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Right-wing Afrikaner movements seem to have forgotten that job reservation and other apartheid laws benefited white people at the expense of black people. Photo: Juda Ngwenya
AFRIKANER

Trade union Solidarity’s myth of Afrikaner suppression exposed

The apartheid state used job reservation, quotas, selective procurement, import controls and industrial policy to advance working class Afrikaners

  • Khwezi Mabasa
3 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