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  • FILE: The South African government has not yet indicated whether it will renew the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits which lapse in December. This picture shows the Department of Home Affairs. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/ EWN

    About 180,000 Zimbabweans in SA face uncertain future

    The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit lapses in December and the South African government has not indicated if it will renew it.

    359 days ago
  • FILE: The foreign nationals, among them refugees, had been staging a sit-in at the Methodist Church in the Cape Town CBD and demanding they be helped to leave South Africa. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    Refugees protesting in CT given 2 weeks to reintegrate or repatriate

    On Monday, Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced that 41 people including the so-called ring leaders Aline Bukuru and Papy Sukami were deported two weeks ago.

    397 days ago
  • Spaza shops in Soweto have closed down due to Covid-19 lockdown on 9 May 2020. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    FACT CHECK: MP claims 70% of informal economy ‘in hands of non-citizens’

    In response to the president’s State of the Nation Address, a member of Parliament questioned why most of South Africa’s informal economy is “in the hands of non-citizens”. Africa Check takes a closer look at this claim.

    432 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals in their makeshift shelters outside the Central Methodist Mission Church in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News.

    FACT CHECK: Does SA really have 15 million illegal migrants?

    Africa Check takes another look at the claim which has resurfaced stating that there are 15 million illegal migrants in South Africa.

    433 days ago
  • A screenshot of members of the MKMVA  forcefully shutting down all the foreign nationals shops in Durban on 3 November 2020. They demand them to leave the country immediately. Picture: @RiotAndAttackSA/Twitter

    SAHRC condemns ongoing attacks on foreign nationals in Durban CBD

    At least two men were left critically injured and hospitalised after a group of unknown suspects attacked informal traders in the city on Monday.

    439 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals working and living in Durban fear that they will be attacked again after their businesses were looted and torched during a protest on 25 January 2021. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    Foreign nationals working in Durban living in fear again after shops looted

    Foreign nationals working and living in Durban fear that they will be attacked again after their businesses were looted and torched during a protest on Monday.

    481 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    FACT CHECK: Mboweni claim that almost 100% of SA's restaurant staff are foreign

    Africa Check takes a closer look at the claim made by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni that close to 100% of restaurant workers in South Africa are foreign.

    530 days ago
  • FILE: The foreign nationals, among them refugees, had been staging a sit-in at the Methodist Church in the Cape Town CBD and demanding they be helped to leave South Africa. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    WC High Court rules certain provisions of Refugees Act must be suspended

    These govern the return of asylum seekers back to their home country because they're merely a month late in renewing a visa.

    536 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals in their makeshift shelters outside the Central Methodist Mission Church in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News.

    FACT CHECK: Are there really 15 mln ‘undocumented foreigners’ in South Africa?

    Africa Check takes a closer look at this recent claim by South African politician and businessperson Herman Mashaba.

    542 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    SA truck drivers’ forum: Foreign nationals should not be hired as truck drivers

    There's been a spate of violence on trucks where at least 29 of them were targeted in the past week allegedly in protest to the employment of foreign nationals in the sector.

    543 days ago
  • Foreign nationals living at a government camp in Bellville have yet again raised concerns over poor living conditions. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    CoCT takes Public Works to task over living conditions at Bellville refugee site

    The foreigners were being sheltered at two facilities after being moved there in April from the city centre.

    543 days ago
  • Foreign nationals living at a government camp in Bellville have yet again raised concerns over poor living conditions. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    Foreign nationals living at govt camp in CT reject deportation plans

    The Home Affairs Department said that it had started the process of deporting 20 foreign nationals who were protesting at the church in Cape Town's CBD in October last year.

    556 days ago
  • Faiz Ahmed, a Bangladeshi business owner in Jeppestown braves the looting to open his shop and sell what he can for a few hours during the day from behind bars. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN.

    Durban xenophobic attack victims fear for lives, struggling to make ends meet

    Some members of the uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans (MKMVA) in KwaZulu-Natal accompanied by homeless people are believed to have been among those who ransacked and shut down shops owned by foreign nationals.

    558 days ago
  • FILE: One part of a group of about 630 people, refugees originally from Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Bangladesh, and other countries who are sleeping in a large tent in Bellville, Cape Town, on 22 September 2020. Picture: AFP

    CT sites for foreign nationals not fit for human beings, says Parly committee

    Hundreds of refugees were accommodated at the two sites earlier this year after staging protests in the CBD for months.

    566 days ago
  • #PutSouthAfricansFirst march against foreign nationals

    A small group of people marched in Pretoria on 16 October 2020 under the banner of #PutSouthAfricansFirst, saying that foreign nationals were to blame for the country’s high crime rate and unemployment.

    583 days ago
  • Civil society organisation leaders speak to Nigerian Ambassador Kabiru Bala and hand a memorandum over to him on 23 September 2020. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    I won’t accept profiling of Nigerians as criminals in SA– High Commissioner Bala

    Kabiru Bala was addressing protesters outside the Nigerian Embassy in Pretoria on Wednesday afternoon.

    605 days ago
  • Civil society organisation leaders speak to Nigerian Ambassador Kabiru Bala and hand a memorandum over to him on 23 September 2020. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Unfair that Nigerians blamed for SA's social ills, says High Commissioner Bala

    Under the banner of #PutSouthAfricansFirst, small groups of people marched from Church Square to the Nigerian Embassy, saying government failed to put South Africans first.

    606 days ago
  • Small groups of civil society are marching from Church Square in Pretoria to the Nigerian Embassy on Wednesday, 23 September 2020. They are protesting against human trafficking and illegal foreign nationals. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Only One SA group marches in Pretoria calling for South Africans to be put first

    Several organisations under the banner #PutSouthAfricaFirst are marching towards the Nigerian and Zimbabwean embassies to call for locals to be prioritised.

    606 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals in their makeshift shelters outside the Central Methodist Mission Church in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News.

    Foreign nationals 'live in constant fear' in South Africa: HRW

    The group said xenophobia remained widespread in South Africa despite a government action plan rolled out in May 2019 to combat 'intolerance'.

    612 days ago
  • FILE: Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi. Picture: GCIS

    Home Affairs extends the validity of visas for foreign nationals

    The department said lawfully issued visas which expired from the 15 February and during the nationwide lockdown were valid until the end of October.

    656 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    SA truck drivers heed nationwide strike against hiring of foreign nationals

    The drivers claim that South African companies choose to employ foreign drivers over citizens and say they make up about 90% of the workforce.

    684 days ago
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