Why are immigrants soft targets for local frustrations?
Over the past month, South Africa has experienced a recent resurgence in xenophobic violence. With the looting of shops and destruction of houses belonging...
Banned in his own country and forced to leave SA under...
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...
“I Did Not Expect So Much Hate From My Fellow Africans”
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...
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...
Israel Is An Apartheid State
In our second op-ed for Israeli Apartheid Week, ALIE KOMAPE takes a look at how Israel’s racism and apartheid tactics oppress and violate not...
“We cannot have an African foreigner in Africa”
It has been a  year since the outbreak of xenophobic violence in Kwazulu Natal, which killed seven and displaced about 5,000 others. China Ngubane...
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...
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...
A Dangerous Prognosis: Vulnerable migrants stopped from getting essential healthcare services
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 — In South Africa, reports of xenophobic incidents are a daily reality but the use of the country’s strained public health...
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....
Joburg’s nationalistic attitude rears its head in Fattis Mansions, Cape York...
The divergent realities of people evicted from Fattis Mansions last week, and the victims of the Cape York fire, have highlighted Johannesburg’s nationalistic attitudes...
#MashabaInAction: Making Rosettenville Great Again
On Wednesday evening Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba swooped in on Rosettenville with SAPS in tow, and began raiding residences.
I'm raiding in Rosettenvile with @MichaelSun168...
No more playing games: five ways that South Africans can tackle...
This past Sunday saw the final match of the Social Cohesion Games in Soweto, launched in February by Gauteng Premier David Makhura. The tournament,...
As xenophobia returns to South Africa, Nigeria demands answers
The Nigerian government has demanded answers from the South African government after its citizens were attacked over the past two weeks in what is...
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...
The Difference Between “Migrant” and “Immigrant”
Growth in the number of international migrants has been strong over the last two decades. The International Migration 2020 report highlights 281 million people...
Mashaba points finger at civil society: #JhbFire “was bound to happen”
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...
