But it still has to be paid for and sites developed, unless you're happy with a piece of veld where settlers can do their thing - hooray for them if they do. You seem to think there's little to no cost involved. 
About 5000 migrants arrive in Cape Town a month, poor and seeking jobs and social services, most from the EC where it does not exist or failed. The city/province has long complained it's importing other province's problems and needs more national funds but the ANC wants to 'punish' the DA and leaves allocations unchanged. (Gauteng has similar problems, though.) No city anywhere, incl in the developing world, can accommodate migration like this and the consequent demands for jobs and services. But you think it can be so easily achieved here. How, where and with what resources when there are other equally important demands. I admire NGOs and activists like the writers, and sometimes court judgements, for their passion and idealism but often it's unrealistic and misdirected.

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