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A digital divide troubles refugees tor remains documented in South Africa, a report has recently confirmed. Apparently, there is a new online system meant to help register and apply for renewals. But the system is working against the refugees and asylum seekers. They feel the system runs the risk of deportation and harassment. It’s a known fact that undocumented refugees have a tough time of basic rights guaranteed under the labor law. Currently, the government faces a backlog of refugee applications in South Africa. Many refugees struggle to use new online permit renewal system. Undocumented refugees lose access to bank accounts, their children and extended family have issues completing their education too. Suddenly, you become undocumented and that creates a sense of shame too. The new online system that went live in April 2021 was supposed to be a lifeline for refugees and asylum seekers who had not been able to renew their permits since refugee reception centres closed...

When Luan Mayen developed a video game from his ordeal in a South Sudanese refugee camp, he has given the world a lot to learn.... The South Sudanese refugee youth who has brought hope from the dead  Luan Mayen was like any other refugee who wouldn’t see any kind of hope of survival has done something completely magnificent. He is all of 25 years who has developed a video game that in inspired from his struggle while in a refugee camp. He learned coding while in a refugee camp after fleeing South Sudan. The boy is full of hope. Speaking to media agencies he said, “A lot of people don’t understand the journey of a refugee.” Mayen spent his first 22 years in a refugee camp in northern Uganda before moving to the United States. Mayen shared horrors of war, of living in refugee camps, of how young babies were abandoned by parents who couldn’t care for them anymore and were fending for their lives.  Mayen has developed a game which gives gamers a view into li...