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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'.
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Gift of the Givers withdraws services from refugees after being told to leave
Last week, the reverend had welcomed them in and offered protection against police who were rounding up the men, women and children who had been camping outside the UNHCR offices for more than three weeks.
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Number of foreign nationals at Pretoria UNHCR increase amid looming court action
The residents' associations of Brooklyn and Waterkloof are seeking a court order forcing the Tshwane metropolitan authority, South African Police Service and Department of Home Affairs to move the refugees.
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Officials greeted with ‘no more South Africa’ chants at UNHCR in CT
Refugees from Somalia, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan said that they were fed up with xenophobia and wanted the agency to help them leave South Africa.
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UN Refugee Agency has obligation to help foreign nationals, says lawyer
The Western Cape Refugee and Migrant Forum believe resettlement is not a practical solution, but immigration lawyer Craig Smith supports the sit-in.
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‘We need to leave this country’: Foreign nationals in CT call on UN for help
Dozens of foreigners gathered at the offices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Cape Town on Tuesday to plead for help.
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Dozens of foreign nationals plead with UN Refugee Agency to help them leave SA
The foreigners are camping out in front of the office, some holding babies and others waving the flags of their countries.
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Nigerian group in SA seeks to change narrative that they are lawbreakers
Nigerian Community Western Cape acting-president Cosmos Echie said the afrophobia was affecting the entire continent, as Nigeria and South Africa contributed nearly a third of Africa’s GDP.
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Xenophobic attacks, protests on ANC NEC weekend agenda
Party members are meeting in Boksburg this weekend.
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Pandor to reiterate SA’s regret over xenophobic attacks in her address at UN
The minister is leading the South African delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week.
