Immigration
Home Affairs says it will clear 68-year backlog in refugee applications in four years
The UNHCR and Home Affairs have announced a US$9.6 million asylum seeker backlog project
News | 9 March 2021
“It is a sin that South Africans can do this to their fellow Africans” says witness to Durban violence
But no evidence of the alleged killing of two immigrants in last week’s attack
News | 9 March 2021
Covid-19 leaves immigrants desperate for help with food
8,000 families have turned to Zimbabwean embassy for assistance
News | 3 March 2021
“Most of our members are at Nkandla”: MK veterans say they’re not behind Sunday’s attacks on immigrants
Witnesses say two traders were killed at Durban market and several injured
News | 2 March 2021
Children’s shelter faces closure after department stops funding
“We have no option but to go out in the streets begging” says a 20-year-old living at the shelter
News | 2 March 2021
Zimbabwean couple demand gay rights
Yet having fled Zimbabwe, they face “corrupt, homophobic and xenophobic” Home Affairs in South Africa, says NGO
News | 26 February 2021
Covid-19 drives children as young as four onto the street to earn
“I have to help my mother so she can buy food” says nine-year-old
Feature | 24 February 2021
Helping immigrant children get into schools
The Scalabrini Centre’s #access4EVERYchild campaign is assisting families
News | 16 February 2021
Spaza owners protest after Port Elizabeth murders
“We cannot live like hunted animals”
News | 15 February 2021