Immigration

Zimbabwean receptionist publishes his first book

Oswald Kucherera tells the story of his travails from Harare to Cape Town

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News | 28 April 2016

Why didn’t police stop looting of immigrant shops in Dunoon?

“The police shouldn’t just protect South Africans”

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Feature | 25 April 2016

Timeline of protest and violence in Dunoon

Concerns over housing have morphed into looting of immigrant owned shops

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News | 20 April 2016

Immigrant-owned shops looted in Dunoon

Cops accused of not being there to protect stores

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News | 18 April 2016

Home Affairs to be taken to court

Concern over withdrawal of rights of asylum seekers and refugees

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News | 5 April 2016

Happy ending for banned Zimbabwean

Home Affairs allows her back into South Africa

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Brief | 30 March 2016

Nigerians expelled from Western Cape town

Fourteen people flee Wolseley after crowd marches against them, loots their shops, and accuses them of murder and drug-dealing

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News | 4 March 2016

Khayelitsha residents close down Somali shop

Community leaders say they didn’t authorise shop

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News | 29 February 2016

PE refugee centre remains closed in defiance of court order

Applications from new asylum seekers should have been accepted from 9 February

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News | 19 February 2016

Immigrant children denied access to school

Dozens of children in Diepsloot turned away over documentation

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News | 15 February 2016

New deal to benefit De Doorns farm workers

Lesotho nationals to get permits

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News | 9 February 2016

Zimbabwean woman banned despite minister’s promise

A woman finds herself unable to re-enter South Africa even though she has the correct permit

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News | 5 February 2016

When can the police detain you for not showing documents?

Many immigrants are detained arbitrarily

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Analysis | 4 February 2016

Grants available for refugee organisations

A number of community-based refugee organisations in Cape Town are racing to meet the deadline for a project rolled out last year by the European Union

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News | 2 February 2016

Quiet walk home turns into nightmare for Malawians

Asylum-seeker spends six weeks in prison

Hefty fines for asylum seekers at Port Elizabeth refugee centre

Immigrants complain that officials humiliate them.

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News | 19 January 2016