Despite the advice of the UN and aid agencies, South Africa is reported to be planning to set up refugee camps to protect thousands of migrant workers fleeing xenophobic violence.
The South African government was thought to have rejected refugee camps as illegal, with ministers arguing that, under the country's constitution and international law, refugees must be integrated rather than locked up.
The BBC says plans for camps holding up 70,000 people will be announced later today. The South African government denies they are "refugee camps", however, preferring the term "temporary shelters".
The premier of the Western Cape, Ebrahim Rasool, appears to be against the plan. He spoke out to the Cape Argus against "mega-refugee camps". There are more than 18,000 "displaced people" in Cape Town, the paper reports. Rasool wants those in community centres to stay where they are until they can be reintegrated into the suburbs.
The UNHCR has set out why it is opposing the camps.
Meanwhile, Winnie Mandela has taken a Congolese family into her home until they can find a permanent place to stay.
Blogger Pierre de Vos takes a wider view. He writes: "The only way to deal with the matter is to find a regional solution, and this would have to include a solution of some sort of the Zimbabwean crisis. Sadly, our government has helped - directly or indirectly - to prop up the person mainly to blame for the economic meltdown in Zimbabwe, so this solution never materialised."
