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Seeking to profit from privatising prisons misses the point 

The only evidence Muller presents that “Prisons abroad are being run efficiently and humanely with much clearer accountability” are the examples of the GEO company and the…

Surveillance technology is increasingly being used to monitor civilians.

Digital occupation: How surveillance technologies repress dissent from Gaza to Cape Town

This creeping form of observation marks a dangerous evolution in how power is exercised and dissent controlled

Reckless: Operation Dudula members attack black Africans in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Getting rid of poor black foreigners will not stop crime and solve the unemployment problem.  (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

OPINION| Operation Dudula is a symptom of unresolved colonial and political issues

The movement purports to only encourage the government to act on undocumented immigrants but that’s a falsehood and its activities are criminal

South Africans and foreign migrants hold banner and shout slogan during a demonstration against xenophobia in Johannesburg, on March 26, 2022 organized by the activist movement against xenophobic attacks Kopanang Africa. Kopanang is a Sotho words meaning “gathering together”. – In recent weeks, scores of protesters in South Africa have been staging demonstrations against undocumented migrants in what they have dubbed “Operation Dudula”, Zulu for “drive back” whose leader Nhlanhla Lux Dlamini was arrested on Thursday according to the police. (EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)

OPINION | The African immigrant’s blues in SA

A better understanding of the plight of refugees should make African immigrants more welcome on their own continent

Demonstrators dressed in black veils join a rally in New York 27 February, 2000 to protest the acquittal of four white police officers in the shooting death of African immigrant Amadou Diallo (portrait). Hundreds turned out to protest.  (Doug Kanter/AFP)
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Amadou Diallo will never be forgotten

Amadou Diallo, a Guinean man, was killed by NYPD officers 21 years ago. Today protesters still invoke his name as they fight for justice

Withdrawing from global climate change agreements and building more walls and fences to keep poor and destitute people out is not the solution. (John McCann/M&G)

Borders can’t stem migrants’ search for a better life

Young Vietnamese driven by poverty, made worse by climate change, became traffickers’ victims

We are not happy to be here because none of them [South Africans] want us in this country.

Slice of life: ‘South Africans beat us, burn us’

South Africans are not scared to tell us that even the president doesn’t want us here; that we should go back to where we belong.

Face-off: Hundreds of mainly foreign men watch as Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba meets with local councillors and police commanders on August 2 following a day of unrest in the city. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Strangers are blamed for our burdens

Politicians find quick fix ‘solutions’ in a bid to appease citizens who accept false information

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EDITORIAL: Blaming migrants not on

Blaming foreigners for a nation’s problems is a tactic beloved of populist and nationalist politicians everywhere

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

A detained immigrant child watches a cartoon at a U.S Customs and Border patrol immigration detainee processing facility. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

US to examine migrant children in custody after second death

Guatemala called for an investigation into the boy’s death and some US lawmakers angrily denounced the Trump administration’s immigration policy

Mexican foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)

Top US, Mexico diplomats meet in Washington amid migrant crisis

The two countries are grappling with how to handle the thousands of Central American migrants who are camped at the common border

Should you believe the hype about the “foreign threat” to healthcare? (GCIS)

Are foreigners stealing your jobs and healthcare? Find out.

A ‘foreign threat’ could be a convenient boogeyman in an election season where politicians will face questions about their failures. Or not?

Editorial: It’s dangerous to other foreigners (Photo Archive)

Editorial: It’s dangerous to other foreigners

‘The DA is not the only political actor in the country that is using foreigners as a convenient scapegoat for our significant economic problems’

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Editorial: Hypocrisy off the field

‘The truth is that the likes of France continue to benefit from migration while still waging a war on migrants’

In her resignation letter

UK interior minister Amber Rudd resigns in blow to Prime Minister May

​Britain’s interior minister Amber Rudd resigned Sunday, admitting she "inadvertently misled" lawmakers about deportation targets

“I would give anything to have this behind me and be back representing my country

Macron: France will not allow another ‘Jungle’ in Calais

The government of Macron’s predecessor Francois Hollande dismantled the Jungle — a squalid camp that at its height was home to some 10 000 people

Pressing Matter: Mabro Hats milliner Jimmy Baloyi hard at work.

Keeping your hat on in Jo’burg

An Indian immigrant-turned-milliner built the iconic Master Mansions, which stands firm amid the wind of change

African migrants at a temporary camp of safety in Primrose

Africa needs free movement

The continent needs a humane migration policy in a world that is anti-migrant and anti-black.

A family talks to relatives through the US-Mexico border fence in Playas de Tijuana

​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