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Maruping Phepheng

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Maruping Phepheng

Dr Maruping Phepheng is an author and a scholar of African immigration and human mobility. His Twitter handle is @MP_Author

President Emmerson Mnangagwa. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, please deliver a government that will attract Zimbabweans home

Zimbabweans have been forced by hunger, joblessness, poverty, fear and repression to cross into South Africa — where xenophobia is rife and they are persecuted

  • Maruping Phepheng
5 min read
South Africans and foreign migrants hold banner and shout slogan during a demonstration against xenophobia in Johannesburg, on March 26, 2022 organized by the activist movement against xenophobic attacks Kopanang Africa. Kopanang is a Sotho words meaning “gathering together”. – In recent weeks, scores of protesters in South Africa have been staging demonstrations against undocumented migrants in what they have dubbed “Operation Dudula”, Zulu for “drive back” whose leader Nhlanhla Lux Dlamini was arrested on Thursday according to the police. (EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)
IMMIGRANTS

OPINION | The African immigrant’s blues in SA

A better understanding of the plight of refugees should make African immigrants more welcome on their own continent

  • Maruping Phepheng
5 min read
South Africa must resist two dangerous temptations simultaneously: the temptation to demonise all foreign nationals and the temptation to silence every concern about illegal immigration through accusations of xenophobia. (Paul Botes)
AFRICAN DIASPORA

An injury to an African immigrant is an injury to all

Anti-foreigner sentiment may be an election-winning issue come 2024. But African immigrants deserve better

  • Maruping Phepheng
5 min read