Displacement
latest news & developmentsAbdulrazak Gurnah’s Theft: A story of servitude, survival and the search for home
Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with Theft, a moving portrait of loss, longing, and the elusive idea of home.
Land and dignity: A global reflection anchored in Palestine
Land is more than a physical resource — it is the foundation of identity, freedom and dignity in places as far-flung as North America, Australia and New Zealand to Gaza, India…
Gaza: South Africa must urgently return to the International Court of Justice
As humanitarian needs soar, provisional measures are needed for the full cessation of hostilities in Gaza.
Farmers fear loss of land to Motsepe Foundation citrus project
The foundation has injected millions into the project and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has also approved millions in funding, but farmers say they…
Mother City: A powerful documentary exposing Cape Town’s racial and economic inequality
Six years in the making, the pair’s film explores racial and economic inequality in Cape Town
Women’s rights: Insidious discrimination an affront to collective humanity
It is up to actors at all levels of society to rescue institutionalised prejudice that undermines the freedom and dignity of women and girls
Climate crisis causes meltdown of Africa’s three mountain glaciers
Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori mountains are all retreating faster than the global mean
Standard Bank ‘risks its reputation over East African oil pipeline
Standard Bank says it has insisted on good environmental assessments, resettlement plans and fair compensation
Conflict until the cows come home
Climate change and civil war are escalating tensions between South Sudan’s herders and crop farmers, who are competing over land
The year of the refugee
The 2019 African Union theme is driven by the need for greater commitment to address the plight of its citizens in forced migration situations
‘I was kicked out of our house by his parents’, say widows
If a man dies in the Central African Republic, his wife is at risk of being evicted from their home by his relatives.
A playlist for ukubuyela amid sites of displacement
The spatial displacement of black people extends itself into the spiritual.