The UN High Commission for Refugees yesterday said that it would help Makana municipality reintegrate displaced foreigners into their community and help them regain possession of their shops in Grahamstown. Speaking at a stakeholders' meeting at Grahamstown City Hall, the head of the commission's field office, Patrick Kawuma Male, said that although the UN would be able to help financially only the 108 foreigners who qualified as asylum seekers or refugees it would also try to help hundreds of other displaced foreigners to return to their homes and shops."We pledge to work with the municipality and civil society and the host communities to promote social cohesion," Kawuma Male said.He said the UNHCR would "establish a presence" in the city and help find lasting solutions to the problem.He said the 108 refugees and asylum seekers who qualified for UNHCR assistance would be given R1000 a month with which to pay rent and food worth R500 a month for the next two months."We do not have all the solutions. If others can [also] help that would be very welcome."Kawuma Male said the UNHCR was responding to an appeal for help from Makana municipality.He said the commission would contribute to finding solutions but would not be able to provide the capital some of the foreigners had asked for to restock their shops and repair the damage done to them.Makana community services director Mandisi Planga told the meeting yesterday that the cash-strapped local authority, which is under provincial administration, was not able to provide start-up capital or cash for renovating vandalised shops.He said that, as of tomorrow, the council would not be able to pay for the accommodation of dispossessed foreigners at a "safe house" on the outskirts of the city and that the foreigners living there would have to find somewhere else to live.Hundreds of foreigners were driven out of Grahamstown on October 21 hours after taxi groups claimed at a City Hall protest that foreigners were killing and mutilating township people for body parts.Although the police said there was no truth to the rumours, the looting continued into the next day and hundreds of foreigners moved to the safe house outside town, where many of them were still living yesterday.Fears were raised by displaced foreigners and their wives at yesterday's meeting that some township residents were still "angry" and did not want them to return.They said they feared for their safety and that threats that their shops would again be looted had been made.Mayor Nomhla Gaga said the city had been "working tirelessly" since the looting in October to reintegrate the displaced foreigners into the community.She said most Makana communities wanted the foreigners back. She blamed the xenophobic threats on criminals.Kawuma Male said stakeholders should look for solutions instead of trying to blame each other for their problems.He urged everyone to "work through the pain" and find peaceful ways to resolve the conflict...