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Acting head of the SIU Leonard Lekgetho. (SA government/Facebook)
BURSARIES

SIU to recover R8 million bursary funded to deceased students, foreign nationals and officials

The SIU has made 36 referrals for disciplinary action against officials, including human resources personnel, administrative clerks and directors, for contravening the Public…

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
3 min read
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)
FOREIGNERS

Xenophobia threatens black South Africans the most

South Africans are suffering from self-imposed apartheid-like systems and views – having to prove their rights by carrying IDs (similar to the dompas system) and being judged by…

  • Nombulelo Shange
6 min read
Malema’s visits to the hospitality industry are about the greedy business owners, not their workers. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
PUTSOUTHAFRICAFIRST

The EFF is not xenophobic

Malema’s visits to the hospitality industry are about the greedy business owners, not their workers

  • Sihle Lonzi
9 min read
We would still have crime, unemployment, a drug problem and poor delivery of basic services because political elites, not migrants, are to blame for SA’s ills
CITIZENS

Political elites, not foreigners, are to blame for South Africa’s problems

What if we told foreigners to voetsek? We have fallen victim to the illusion of scarcity. And we are led to wrongly believe immigrants are a threat

  • Andile Zulu
8 min read