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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.
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Pandor: Africa must take collective accountability for xenophobic attacks
Minister Naledi Pandor has delayed her trip to the united nations to meet diaspora civil society organizations in Pretoria to find solutions to the violence.
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1,500 flee homes in SA amid xenophobic violence: UN
South Africa, the continent's second-largest economy, is a major destination for other African migrants. But they are often targeted by some locals who blame them for a lack of jobs.
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Pandor to meet African Diaspora representatives over xenophobic attacks
She's to meet with representatives of the African Diaspora in Pretoria today. Twelve people died in the violence.
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Cabinet discussed Mboweni's economic growth paper - Mthembu
Minister Jackson Mthembu said the document, which had been criticised by some in the ANC alliance, only came before Cabinet this week to give interested parties an opportunity to make inputs.
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Ramaphosa: Foreign nationals must obey the laws of South Africa
President Ramaphosa addressed members of ANC branches in the greater Johannesburg region on Sunday.
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Fear after some Nigerians lost travel documents in Gauteng violence
They were caught in the latest flare-up of violence, mainly in Gauteng, leading to retaliatory attacks in areas including Lagos.
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'I'm tired, I want to go home' - Displaced foreign nationals
Hundreds of Mozambican, Zimbabwean and Malawian nationals who were displaced by the recent wave of clashes between locals and foreign nationals are living at community halls in Katlehong. They said they were ready to go home if South Africans didn't want them in the country, but warned that South Africans would regret it.
