Residents of a Gauteng camp for refugees from xenophobic violence risk being thrown out of the country if they don’t register for temporary ID cards.
An apparent hostage situation at a refugee camp in Johannesburg highlights troubling situations in these camps, established after xenophobic violence.
Some Kliptown residents plan to protest against poor service delivery when Nelson Mandela pays them a birthday visit on Saturday.
Part of Oxford Road in Johannesburg collapsed on Tuesday during drilling operations for the Gautrain rail project.
The politician’s solution to all public blunders is to claim that his or her words were misinterpreted
A woman sitting on a basket quietly stirs a pan of spinach on a paraffin stove. Children run around noisily between plastic bags, suitcases, blankets and mattresses.
It took them a while to wake up and stop arguing about whose fault it was, but almost three weeks after xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals began, authorities in the worst-affected provinces have moved into action. Reintegration is the new game plan of the national government, Gauteng and the Western Cape.
The appalling condition of most hostels for migrant workers around Johannesburg havenՉ۪t changed since the days of apartheid.
Wandile Langa (20) says he is a proud xenophobe whose greatest satisfaction would be to see all "Shangaans go back to where they came from". He means Mozambican Shangaans. "It’s war I tell you; it’s South Africa versus Maputo." Langa is sitting in the back seat of our car as we speed through the rubble and ash from burnt tyres in the Ramaphosa informal settlement.
Eudy, Sizakele, Salome, Thokozani, Zoliswa and Gugu. These names — of black lesbians murdered in the townships — were blazoned on the T-shirts of gay and lesbian activists who gathered outside the Springs Magistrate’s Court this week. They demonstrated before the court appearance of five men on charges of murdering Eudy Simelane in KwaThema in April this year.