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Human movement: Migration is a major issue, but there has not been enough action to deal with the root causes — such as inequality and instability across the continent. Photo: Delwyn
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Immigration debate is misdirected, savage 

It is also true that undocumented migration can create space for criminal activity. But we have to be honest: immigrants are not the main drivers of crime in this country. Data…

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…

Leonardo DiCaprio in the thriller One Battle After Another. Photos: Warner Bros. Pictures

One Battle After Another: The revolution will be cinematic

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio join forces for a high-stakes, darkly hilarious thriller exploring family, revolution and lingering trauma

Done waiting: Campbell Meas, winner of this year’s National Playwright Competition at the National Arts Festival. Photo: Boipelo Khunou

Campbell Meas is done waiting

A candid look at Campbell Meas’s journey navigating creativity, identity and the challenges of breaking into the arts industry

Irish Minister of State Neale Richmond gives an address at the Africa Ireland Trade Horizons conference. (Supplied)

Irish state minister: Visa imposed on South Africans harsh, but necessary

Neale Richmond said the Irish government was aware of the effect this has had businesses and people, but the move was constantly under review

The High Court has overturned a Home Affairs official’s decision to reject the asylum application of a man who fled his home country after he was imprisoned for homosexuality. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Judge slams home affairs department for ‘unintelligible, illogical babble’ in gay case

An immigration official rejected the asylum application of a man from Chad who was jailed solely for homosexuality in his home country

Congolese artist Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe. (Supplied)

The art of identity and migration

Artist explores the way that personal history challenges the concepts of home and belonging

Ireland celebrates 30 years of ‘shared values’ with SA, reiterates support for Palestine

Irish companies have developed a significant presence in South Africa and employ more than 12 500 people

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Cabinet applauds conviction of Home Affairs officials in fraudulent passport scheme

Home Affairs minister Leon Schreiber said the convictions proved that corruption could be defeated

If South Africa is intent on fulfilling the provisions of the AfCFTA, then the department of home affairs must relax, rather than retract, its visa requirements for people from other countries, particularly African ones.(Gallo)

White Paper on immigration fails Africa’s free trade aspirations

The African Continental Free Trade Area endorses immigration, yet South Africa’s home affairs department is pushing for stringent requirements for visas

Lies and stereotypes: A march against migrants in Pretoria. Photo: Alet Pretorius/Getty Images

Myths and realities: Are migrants really the problem?

Public figures are often quick to heighten negative stereotypes about migrants

77 people died and when the building they lived in burnt down in Johannesburg.

Open a commission of inquiry into Joburg inferno

At least 73 people have died and scores injured when the building they lived in burnt down

Libya’s southwestern tip in the Sahara bordering Algeria and Niger has turned into an open door for migrants and refugees from sub-Saharan countries heading for Europe.

Africa’s forgotten colony in the Sahara

Rich in resources but largely unrecognised, those in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic eke out a livelihood under harsh conditions.

The former president has called for the movement of people and goods between South Africa and African states to be easier

Motlanthe: Our immigration policy has lost Africa’s trust

The former president has called for the movement of people and goods between South Africa and African states to be easier

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)

Xenophobia and the beggaring of neighbours

South Africa is quick to forget ubuntu or its own destabilising role when it comes to regional policies

Africans abroad: Living the dream — in South Africa

Sandras Phiri is a global ‘go-to’ business start-up coach, empowering others and practising entrepreneurship. The born and bred Zambian plies his trade from South Africa and…

Boris Johnson meets Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame. (Photo: AARON CHOWN/AFP via Getty Images)

The UK’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is 21st-century imperialism

Moving unwanted arrivals out of sight grants political footholds to richer nations in host regions

Targeted: On the day the M&G visited the township, immigration officials arrested people without reasonable suspicion of a crime having been committed, allegedly for ‘looking like’ foreigners. Photos: Denvor de Wee

Diepsloot raids ‘illegal’, say lawyers

Harassment, xenophobia – and jubilation – are on display when Mail & Guardian visits the township

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)

OPINION | Civil society must lead the response to xenophobic violence

South Africa needs to hold a national conference on xenophobia, which would be the first step towards building a civic infrastructure to fight discrmination against foreign…

Wounded people lie in the street on March 21, 1960 in Sharpeville, where security forces massacred 67 protesters. In 1960, police shot 69 black people in the Sharpeville township, south of Johannesburg, during a protest against pass laws, which restricted black people’s movement. (STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

Operation Dudula, Afrophobia and the quest for human rights

The ongoing Afrophobic behaviour in our country is misdirected anger and frustration at the fact that black South Africans still have to make do with welfare crumbs