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…
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…
UN report finds discrimination against women in land and housing programmes
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…
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…
The country must chart a humane policy for refugees that flows from the spirit and objects of the post-apartheid constitutional order
Refugees ‘hounded like dogs’ by the police and army despite protests by the United Nations Refugee Agency and civil society
The sections render asylum seekers ‘undocumented’ if they do not renew visas within one month of expiry date
Four people died last week after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in the Channel in freezing weather conditions
Prime minister expected to give speech on ‘meaningful moment’
Not only has South Africa signed various international conventions, its own Constitution gives children this right
Moving unwanted arrivals out of sight grants political footholds to richer nations in host regions
Asylum seekers with valid permits and caregivers will now also be allowed to apply for the reinstituted social relief of distress grant
More than 11-million people were forced to flee their countries in 2020
Services provided by the City of Cape Town and the government are gradually drying up
The home affairs department’s end game might just be the beginning. A hardcore few are still in one camp and about 600 remain in the second shelter
Many people at the Wingfield site have left to settle locally or be repatriated, but about 360 still insist they want to be resettled in a third country
Anxious Jo’burg, edited by Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden, acknowledges the city as a real place and not a horrifying stereotype
Cameroonians are caught between a vicious civil war at home and brutal detention and deportation measures in the countries they flee to
A girl’s experience tells the story of xenophobia and how it robbed her of a sense of belonging
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