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Migrants are blamed for causing South Africa’s problems, particularly by groups such as Operation Dudula, which acts in defiance of the Constitution and laws regarding education and health. Photo: AFP

Right-wing populism targets migrants

Politicians all over the world are deflecting people’s anger and resentment at their failings onto a convenient scapegoat

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)

In South Africa, when expectations collapse the poor revolt against the downtrodden foreigners

Revolutions are seeded not just in hunger, but in the fear of decline, particularly among those who thought they had escaped it

President Cyril Ramaphosa is jetting off for his meeting with US President Donald Trump. Photo: Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Could Ramaphosa make a refugee deal with Trump fly?

Our president, a skilled negotiator, can offer to broker a compromise between Israel and Palestine and take awkward asylum seekers off the US president’s hands

Labour: A pregnant woman at the Harare home of midwife Angeless Kanzara. Zimbabwe’s health system has been affected by the economic crisis. Photo: Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images

The unspoken debt: How South Africa benefited from Zimbabwe’s collapse

History and data shows people from Zimbabwe, who are not asking for handouts, have given a great deal to South Africa

Xenophobia is fear and anger weaponised against the vulnerable – and it’s deadly. File photo

Undocumented migrants put pressure on SA – but there are ways to manage it

Xenophobic attacks remind us of what happens when the government fails to deal with citizens’ needs.

House of cards: Despite constitutional assurances of gender equality and the right to housing, women find themselves up against patriarchal norms, unequal treatment under customary practices and little protection from the law. Photos: Seri

Female & Guardian | ‘Policies skewed against women’

UN report finds discrimination against women in land and housing programmes

Leaders such as , Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu pursue power at the cost of people. (File photo)

Liberal collusion with Trump’s racism

As the US president turns on South Africa it is time to take a wider view of domestic complicity with his racism

African refugees and migrants fleeing war and dictatorships in search of safety on European shores.  (AFP)

Home may be the least bad option for African migrants

To keep migrants away, Fortress Europe has extended its walls into African countries such as Morocco and Mauritania

Taking advantage of local communities’ despair and desperation, the politicians agitate by blaming foreigners for stealing jobs (Getty)

Ethiopia and the myth of inequality and xenophobic violence

The country shows that, despite socio-economic problems, a society can be tolerant of migrants — and the attitude of leaders has a lot to do with it

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

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)

Increasing xenophobia highlights the need for political change

Political parties use migrants as scapegoats for all that is wrong in South Africa. Civil society organisations need to build a united front against hatred of all forms

Rocky road: Ethiopians seeking political asylum, or just a better life, in Gulf states, walk along a highway in Yemen to cross into Saudi Arabia on 23 August. Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images

Saudis use ‘sportswashing’ to paint over alleged killings

The government denies any wrongdoing, describing the allegations of the murder of Africans on the country’s borders as unfounded

By 2050, up to 5% of Africa’s population — potentially 113 million people — may have to leave their homes because of the effects of climate change, a figure that is up from 1.5% today.

Climate change will force 113 million Africans to migrate by 2050

Most of this will happen within countries, with a second migration across borders taking place under extreme social or environmental conditions

Hundreds of Tunisians gather to celebrate their Independence Day by shouting slogans with banners and Tunisian flags in their hands on Habib Bourguiba Street in Tunis, Tunisia on March 20, 2023. (Photo by Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Tunisia, an anti-democratic revolution in the making

President Kais Saied is using African migrants and European Union migration policies to undo recently acquired democratic rights

President Emmerson Mnangagwa. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, please deliver a government that will attract Zimbabweans home

Zimbabweans have been forced by hunger, joblessness, poverty, fear and repression to cross into South Africa — where xenophobia is rife and they are persecuted

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Inform people about climate change to reduce conflict, violence with migrants in South Africa

The country is ill-equipped to respond to the devastation caused by the climate crisis and must develop mitigation strategies

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)

An injury to an African immigrant is an injury to all

Anti-foreigner sentiment may be an election-winning issue come 2024. But African immigrants deserve better

Red sea: The EFF has struggled to get the positive sentiment it gets at events, rallies and on social media to translate into actual voters at the polls. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Economic Freedom Fighters turn on foreign nationals

Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters have joined the anti-black immigrant chorus, demonising those from countries such as Zimbabwe.

A general view of burnt out goods after a Pick n Pay truck was torched along the N1 in Klipheuwel on July 08, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. It is reported that both the N7 and N1 were affected by protests after a nationwide call for truck drivers to stop operating to protest the employment of foreign drivers. The truck drivers also threatened to shut down the whole country. (Photo by Jacques Stander/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Brakes put on foreign truck drivers

New legislation aims to protect local jobs in the transport sector amid questions as to whether SA has enough willing and skilled drivers

Migrants stay in the transport and logistics centre near the Bruzgi border point on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region on November 18, 2021. – Belarus. (MAXIM GUCHEK/BELTA/AFP via Getty Images)

What you need to know about the EU-Belarus migrant crisis

Here is what you need to know about the crisis that has seen thousands of migrants trapped in dire conditions on the Belarus-Poland border