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Kenyans in S.Africa Register for Elections Amid Xenophobic Violence

Kenyans in S.Africa Register for Elections Amid Xenophobic Violence

Kenyans living in South Africa have been making their way to Pretoria to register as diaspora voters for the east African country’s elections set for August 8. Despite initial concerns that the violence against foreigners in the capital city last week could affect them, many made their way over the weekend to the Kenyan High […]

Alarming Resent Growing Against South Africans Outside Borders

Alarming Resent Growing Against South Africans Outside Borders

The violent implosion in Nigeria as locals retaliate to xenophobic violence suffered by their compatriots in South Africa is merely a tip of an iceberg as bitterness brews among African nationals towards South African counterparts in their countries. With more people in countries where there is a presence of South African people and companies threatening […]

South Africa’s Planned Anti-Immigrant March Condemned

South Africa’s Planned Anti-Immigrant March Condemned

The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) has condemned a planned march against immigrants and the recent outbreak of xenophobic violence in certain parts of the country. The march is planned for February 24, however, it is not clear who has planned it, the institute said on Tuesday. “There are pamphlets making the rounds in […]

How Zambia Prevented Xenophobia – Lessons for South Africa

How Zambia Prevented Xenophobia – Lessons for South Africa

OPINION By Isaac Nkama ‘Isaac, we can no longer go to the movie today. We have a curfew,’ my late dad told me. ‘I understand, dad,’ I responded – and I genuinely did. This was a conversation taking place on a Saturday at home in Ibex Hill, in my hometown of Lusaka in 1978. I […]

South Africa Deports Hundreds of Mozambicans

South Africa Deports Hundreds of Mozambicans

The official death toll is seven with South Africans authorities claiming the murder of one Mozambican man was a case of criminality and not xenophobia-related. Some of the returned Mozambicans said on Saturday that they were arrested and taken to a detention centre when they were found in South Africa without proper documents. In mid-May, […]

What South African xenophobia, Ebola, and Nairobi flooding have in common

What South African xenophobia, Ebola, and Nairobi flooding have in common

Making cities work is a much tougher job than cutting through bush to build a road, and reviving a tourism industry is not like growing maize IN the last seven days, three stories have emerged out of Africa, and though at first glance they seem unrelated, they hint to a changing Africa, and why it […]

After ‘state xenophobia’ South Africa under scrutiny

After ‘state xenophobia’ South Africa under scrutiny

Police accused of heavy-handed tactics as foreigners are rounded up in a massive ‘crime operation’ across country. Johannesburg, South Africa – A semblance of normalcy is returning to the streets of the inner city of Johannesburg weeks after xenophobic violence hit South Africa’s commercial capital. The city appears to have just moved along, wearing the […]

South African society generates inequality

South African society generates inequality

Violent riots on the streets of South Africa in recent weeks have seen foreigners killed, shops looted and thousands left homeless. Foreigners are accused of taking jobs from locals in a country where unemployment remains high; proof of the chasm that remains between rich and poor. So 21 years after Nelson Mandela pledged to liberate […]

South Africa court prevents migrants’ deportation

South Africa court prevents migrants’ deportation

South Africa’s high court has temporarily prevented the deportation of more than 300 undocumented migrants. Rights activists have criticised the arrests of more than 700 suspected illegal migrants following recent deadly xenophobic violence. Police say they made the arrests during crime prevention operations. The authorities have been under pressure to both bring an end to […]

S.A. police raid church housing 400 refugees

S.A. police raid church housing 400 refugees

At least 400 foreign nationals arrested in Johannesburg in joint operation described as a “crime-prevention clean-up”. Johannesburg, South Africa – South African police have arrested at least 400 foreign nationals, after police backed by the military raided several buildings, including a church housing refugees in central Johannesburg on Friday. Katlego Mogale, a spokesperson for the […]

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