some days have seen the queue becoming longer starting from the main entrance past Fuji Film up to the left corner of the Old Mutual Offices.

The desperate students cannot seek refuge inside the high commission offices situated upstairs as they are not allowed to camp there.
More frustration has been caused by the fact that some of the students have found themselves having to spend the night sleeping on the floor more than once after they were ordered to fetch missing documents.

When a student fails to provide all the required supporting documents, they are told to go back and fetch them.
However, when they return, they do not get the privilege of bypassing the queue, instead they have to start afresh and be the last in line.
“I was here on Tuesday but was turned back as I was not carrying a medical report.

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