while skilled workers move relatively unimpeded, those outside this elite category have limited access to migration opportunities, at least in the frameworks existing legal, policies and practices, particularly in South Africa. . There is therefore an urgent need to re-examine current migration policies in Africa, particularly with regard to how the human rights of migrants and asylum seekers are perceived. Globalization has increased the mobility of capital, information and goods, thus facilitating the non-liberalization of human mobility. Violent armed conflicts across much of Africa have had their share of increasing human mobility among those fleeing persecution. Historically, the apartheid regime relied, to varying degrees, on uneducated foreign labor to protect itself from black activists. The African National Congress has freed itself from this dependence by following a policy which gives priority to quality. This was very visible in the application of restrictive measures on the recruitment of foreign labor as part of the policy of internalization of 1974....