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

Friday Mark Gevisser - 7 Aug 2020

In this extract from Mark Gevisser’s new book, Aunty, fleeing abuse and witchcraft, treks to northern Malawi

Durban refugee office turns away asylum applicants

Article Jan Bornman - 23 Jul 2019

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

Article Agency - 8 Jan 2019

Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun, fleeing alleged abuse by her conservative family, says she tried to reach Australia on a tourist visa

Swedish student delays deportation of Afghan man with in-flight video stream

Article Gemma Ritchie - 25 Jul 2018

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

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Jun 2018

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

Sierra Leone vice-president asks US for asylum

Africa Staff Reporter - 16 Mar 2015

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

Atheists: Excluded and overlooked

Analysis Staff Reporter - 15 Jan 2014

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

Article Sapa Afp - 28 Jul 2012

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.

Refugees in backlog limbo

Article Staff Reporter - 5 Jun 2008

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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Eastern Cape MEC sues activist for defamation

anna majavu - 30 Sep 2020

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