The two are a mirror of one another.When democracy declines, societies become divided by race, religion and ethnicity. Leaders tolerate or encourage violence to further their own…
Herman Mashaba says ActionSA would “embrace” a possible mayoral candidacy by Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma in eThekwini, as the party sharpens its focus on undocumented foreigners ahead…
Xenophobia offers a simple but misleading explanation for a complex crisis. It reframes mass unemployment, failing public services and weak governance as a question of belonging
Female migrants cite barriers to accessing local healthcare facilities
The judgment complements a November ruling meant to stop groups such as Operation Dudula from blocking foreign nationals from entering government hospitals and clinics and…
The hostility directed at migrants often stems from ignorance of civic rights and scapegoating by politicians wanting to deflect blame from their ineptitude
Politicians all over the world are deflecting people’s anger and resentment at their failings onto a convenient scapegoat
Xenophobia is festering across the world. In South Africa it carries a dangerous legitimacy, cloaked in the language of liberation, and now embodied in open fascism of Operation…
But there is hope. Poor South Africans, the very people Operation Dudula claims to represent, are standing against this form of hatred and extreme violence
The Human Rights Commission and legal experts say the Constitution, the National Health Act, the UN Refugee Convention and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights…
Populist parties have made considerable gains in the wake of the government’s insecurity-inducing economic policies
Public figures are often quick to heighten negative stereotypes about migrants
Report says crime statistics at the end of August reflected limited improvement on protecting women’s rights
South Africa is quick to forget ubuntu or its own destabilising role when it comes to regional policies
The broken Zimbabwe economy and political system are too much of a push factor for xenophobia and Aaron Motsoaledi to stop people seeking refuge in Mzansi
enophobic opportunists and demagogues steer us away from addressing our own social failures
The market, allowed to flourish and create jobs, is the solution, not violent nationalism
One person was killed, while others were stripped naked and beaten by groups, who also barricaded roads and searched abandoned mines
Dozens of stalls were reduced to ashes in the fire, with some traders adamant that the Afrophobic vigilante group was to blame
Our reactions would be more positive if we understand that bullies act out as result of their own pain
