Thank you, Deputy Speaker. Minister, I have information from highly credible sources that a number of asylum seekers have already been turned away from our borders on the grounds that South Africa is not the first safe country they have reached. This is, as you know, entirely contrary to the dictates of the United Nation's Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. This is also, of course, a serious infringement of the human rights of refugees by a country that prides itself on its commitment to human rights.
Would the Minister provide an undertaking that the practice of turning refugees away at our borders on the basis of the first safe country principle will cease forthwith, and what will she do to ensure that this does not recur until such time as we do have the necessary agreements in place? Thank you, Deputy Speaker.