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10 Daily Vox stories that were read far and wide in 2015
The Daily Vox's most read stories are not necessarily the juiciest, the most newsworthy or the best stories on our site, but the ones...
Want to help victims of gender-based violence? Give these organisations a call
As the 16 days for no violence against women and children campaign ends, THE DAILY VOX TEAM rounds up a list of organisations that you...
“Women should know that they are never alone”
Philani Sangweni (23) decided he wanted to make a difference in his community and work to end gender violence, so he joined Brothers for...
In the shadow of #FeesMustFall, xenophobic violence grips Grahamstown
While students at Rhodes University were fighting for their right to a free education, just down the road foreign shop owners were subjected to xenophobic...
Tell us why you support us – #WhyiVOX
Dear Readers,
The Daily Vox started off as an experiment. When we first launched the project as South Africa Votes in January 2014, we anticipated...
Commonwealth Games: “I don’t feel like my opinion counts as a citizen and a...
Durban this year won the bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Well, "won" might be too strong a term as Durban was the only...
Top of the Vox: Chatsworth Camp closes, kind of
“The government is taking a gamble with foreign lives as it cannot totally guarantee our safety in the community... I am still scared of the...
Zimbabwe and South Africa’s cat and mouse game of deportation
On a dusty township street on the western edges of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Clever Ngwenya, 28, tries to sell his phone to a...
Chatsworth camp officially closed, but more than 100 refugees stay put
Fewer than 100 of more than than 200 refugees have left the Chatsworth camp despite the announcement by eThekwini municipality that it would be closed...
Chatsworth camp closure: refugees face an uncertain future
The Chatsworth refugee camp for people displaced by the recent xenophobic violence in Durban is set to close on Tuesday, a move that could...
Operation Fiela in the Cape Town CBD: “They carry those guns like it’s war...
On Saturday, 86 African immigrants were arrested in a joint operation conducted by the SAPS, the SANDF, traffic officers, the metro police, brand specialists and immigration...
A mediation on Youth Day: 16 June, 2015
What black power can we rally under a black majority government, when a full 40% of South Africans are unemployed?
Yes, a day for black...
“If you are determined to do something, you can make it in South Africa”
He can be found almost every afternoon on Davenport road, trying to convince commuters to purchase his metal art pieces. Like many other people,...
Operation Fiela and our history of kicking out ‘illegal’ immigrants
Operation Fiela has been described as “legitimising xenophobiaâ€. While many South Africans have spoken out against the controversial raids, others feel they are justified....
The Brazilian who thinks white South Africans should get asylum in the EU because...
More than 25,000 people have supported a Change.org petition for the European Union to allow white South Africans citizenship in Europe, because white people could die from...
How art in the classroom is tackling xenophobic sentiment
Protests, raids and repatriation are some of the ways that South Africa has dealt with xenophobia. But Where Do I Stand, a documentary film,...
Africa Day: “We still fear being called kwerekwere and our shops being destroyedâ€
The South African government is using Africa Day, which commemorates the 25 May 1963Â founding of the Organisation of African Unity, since renamed the Africa...
I refuse to paint every South African with the same brush of bigotry and...
Today is Africa Day and also the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity, the forerunner of the African Union....
“The police are part of the problem in South Africa; they don’t like us”
ADDINEW DAMA*, an Ethiopian national, has lived in South Africa for 10 years, selling counterfeit clothing in Bellville. Earlier this month, the SAPS, metro...
The xenophobes, like the refugees, are human
Many of the foreign nationals in South Africa are refugees, who have fled their own countries due to war, only to find they aren’t...
