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    Xenophobia

    Why Navi Pillay can help us solve our xenophobia problems

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    Lawyer Navi Pillay is set to head up a provincial commission set up by the KZN premier Senzo Mchunu to investigate the recent spate...

    Gigaba faces jail time over stateless man

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    On Tuesday, Times Live reported that Home Affairs minister Malusi Gigaba was in contempt of a court order issued by the High Court in Pretoria in...

    How An Asylum Seeker Becomes A Refugee In South Africa

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    A video of a child being torn away from the arms of a woman did its rounds on social media on Wednesday. The disturbing...

    “I Did Not Expect So Much Hate From My Fellow Africans”

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    Naomi Nseya is a nail beautician and a mother of three from Umbilo. Hailing from the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital city, Kinshasa, the...

    As xenophobia returns to South Africa, Nigeria demands answers

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    The Nigerian government has demanded answers from the South African government after its citizens were attacked over the past two weeks in what is...

    Language matters 

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    There has been a resurgence of xenophobic rhetoric over the past few weeks in South Africa. That of course seems to imply that xenophobic...

    Why single stories that fuel xenophobia are dangerous

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    "They're stealing our jobs" is a dangerous single story that fuels xenophobia and misdirects community anger. It is ironic that in the same month that...

    Why Refugees In Cape Town Want To Leave South Africa

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    AS TOLD TO  The video of a baby being ripped from the mother’s arms by police officers in Cape Town horrified and disturbed most people...

    The fight against sexism and GBV must include migrant, refugee women

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    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...

    Immigrants and South Africans stand together against xenophobia

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    “Look, right now what I would say is it’s very fearful to live in South Africa as an immigrant or refugee or a foreign...

    Coping with xenophobic discrimination in South Africa

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    Ever since 2008, there has been periods of intense xenophobic violence and riots against black foreign nationals and immigrants. In the past fews years,...

    “Hillbrowfication”, The Hillbrow Of The Future

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    Driving through the streets of Hillbrow means navigating narrow streets made that way by the Rea Vaya, traffic that moves in a hectic manner,...

    Africa Day: “We still fear being called kwerekwere and our shops...

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    The South African government is using Africa Day, which commemorates the 25 May 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity, since renamed the Africa...

    X(enophobia) marks the spot for Human Rights Day

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    21 March 1960 was the day of the Sharpeville massacre. The non-violent protestors on the day were challenging the apartheid regime's pass laws, which...

    Why are immigrants soft targets for local frustrations?

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    Over the past month, South Africa has experienced a recent resurgence in xenophobic violence. With the looting of shops and destruction of houses belonging...

    Xenophobic Attacks Return In Durban

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    AS TOLD TO During the March/April xenophobic attacks in Durban, a group of Congolese men in Philani, uMlazi Y section were attacked, allegedly because that...

    No more playing games: five ways that South Africans can tackle...

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    This past Sunday saw the final match of the Social Cohesion Games in Soweto, launched in February by Gauteng Premier David Makhura. The tournament,...

    Banned in his own country and forced to leave SA under...

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    LEGESSE SEIFU, a 46-year-old Ethiopian asylum seeker, has been ordered to get out of the country before 28 May (tomorrow) by the South African department...

    “Poverty Contributes To Divisions With African Migrants”

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    After having witnessed an upsurge in xenophobic attacks in 2015, an Eritrean former shopkeeper and now a PhD candidate in the school of Applied...

    Mashaba points finger at civil society: #JhbFire “was bound to happen”

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    Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has once again shown anti-poor sentiment, this time in the wake of the devastating fire at the Cape York building...