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With nearly 2 500 people killed in recent Israeli strikes on Lebanon, nobody in the country is safe, and the only help for Africans is from other migrant workers. (Photo by Ahmad Kaddoura/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Africans trapped in Lebanon by ‘kafala’ labour system and Israel’s bombs

With nearly 2 500 people killed in recent Israeli strikes on Lebanon, nobody in the country is safe, and the only help for Africans is from other migrant workers

A view of wreckage of buildings after Israeli airstrike hit residential areas in the southern parts in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israeli jets traumatise African migrant workers

Many of Lebanon’s domestic migrant workers are haunted by memories of the Beirut port explosion four years ago

‘Squid Game’ is an explicit critique of the current mode of capitalism. (John McCann/M&G)

South Africans are trapped in a ‘Squid Game’

‘Squid Game’ is an explicit critique of the current mode of capitalism. But far too much popular discourse has overlooked or neglected its sociopolitical messages.

Days of Cannibalism is proppelled by a compelling, ambiguous storyline (Supplied)

Days of Cannibalism Review: Not a Hannibal Lecter story

Days of Cannibalism tells a compelling story about Chinese traders moving into Lesotho in search of economic success and the effects this has on the Basotho people

(John McCann/M&G)

Vital remittance flows plummet due to Covid-19 lockdown

Money sent home by migrant workers in South Africa fell about 80% in April after the hard lockdown was instituted

Stimela: Gold miners, circa 1910. Many of them were, for years, recruited in Mozambique and made the trip to South Africa by train. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Moz miners’ misery unveiled

Migrant workers faced many depredations on their railway trips to and from Mozambique

(David Harrison/M&G)

Despite legislation, workers’s rights are still abused

The Constitution enshrines the right to dignity, but it should also include the right to work

Leaving home means leaving your friends

Leaving home means leaving family – and could have health implications

Leaving home means leaving your friends, family and social support. But it’s worse than that.

Amelie Chauke was able to keep up with her healthcare on the go and ensure her baby was born HIV negative with the help of farm-based clinics. (Dylan Bush)
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Plant, pick, pack: Finding Mpumalanga’s missing fruit pickers

In this province, the agricultural and mining sectors draw thousands of workers each year – and then they disappear. Here’s why we need to find them.

Simpewe Zaducha

Security doesn’t flow across the river

This is the second in a series of four articles about the cross-border portability of social benefits for migrant workers.

Farmworkers pick melons on Maroi Boerdery Farms.

Migrant workers: The human right to access health care

Although migrant farmworkers don’t have much of a chance at accessing social security their access to healthcare in South Africa has improved.

Migrants flee Italian town as pope condemns violence

More than 1 000 Africans fled a southern Italian town over the weekend after a wave of violence against migrant farm workers.

Social insecurity

Migrant workers in the SADC region are being doubly punished when it comes to recouping social security, writes Stuart Rothgiesser.