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What’s driving anti-immigrant healthcare blockades? Sharon Ekambaram from Lawyers for Human Rights says it’s everything from the sky-high cost of Zimbabwean passports and corruption to South Africa’s institutionalised xenophobia — and a growing global intolerance of migrants. (Bhekisisa team)
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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…

  • Tanya Pampalone
  • Mia Malan
  • Anna-Maria van Niekerk
  • Jessica Pitchford
  • Thatego Mashabela
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South Africa has a structural unemployment problem that is not primarily caused by increased labour migration. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
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ActionSA pushes for constitutional change as Operation Dudula  targets migrants at clinics

The Human Rights Commission and legal experts say the Constitution, the National Health Act, the UN Refugee Convention and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights…

  • Mandisa Makgakga
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