Ms Rosemary Kunene:

I will discuss the process of the interview. It was recommended that there should be a single application process, but I am not sure if it is being applied. I had to apply again for the single procedure process in 2016. I received a refusal, which I then had to appeal. That was refused and I had to go to the High Court, which said that my case should be heard again. I went for my interview two months ago, but I am still waiting. My experience there was dehumanising. They stopped looking at why I had come here to seek asylum and went into my personal life. When I explained something, they told me that I was lying. It was dehumanising.

If I am going for an interview, the tribunal members should be more knowledgeable about what is going on in my country. They kept pressurising me and saying that I had been a refugee in Swaziland because I had a travel document. That is how it is in our country, though. We have travel documents that we use in the southern part of Africa. There is more to be done in respect of the tribunal members.

It is mental torture for someone to keep on repeating what he or she has gone through. When someone asks me why I am in the country, I do not say anymore because I am tired of crying. I cannot keep on saying what happened to me. For how long would I be saying that? I need to move on. It is dehumanising to make someone sit there and do that. This is not a story - it is something that we are going through. A mother tells people what her children are going through, but the response is "You are lying." How can one lie about one's children suffering?