Nationalist pro-South African hashtags spread hate online
South Africa has a fatal history of violence against foreign nationals, particularly other Africans. In May 2008, 62 people died as a result of...
The Social Dilemma: The technology that connects us also controls us
The Social Dilemma is a Netflix documentary-drama hybrid that shows how dominant and largely unregulated social media companies manipulate users by harvesting personal data,...
The fight against sexism and GBV must include migrant, refugee women
By Terri Maggott
On August 2 2019, numerous reports of violent femicides sent shockwaves through the nation. In the same week, the news of brutal...
Africa Day: Exploitation ‘Driving’ Xenophobia in Cape Town
Escalating xenophobia in South Africa is tarnishing its "Rainbow Nation''. But over the past year, the spotlight has increasingly shifted focus to Cape Town...
Tariro Ndoro’s Poems Speak About Unbelonging
Tariro Ndoro’s debut poetry collection tackles issues of identity and xenophobia. She turned her creative writing master's degree thesis into a book. The Daily Vox...
Why Refugees In Cape Town Want To Leave South Africa
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The video of a baby being ripped from the mother’s arms by police officers in Cape Town horrified and disturbed most people...
How An Asylum Seeker Becomes A Refugee In South Africa
A video of a child being torn away from the arms of a woman did its rounds on social media on Wednesday. The disturbing...
African Countries Demand Accountability For South African Xenophobia
South Africa has been gripped by xenophobic violence in the past years. For the past ten years or so, there have been repeated acts...
Xenophobic Attacks Return In Durban
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During the March/April xenophobic attacks in Durban, a group of Congolese men in Philani, uMlazi Y section were attacked, allegedly because that...
Durban: Xenophobic Attacks On Malawian People
Walking into Sherwood play plot, two huge erected white tents welcome you. Despair, uncertainty, and confusion is written all over the faces of the...
Xenophobia In Durban: Malawian Nationals Want To Return Home
Last week, about 150 Malawian nationals in Durban were displaced following attacks by locals in Burnwood Road, Sydenham. The distraught families say they lost...
Claim That Zama Zamas Pose Threat To JHB Is “Xenophobic” –...
The City of Johannesburg is on the brink of impending doom. Well, that is according to a Sunday Times report from November 25. Quoting...
A Johannesburg, Migration Love Letter
I Want To Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa's Great Metropolis is a collection of 13 narrations that looks...
“Poverty Contributes To Divisions With African Migrants”
After having witnessed an upsurge in xenophobic attacks in 2015, an Eritrean former shopkeeper and now a PhD candidate in the school of Applied...
Master Storytelling From Lesley Nneka Arimah
Love, death, magic, reality, immigration and the diaspora, Lesley Nneka Arimah's book What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky has it...
Anti-migrant Sentiment Fuelling Durban Evictions, Abahlali Claim
Abahlali baseMjondolo on Monday returned to the Durban High Court to apply for another court interdict against eThekwini Municipality. This was following the city's...
Asylum Seekers At The Durban Refugee Reception Centre Tell Of Their...
Almost everyday, Moore Road is packed with hundreds of refugees of different nationalities who desperately stand in long queues and some sit on pavements...
The Holocaust and Genocide Centre Remembers The 2008 Xenophobic Attacks
It's been 10 years since the 2008 xenophobic attacks that took place throughout the country, claiming the lives of 60 people and injuring hundreds....
NORBA: Government To blame For Local Xenophobic Tensions
The Northern Businesses Associations (NORBA) has blamed the ongoing tensions between local and foreign nationals shopkeepers on the government. This, following a meeting was...
Joburg’s Mayor Stays Being Xenophobic, This Time In Rwanda
This past week, the City of Johannesburg executive mayor Herman Mashaba was in Kigali, Rwanda to attend a panel at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's...
