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Tensions escalated on Tuesday morning when the group refused to vacate the police station precinct, forcing police to use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. (Screenshot)

Foreigners seek UN intervention after Durban police station standoff

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…

South Africa must resist two dangerous temptations simultaneously: the temptation to demonise all foreign nationals and the temptation to silence every concern about illegal immigration through accusations of xenophobia. (Paul Botes)

Where does patriotism end and xenophobia begin?

There is something deeply dishonest about how few South Africans discuss immigration. They have become comfortable with moral grandstanding while communities collapse under the…

Support and funding for research, innovation and entrepreneurship should work in concert. Photo: File

Advance academic excellence through transformation and internationalisation at SA universities

The brain circulation among academics is an international phenomenon that must be celebrated instead of being despised

Fort Hare University, along with the Centre University of Technology, Free State, has been subjected to xenophobia accusations spread on social media. Photo: Supplied

Fort Hare University: Lies and xenophobia distract from the jobs crisis

State disinvestment in public services, infrastructure and manufacturing ensured that millions would remain trapped in cycles of poverty, with or without immigration

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 force

The dark underbelly of immigration fraud in state institutions

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…

A man rides his moped past a billboard bearing portraits of slain leaders, Ismail Haniyeh of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Iranian Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani, and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr on the main road near the Beirut International Airport on August 3, 2024. (Photo by Ibrahim AMRO / AFP)

Foreign nationals told to leave Lebanon amid rising regional tensions, fears of war

Saudi Arabia and France are the latest of several countries calling on their citizens to leave

Is joblessness a result of a lack of skills or low growth, or is low growth a result of lack of skills?

Do we know what we are doing with the jobs problem?

Is joblessness a result of a lack of skills or low growth, or is low growth a result of lack of skills? Government is not speaking with one voice

Xenophobic South Africans base their beliefs on apartheid-like differences such as people from elsewhere on the continent have darker skins. Photo: Photo: Hanna Brunlof (file)

Foreign nationals need to assist police in curbing crime

Infraction knows no nationality, but identifying perpetrators is necessary to control it

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Police Minister Bheke Cele addresses Jeppestown

Police minister Bheki Cele visited Jeppestown on Tuesday to speak to business owners and community leaders.

“Unregistered children are born, live and die in anonymity”. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Rights of foreign kids trampled on

Educating undocumented children is a moral and legal imperative that the state must recognise

Lindela retention centre

Limbo in Lindela awaits ‘Operation Fiela’ migrants

Home affairs has been left to figure out what to do with the hundreds of foreign nationals arrested in last week’s crackdown on illegal migrants.

International migrants are often accused of stealing jobs from locals in South Africa. But new data presents a picture of what it means to be a migrant trying to make a living in the country.

ANALYSIS: Are foreign nationals stealing jobs in South Africa?

International migrants are often accused of stealing jobs from locals in South Africa. But new data presents a far more nuanced picture.

Not in our name: Religious leaders plan march to end xenophobia

A march to the Durban City Hall is expected to take place this week as violence against foreign nationals in KZN is falling short of being quelled.

Show of force: Paramilitary soldiers arrive at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi after gunmen attacked it last week

South Africans united against xenophobia on social media

As attacks on foreign nationals in KZN continue, South Africans have taken to social media to say #NoToXenophobia.

King Goodwill Zwelithini. (Gallo)

Zuma’s son wants foreigners out of the country

President Jacob Zuma’s son, Edward, has come out in full support of King Goodwill Zwelithini’s controversial call to deport foreigners from SA.

Extreme weather is not the only bad news Americans have faced lately

On being foreign

What’s my country? Well, that’s complicated. Welcome to the globalised future of unbelonging writes <b>Tanya Pampalone</b>

‘I am still young and I am not ready to die’

Timus Mubia escaped with only his life twice in the past 11 years in SA. He fled Du Noon township at the end of May during xenophobic attacks.

‘I am still young and I am not ready to die’

Timus Mubia escaped with only his life twice in the past 11 years in SA. He fled Du Noon township at the end of May during xenophobic attacks.