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Operation Dudula members gathered in front of Kalafong and then Hillbrow hospitals to try to stop ‘illegal foreigners’ from receiving healthcare. Photo: File

Scapegoating ‘illegal foreigners’ is no answer to South Africa’s historic, home-grown crises

enophobic opportunists and demagogues steer us away from addressing our own social failures

Zimbabweans and the ZEP

Zimbabweans to set up businesses without being required to first invest R5-million in South Africa, and the study permit was just that; a permit that allowed Zimbabweans to live…

Operation Dudula leader Nhlanhla Lux Dlamini gestures in the dock during his court appearance at the Roodepoort Magistrate Court in Roodepoort, near Johannesburg, on March 28, 2022. – Dlamini was arrested on 24 March, 2022 on charges of housebreaking, theft and malicious damage to property. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP) (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Images)

Operation Dudula vows to continue drive against illegal immigrants after leader gets bail

Operation Dudula has carried out a crackdown against illegal immigrants in Jo’burg, a drive that has resonated with mainly poor, angry South Africans

Life without documents: Undocumented learners can write matric, but without IDs they cannot access higher education. (Madelene Cronjé)

Education system fails undocumented learners

Despite a court order, the education system is failing learners who do not have documents, both those born here and those from other countries

Several families said were already deep in debt after borrowing money to pay for their children’s risky journey overseas, and did not know how they would repay the loans. (Reuters/Nguyen Huy Kham)

First bodies of UK truck victims arrive in Vietnam for burial

The bodies of 31 men and eight women were discovered in a refrigerated lorry in an industrial state in Essex, east of London, on October 23.

Former United States President Donald Trump. Photo: Supplied

Trump’s hostility to immigration runs contrary to the facts

The United States administration’s inhumane treatment of migrants will not fix the system — it needs to be constructively overhauled, not destroyed

Some city officials, as well as pro-migrant and civil rights groups, have sought to educate those who might be targeted on their rights in the event of a raid. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)

As US agents prepare to arrest ‘thousands,’ undocumented people live in fear

Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are expected to hit the streets of at least 10 major American cities

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Border kids search for a better life

Unaccompanied Mozambican teenagers regularly attempt to cross into South Africa

The dramatic turn of events was well-received among the immigrant community and by those who help them.
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Migrants happy to see end of family separations at US border

Twenty-three hundred children have been forcibly taken from their parents since the implementation of this zero tolerance policy two months ago

Woolworths food and clothing retailer.

Winter Olympics calling for Ghana’s skeleton ace

After failing to qualify as a sprinter, Ghana’s Akwasi Frimpong is set to become the second athlete from West Africa to compete in Pyeongchang

​Bigots like Donald Trump and Herman Mashaba fuel hatred

Immigrants, illegal of not, will continue to traverse the globe in search of a better life

The number of Malawians without proper documentation attempting to find work in South Africa is peaking rapidly, according to the home affairs. Mujahid Safodien, AFP0

Desperate Malawians flock to SA

Malawian immigrants come in the hope of finding jobs – but if they don’t have the proper papers, they face arrest, detention and repatriation.

Trump says illegal immigrants ‘have to go’

The millions of undocumented immigrants living in the US must leave, Donald Trump said as he unveiled his immigration platform.

Pinetown truck driver sentenced to eight years and 10 months

Sanele Goodness May pleaded guilty to: culpable homicide, fraud, entering SA illegally, being in possession of fake licences and two other charges.

Stranded: Thomas Nukeri

Xenophobia violates Health Act and migrants’ rights to care

Refugees run the border crossing gauntlet of lions, rivers, rape and theft hoping for a better life.

Jean Kufil Lukila

Hunger strikers: ‘They shot us in the head at Lindela’

Foreign detainees being held at Lindela Repatriation Centre say guards got violent to end their passive protest against conditions in the facility.

Refugee school fights for survival

Teachers face an uphill battle to educate immigrant children stranded in no-man’s land.

Protester: Israel treats us like criminals

Thousands of African asylum seekers have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv criticising the state’s long-term detention of illegal immigrants.

Less than 300 000 Zimbabweans stay legally in South Africa.

Zimbabwe wants SA to keep its citizens

The cost of deporting illegal Zimbabwean immigrants is huge and has prompted calls for South Africa to legitimise their stay.

Israel-Egypt border fence to block migrants and militants

Israel-Egypt border fence to block migrants and militants

The office of Israel’s Prime Minister says the Cabinet has approved a $160-million programme designed to stanch the flow of illegal migrants.