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‘Courageous reinvention’: an extract from Mark Gevisser’s ‘The Pink Line’

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In this extract from Mark Gevisser’s new book, Aunty, fleeing abuse and witchcraft, treks to northern Malawi
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Durban refugee office turns away asylum applicants

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A staff shortage means asylum seekers are unable to make appointments to apply for refugee status
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Australia to ‘carefully consider’ Saudi woman’s asylum plea

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Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun, fleeing alleged abuse by her conservative family, says she tried to reach Australia on a tourist visa
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Swedish student delays deportation of Afghan man with in-flight video stream

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Activist Elin Ersson disobeyed authorities to delay the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker, saying it is not right “to send people to hell”
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Queer Ugandans struggle with the complexities of seeking asylum from repression

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In the week that the first Pride parade was held at a refugee camp in Kenya, a commentator assesses the situation for LBGTI asylum-seekers from Uganda
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Sierra Leone vice-president asks US for asylum

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Sam Sumana was expelled from the governing All People's Congress party for what is described as "his anti-party activities".
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Atheists: Excluded and overlooked

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It's not just refugee law. The low status accorded to unbelievers has now become a matter of systematic civic exclusion, writes Zoe Williams.
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Russia says ‘not thinking about’ asylum for Syria’s Assad

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Russia has made no agreement to grant Bashar al-Assad asylum and is "not even thinking about" doing so, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
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Refugees in backlog limbo

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A damning exit report by a team of experts blasts the Department of Home Affairs for failing asylum-seekers in South Africa.
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Pay-TV inquiry probes the Multichoice monopoly

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Africa’s largest subscription television operator says it is under threat amid the emerging popularity of global platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime

Covid-overflow hospital in ruins as SIU investigates

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A high-level probe has begun into hundreds of millions of rand spent by the Gauteng health department to refurbish a hospital that is now seven months behind schedule – and lying empty

​No apology or comfort as another Marikana mother dies without justice

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Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre

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