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Police fire teargas at protesting Diepsloot residents
Protesters claim nine people have been killed since November allegedly by undocumented foreigners.
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Ramaphosa assures Ethiopia's PM of measures against xenophobia
He gave the assurance after his talks in Pretoria with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
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SAHRC hopes foreign nationals living in CT chapel will return to communities
Hundreds of men, women and children have been living in the church off Green Market Square since they were removed from outside the UN Refugee Agency offices in October.
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Leader of foreign nationals released on bail, banned from CT CBD
Papy Sukami was arrested last week for robbery and assault. He appeared in a Cape Town court on Thursday.
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CT cops stationed outside church after conflict among foreign nationals
Violence erupted at the church on Sunday following a disagreement between rival factions on whether a Sunday service should be conducted.
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Ebrahim Rasool launches NGO OneAfrica to fight xenophobia
On Saturday, he celebrated the formation of the body called OneAfrica, geared towards fighting xenophobia.
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Repatriating foreign nationals not best option, says SAHRC
Refugees living at the Methodist church in Cape Town have been given a reprieve by the Cape Town Magistrates Court from a removal threat this week.
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EXPLAINER: Why foreign nationals can’t just leave SA
The world marks International Migrants Day on 18 December. Eyewitness News unpacks the reason why a group of foreign nationals urgently wants to leave the country and the challenges they face trying to do so.
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Govt officials and foreign nationals to meet again in CT on Thursday
On Tuesday, they met to discuss their options for alternative accommodation with municipal officials, home affairs officials and the police.
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Foreign nationals living in CT church served with court papers
About 500 people - men, women and children - have been occupying the Cape Town Central Methodist Church since the end of October.
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Foreign nationals in CT say they’ll walk to Botswana or Namibia next week
Refugee leader JP Balous said their plan to pack up and walk to the nearest border this week was delayed because four of their children drowned at a Sea Point Beach on Sunday.
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This is our last week in SA, say foreigners who plan to walk to nearest border
The group has been living at the Methodist chapel for several weeks after being removed from outside the UN Refugee Agency offices.
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State of Nation: Xenophobic violence in South Africa
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT AND LANGUAGE. In 2008, xenophobic violence swept through South Africa at an alarming rate. In 2015, it happened again. Most recently, in August 2019, South Africans again targeted foreign nationals, their businesses and lives coming under threat. Borders Episode 2 looks at the lives of migrants and refugees living in South Africa, and the dangers they face trying to find sanctuary from persecution.
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STATE OF NATION: Inside SA's xenophobia crisis
Speaking to experts, perpetrators and victims, Eyewitness News journalists Thomas Holder and Nickolaus Bauer take a look at two sides of the problem - what it means to be on the receiving end of the results of this confusion, and why the misunderstanding exists in the first place.
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State of Nation: A deeper look at the xenophobia crisis in SA
The South African government's lackadaisical approach towards migration is not only reinforcing dangerous xenophobic stereotypes but costing the country economically. This is the sobering view from economists, academics and lawyers as South Africa picks up the pieces after sporadic violence was unleashed against foreign nationals several weeks ago. After at least 10 deaths, millions of rands in projected damage to property and billions estimated in lost economic productivity, the South African state has been adamant that xenophobia is not behind the unrest.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: Why SA suffers from the ‘impostor syndrome’
South Africa privileges being polite over being forthright, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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Refugees arrested for trespassing at UNHCR offices abandon bail application
They were part of a larger group of more than 180 refugees who appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates Court after violent clashes broke out with police in Brooklyn last week.
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Refugees chant 'no more South Africa' as case postponed
They were arrested last week for trespassing after they allegedly tried to force their way back into the UNHCR offices where police were carrying out a court order to remove them.
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24 cops injured in clashes with foreign nationals in Pretoria
About 500 foreign national were forcefully removed from the yard of the agency after they had been camping there for weeks.
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GALLERY: Refugees continue sit-in at UNHCR in Gauteng
Refugees and their children marched inside the premises of the UNCHR on Thursday, 14 November 2019. The refugees are asking for help to leave South Africa following recent xenophobic attacks.
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Foreign nationals vow to continue fight to leave SA without Gift of the Givers
Foreigners told the organisation to go because Gift of the Givers director Badr Kazi stated their demand to be relocated to another country en masse was 'unrealistic'.
