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Nearly half a million asylum seekers in South Africa may lose their right to earn a living or study while their refugee status is being determined after indications that the government plans to amend legislation governing those rights.
An announcement on 23 November that Cabinet is "reviewing" the minimum rights of immigrants, including the right to work and study, was followed by a media br
Overcrowding at detention centres for those arrested as undocumented migrants -- and the deportation processes of those held there are subjected to -- is contributing to the spread of infectious diseases, posing a serious risk to the health of detainees, government officials and the public at large, a human rights group says.
Roni Amiit interviewed re: treatment of gay migrants.
Roni Amit interviewed re: gay migrants.
Tara Polzer Ngwato interviewed about xenophobia.
Loren B. Landau was interviewed on E TV on the current xenophobic threats in Alexandra.
Southern Africa has been bombarded by many stressors, leading to a food crisis and lack of hope for children's futures.
A chronic food security crisis has unfolded across Southern African since early 2000, with many more people than during the 1990s now living "close to the edge" and increasingly unable to absorb shocks or stresses.
Several countries in Southern Africa now see larg
A leading African institution for research, teaching and outreach on migration has bemoaned recent patterns of change in South African internal migration, which it fears could impact negatively on refugees.
The Johannesburg-based African Centre for Migration and Society said in its recently released quarterly migration report that the recent migration developments may affect the administrati
The moratorium on deporting illegal Zimbabweans has quietly been lifted by the department of home affairs, leading to an outcry from refugee rights groups.
No deportations of Zimbabweans have taken place for almost two years while home affairs have been running the Zimbabwe documentation project (ZDP) to offer legal status to Zimbabweans living illegally in South Africa.
Organisations wor
Loren B. Landau interviewed re: xenophobia.
Loren B. Landau interviewed on SAFM's "Talk Shop" re: humanitarian aid.
Abdul worked as a journalist in Somalia before death threats from Al-Shabab militia drove him to leave his native country and head for Mozambique where friends told him he would receive help at Maratane refugee camp in Nampula Province.
The boat he boarded in Mombasa had 110 other passengers - some Somalis with stories similar to his own, and others Ethiopians, either fleeing their own armed