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Amended Refugee Act restricts fundamental rights
Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi has defended the new amendments to the Refugees Act that came into effect at the beginning of the year, saying they serve to tie up…
Attacks point to ‘deeply entrenched’ xenophobic attitudes
It is more than a decade since the 2008 attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa, during which more than 60 people were killed
Migrant children’s education must be ensured, not promised
Although the education of children of immigrants is protected in the Bill of Rights, it is labelled an offence in the Immigration Act