The political leaders may have the power to enforce measures to address xenophobia, but they are seemingly more concerned with settling scores.
"He just said: ‘What we need is for you to go back where you come from.’ I think about that to this day and I feel bad; so, so bad.
A group calling itself the Mamelodi Concerned Residents is leading a march to the department in protest against immigrants in South Africa.
The Jo’burg mayor’s contentious remarks about foreigners ‘can’t be brushed off’, some insist
Behind the rage in in Rosettenville and Phomolong is a mix of xenophobia and internecine battles.
Gigaba said that he agrees with Mashaba that national government needs to intervene in matters related to undocumented migrants.
Immigrants, illegal of not, will continue to traverse the globe in search of a better life
The HRC is probing the mayor’s remarks that, some claim, may incite violence against foreigners.
Black South Africans have embraced European ideas, so why can’t citizenship be equally fluid?
Many Somalians and Ethiopians are too scared to stay in South Africa, but too afraid to go home after fleeing the war in the Horn of Africa.
Zambian police have arrested more than 250 people after widespread riots and looting prompted by rumours of alleged ritual killings by Rwandans.
Following xenophobic comments about foreign nationals last year, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has been accused of hate speech.
In this ‘combustible environment’ shopkeepers attack foreign shop owners, but departments too are brutal.
Violence and murder – of Marikana miners and foreigners – inspired works by saxophonist Salim Washington
The final report from the committee on probing violence against foreign nationals is expected to condemn officials who incite xenophobic violence.
Since the start of Operation Fiela, over 9 000 arrests have been made and over 15 000 undocumented immigrants repatriated, Jeff Radebe revealed.
The last camp in SA hosting displaced foreigners following xenophobic attacks across the country in April, is scheduled to close on Tuesday.
Beliefs that foreigners "steal" our jobs and drain services fuel xenophobia and inform government policy. LHR dissects three myths about SA migrants.
Africa’s leaders gathering for the AU summit will discuss the problem of xenophobia to sensitise all countries on the continent about the problem.
That Africans remain sceptical about trusting SA became clear at a Dakar gathering of the continent’s top social science and political thinkers.
The state frames and perpetrates self-hate among blacks through violence – as in Operation Fiela.
President Jacob Zuma has stressed that incorporating the African Union anthem in SA schools and churches will help build African unity.
Malawian victims of xenophobia repatriated from South Africa are drifting back in large numbers
The M&G interviewed the residents of Marathon near Germiston who shared their views on reintegration since the xenophobic attacks.
Marathon informal settlement leaders have told foreign residents they will protect them from the small group that started the attacks.
The police and army’s Operation Fiela is only fuelling xenophobia, say NGOs and visitors from nearby countries.
Despite claims that the "crime crackdown" discriminates against foreign nationals, Gwede Mantashe says Operation Fiela has the ANC’s full support.
The problem of migrants is not South Africa’s alone, but a regional one – and it will require regional solutions
Cabinet has decided that Operation Fiela-Reclaim would continue and that a number of "underlying issues" needed to be tackled.
The Alexandra Magistrate’s Court has heard how Mozambican national Emmanuel Sithole was attacked and how the police arrested his alleged killers.
There have been very limited government-led reintegration efforts after the xenophobic violence, writes Emi Maclean from Médecins Sans Frontières.
Xenophobia is a hate crime and most analyses so far are too rational to understand its psychology.