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Durban attacks worry SAHRC
Article from Sunday Times Daily The SA Human Rights Commission says it is “deeply concerned” over violent attacks on foreign vendors in Durban that left several people injured and traumatised over the past two days. Police and metro police responded to violent clashes...
Home Affairs claims it will fast-track 68-year backlog in refugee applications in four years
By Tariro Washinyira The UNHCR and Home Affairs have announced a US$9.6-million asylum seeker backlog project. On Monday, the Department of Home Affairs, the Refugee Appeals Authority and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched a...
“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 The uMkhonto Wesizwe Military Veterans (MKMVA) has distanced itself from attacks on immigrant traders in Durban on Sunday which left two people dead according to witnesses. MKMVA KwaZulu-Natal...
Covid-19 leaves immigrants desperate for help with food
8,000 families have turned to Zimbabwean embassy for assistance Zimbabwean relief organisations in South Africa say immigrants are still battling to apply for the special Covid-19 R350-a-month grant. The grant was extended to cover immigrants in June last year. The...
A #South African perspective on the crucial contribution by #migrants at a local level.
UN says 15 Europe-bound migrants die at sea off Libya
By SAMY MAGDY CAIRO (AP) — At least 15 Africans drowned when their boat capsized Sunday off Libya, a U.N. spokeswoman said, the second shipwreck involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe in just over a week. Safa Msehli, a spokesman for the International...
Salamina Mahlangu Shares Thoughts on African Migrants
All the new Level 1 rules, including closing times for restaurants and visits to old-age homes
After two months of Alert Level 3, South Africa moved to Level 1 on Sunday evening. In his address to the nation on Sunday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the country has now clearly emerged from the second wave, with fewer than 10,000 new infections in the...
Rwandan opposition group coordinator in SA, Seif Bamporiki, killed in Cape Town
JOHANNESBURG - Rwanda opposition activist Seif Bamporiki has been shot dead in Cape Town. He was a member of the Rwanda National Congress and national organiser in South Africa. It’s alleged that the businessman, who sold beds, was called for a delivery in Nyanga on...
Saudi humanitarian org donates food relief to 15 000 vulnerable South Africans
JOHANNESBURG - The King Salman Humanitarian Relief Centre donated food relief support to support vulnerable people in South Africa Wednesday. The food donation, meant to alleviate the suffering of less privileged communities during the ongoing Covid-19 induced...