Refugees
latest news & developments
Home Affairs withdraws asylum directive as Schreiber defends reversal
Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber has defended the withdrawal of an asylum application directive after refugee centres were overwhelmed and violent anti-immigrant protests…
When will she be safe? The continuum of violence in refugee and migrant women’s lives
While South Africa celebrates Women's Month, many refugee and migrant women continue to face a continuum of violence, from the trauma of forced displacement to xenophobia,…
Are we proud of a nation where foreigners live in fear?
Hundreds of African refugees and asylum seekers are camped outside Durban's Refugee Reception Centre, living in fear of xenophobic attacks and a looming 'deadline'. This report…
Showing solidarity with refugees in South Africa
As South Africa commemorates World Refugee Day, this article examines the nation's commitment to protecting asylum seekers and refugees. It addresses the challenges of…
Foreigners seek UN intervention after Durban police station standoff
About 200 foreigners who say they are fleeing attacks linked to anti-immigrant groups have called for United Nations intervention after spending two days outside Durban Central…
Court orders government, police to block vigilantes from two clinics — and put up warnings at entrances
The judgment complements a November ruling meant to stop groups such as Operation Dudula from blocking foreign nationals from entering government hospitals and clinics and…
Welcome to America
I find myself in Trump’s MAGA, which is more accurately MAWA – Make America White Again
Judge slams home affairs department for ‘unintelligible, illogical babble’ in gay case
An immigration official rejected the asylum application of a man from Chad who was jailed solely for homosexuality in his home country
Trump order cutting aid, offering sanctuary to Afrikaners is premised on factual inaccuracies, SA says
The department of international relations and cooperation said the order failed to recognise South Africa’s ‘profound and painful history of colonialism and apartheid’
The dark underbelly of immigration fraud in state institutions
The government must address the corruption surrounding the management of undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees by home affairs officials, the police and the defence…
Euphoria over regime change in Syria but it is fraught with danger
The Assad dynasty has fallen, but will it end Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
Africans trapped in Lebanon by ‘kafala’ labour system and Israel’s bombs
With nearly 2 500 people killed in recent Israeli strikes on Lebanon, nobody in the country is safe, and the only help for Africans is from other migrant workers
Io Capitano is a cinematic journey of hope and heroism
The brilliant Io Capitano, which opens the 11th European Film Festival, puts a human face on migration issues
Beware UK ‘cash for asylum seekers’ deal with Rwanda
The ‘stop the ships’ law shows how countries like Britain can evade their international responsibility to host refugees by shipping them off to Africa in exchange for…
Conflict, migration exposed
Alfredo Jaar’s photo exhibition is of Rwandan, Sudanese, Afghani and Vietnamese refugees