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June 25
South Africa: Why Migration Law Is Commercial Law - Cross-Border Trade Needs People, Not Just Policies
South Africa's R12.5-billion border modernisation programme aims to boost trade and regional integration, but infrastructure alone cannot unlock economic opportunity. As recent… Read more »
June 22
South Africa: Behind SA's Migration Tensions Lies a Deeper Crisis of Institutional Trust and Accountability
The tensions surrounding migration are not simply about xenophobia or border control. They reveal a society increasingly accustomed to learning about governance failures after the… Read more »
South Africa: Scapegoating the Stranger - Xenophobia Exposes South Africa's Hollowed-Out State Capacity
A nation does not heal by attacking the people who reveal its weakness. It heals by repairing the weakness. Read more »
Malawi: Massive Malawian Repatriation - Durban Site Overflows While Bus Blunder Strands 500 in Joburg
A massive operation to repatriate thousands of Malawians faces a dual crisis: Durban's temporary processing site is overflowing, while a bus permit blunder has left hundreds… Read more »
South Africa: SAPS Launches R600m Operation to Counter Anti-Immigrant Unrest Ahead of 30 June Deadline
Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia said the special operation against efforts to destabilise the country is costing taxpayers more than R600m. Read more »
June 18
South Africa: Threats Drive Immigrant Traders to Abandon Shops in Springs, Gauteng
Vigilante groups in Kwathema say immigrants must be out by 30 June, or else. Read more »
South Africa: Does Anti-Foreigner Hatred Pay? Do Digital Platforms Profit?
Digital platforms are not passive hosts of content. They have become creator economies in which attention is systematically converted into income, and content that provokes… Read more »
South Africa: Who Really Benefits From Illegal Immigration in SA?
By understanding who benefits from illegal immigration, the country can then move towards finding genuine solutions. Read more »
South Africa: Immigrants Make an Enormous Contribution to the Food Security in South Africa
Instead of mobilising against those from other countries, we need to be learning from them, embracing and appreciating their contribution in our economy and society, not least to… Read more »
June 16
South Africa: Zimbabwean Mother's Deadly Ordeal Highlights Migrant Healthcare Crisis After SA Hospital Demands Upfront Payment
She was a Zimbabwe Exemption Permit holder, and she died early in the morning at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, delayed and in great discomfort as an emergency patient forced to pay… Read more »
June 15
South Africa: Government Must Act Ahead of 30 June Mob Deadline and Assert Rule of Law
As the anti-foreigner 30 June deadline draws closer, the state can't afford to hesitate -- there needs to be lawful action. Read more »
June 14
Africa: Looming Carnage - On the Dangerous Anti-Migrant Mobilisation in South Africa
The chaos that threatens to explode from this mobilisation will devastate not only migrants but all poor people and workers. Only reactionary political forces will benefit from… Read more »
South Africa: Government Defends Tough Migration Crackdown Amid Increasing Anti-Foreigner Sentiment
A total of 2,745 foreign nationals have been repatriated to their home countries since President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled plans to deal with illegal immigration. This number is… Read more »
June 15
South Africa: Foreigners First, NGOs Next - the Buried Demand Inside a Viral Constitutional Campaign
South Africans for Constitutional Reform has presented itself as a campaign to put citizens ahead of foreigners - but one of its most significant aims may be a little-noticed… Read more »
June 10
West Africa: Nigeria Threatens Retaliation Against SA for Attacks On Its Citizens
The Nigerian foreign minister has said that her country might take action against SA for alleged attacks on Nigerians, but what that retaliation might be is as yet unclear. Read more »
June 08
South Africa: Ramaphosa's Migration Contradiction - Acknowledging Xenophobia While Feeding the Myth
The greatest threat facing SA is not migration. It is the growing willingness to blame migrants for problems created by the state itself. Read more »
South Africa: Have a Heart for Those Fellow Africans Now Desperately Fleeing Our Country
Most people from other African countries are not here because they want to be, but because their countries have been ruined by corrupt elites. Turning our anger on them instead of… Read more »
South Africa: Foreign Nationals Must Go - Marchers Reject Ramaphosa's Intervention
Anti-foreigner groups marched through the East Rand on Monday, rejecting President Cyril Ramaphosa's immigration reforms and warning businesses to terminate employment of all… Read more »
June 07
South Africa: We Will Do Better, Ramaphosa Promises, While Another Anti-Foreigner Protest Looms
President Cyril Ramaphosa responded to rising anti-foreigner protests in an address to the nation on Sunday, admitting that the government would improve its migration strategies… Read more »
June 03
South Africa: 'Violence Is Not Activism' - NatJoints Talks Tough On Anti-Foreigner Mobs After Xenophobic Unrest
SA's top law enforcement structure has issued the strongest rebuke yet by authorities to those inciting xenophobic violence across South Africa. Critics say that without arrests… Read more »
June 02
South Africa: Ramaphosa to Act On 'Illegal Immigration' As Anti-Foreigner Protests Spread Across South Africa
Protests targeting foreigners are increasing. President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country needs to deal with illegal migration. Read more »
May 26
South Africa: Condemned - Xenophobia, Mob Rule and SA Political Leaders Fuelling Anti-Migrant Hostility
A statement of outrage against the weaponisation of xenophobia and the brutal and unlawful treatment of migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers. Read more »
May 08
South Africa: South African Xenophobic Violence - When the State Retreats, Something Else Governs
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has warned that violence against African migrants in South Africa reflects a 'longstanding pattern' of grave rights violations,… Read more »
April 29
Africa: Hate On Parade - Xenophobic Marches Gather Pace As UN Warns South Africa
Across major cities, political entrepreneurs like Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and Zandile Dabula are staging increasingly bold anti-migrant marches, with little pushback from authorities.… Read more »
March 23
South Africa: Illegal Migration and the South African State's Responsibility
The migration pressures confronting South Africa are not simply about who crosses the border, but about whether the country can rebuild the administrative capacity required to… Read more »
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