Immigration
Covid-19: City of Cape Town and national government bicker over housing of refugees
City claims Bellville site is not compliant with anti-virus regulations
By James Stent
News | 8 April 2020
After the storm: protesting refugees settle in to marquee life
No city, province, or national officials at site
Text by James Stent. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 3 April 2020
Police end five-month long occupation of Cape Town church
Protesting refugees moved to Bellville site
By James Stent
News | 2 April 2020
Covid-19: Police shut immigrant-owned spaza shops after Minister’s xenophobic statement
Open shops for us to buy locally and obey lockdown, say township residents
News | 27 March 2020
Ethiopian shop owners in Diepsloot say police are stealing their goods and cash during raids
Police are terrorising us, says shopowner
News | 9 March 2020
City to go back to court over refugee crisis in central Cape Town
Only one refugee said they were willing to return to the broader community
News | 5 March 2020
Refugees arrested during clashes in Cape Town
“We are dying in this country” says Somali man
By Ashraf Hendricks and James Stent
News | 2 March 2020
Refugee mother owed nine months of child grants
Annie Tshimanga given the runaround by SASSA after her card was stolen
Brief | 2 March 2020
City acts against Greenmarket Square protesters
It remains to be seen if the nearly six-month long stand-off in central Cape Town has ended
News | 1 March 2020