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22 September 2019: Claudine Ndjowo (far left) helped the Ngonefi family with translation as Thethe Nsemuila Antaya speaks mainly French. Donette Ngonefi sits in front of her parents, Donatien Ngonefi Bubu and Thethe Nsemuila Antaya, with her sister Antaya Tabitha Ngonefi and brother Bonheur Ngonefi to the right.

Xenophobia in classrooms harms learners

Teenagers remain traumatised and fearful after xenophobia flared up in their schools and compromised their education.

By: Zandile Bangani
6 Nov 2019

Editorial and Analysis

18 May 2019: Department of International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has blamed the media for painting South Africa and its citizens as xenophobic. (Photograph by Gallo Images/Sunday Times/Sebabatso Mosamo)

Xenophobia denialists should be held culpable

By insisting that the recent spate of violence in South Africa was ‘just crime’ and that migrants are to blame for the country’s ills, politicians and commentators spread the hate that sparks pogroms.

By: Jan Bornman
19 Sep 2019

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10 September 2019: Migrants displaced by xenophobic violence in Katlehong township near Johannesburg lost everything and have found temporary refuge at the Thulo Hall and other centres in the area. (Photograph by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images)

Xenophobia victims bussed back home

Gauteng’s disaster management centre and a number of aid agencies are helping migrants affected by the xenophobic attacks in Katlehong to return to their home countries. But not everyone wants to go.

By: Nation Nyoka
13 Sep 2019

Editorial and Analysis

2 September 2019: Goods belonging to a street trader lie strewn across the sidewalk after a xenophobic mob rampaged through the Johannesburg CBD looting shops and attacking street traders as they went.

Xenophobia heightens with calling of ‘mass shutdown’

Four government ministries claim South Africa is not xenophobic, seemingly ignoring the outbreak of violent xenophobic attacks around the country.

By: Jan Bornman
2 Sep 2019

Editorial and Analysis

7 August 2019: Looters run through central Johannesburg after police opened fire with rubber bullets. A police operation targeting foreign-owned businesses in the Fashion District led to protesters looting stores in the central business district.

How Toni Morrison can help us fight xenophobia

Xenophobia is festering in South Africa, stoked by the actions of the state itself. How do we stop violence against migrants? The thoughts and words of the late Toni Morrison can help.

By: New Frame Editorial
12 Aug 2019

Editorial and Analysis

29 March 2019: Hundreds of people took refuge at Sherwood Park in Durban after xenophobic attackers accused them of being employed by local firms. Many had fled war and persecution in their own countries.

Politicians’ denial of xenophobia

South African politicians are simultaneously encouraging and legitimating xenophobia, and denying that attacks on migrants are xenophobic.

By: Jan Bornman
25 Apr 2019

News

17 February 2019: Photos of the three young men on display during the funeral service. From left to right: Jafari Fiston Binyongo, Bernard Sadiki and Elias Moise Kahindo.

Xenophobia is a triple-killer in Zeerust

Three young Congolese men died in a car accident in Zeerust while trying to help a friend get medical attention. But they shouldn’t even have been on the road.

By: Jan Bornman
19 Feb 2019

Editorial and Analysis

Party politics sinks into the xenophobia gutter

As electoral politics veers to the right across the world, South African politicians follow with election promises focused on combating ‘illegal immigration’.

By: New Frame Editorial
28 Jan 2019

News

14 September 2017: City of Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba. (Photograph by Gallo Images / Sowetan / Sandile Ndlovu)

Xenophobia behind mayor’s ‘citizen’s arrest’

Another grossly xenophobic statement by Herman Mashaba has escalated growing concerns about the DA’s collapse into reactionary populism.

By: Jan Bornman
16 Nov 2018

Features

21 December 2017: Nombuyiselo Ntlane at her home in Snake Park where she holds a photograph of her son, Siphiwe. He was shot dead by a migrant spaza-shop owner when he was 14. (Photograph by Oupa Nkosi)

The lived experience of xenophobia

A new book offers stories from various sides of South Africa’s scourge.

By: Jan Bornman
25 Oct 2018

News

18 September 2018: Rose Nkosi, president of SASTA addresses people gathered at the Diepkloof Welfare Centre during a meeting held by the South African Spaza and Tuckshop Association.

Organised xenophobia gathers momentum

From small organisations in townships to party politics and Parliament, hostility to migrants and migrant-owned businesses is taking more organised forms.

By: Jan Bornman
28 Sep 2018

Editorial and Analysis

Remember, remember, the fifth of November…

The mask inspired by Guy Fawkes has become a global symbol of protest, the kind that will multiply as more and more stand up to those clinging to power in an unsustainable system.

By: New Frame Editorial
8 Nov 2019

News

2 October 2019: Migrants in Johannesburg see outgoing mayor Herman Mashaba’s resignation as a ‘very big blessing’. (Photograph by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)

Herman Mashaba’s xenophobic legacy

The outgoing mayor’s tweet about the arrest statistics of migrants in Johannesburg over four years displays both his bigotry and a misunderstanding of how crime and policing work.

By: Jan Bornman
6 Nov 2019

Culture

The joke is on us

Joker, a movie about a disaffected man discarded by society, holds an uncomfortable mirror to our daily reality in which the rich create the circumstances that crush the poor and create havoc.

By: Daylin Paul
18 Oct 2019

Sport

29 June 2019: Ghanaian fans watching their team play Cameroon in the group stage of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Ismailia, Egypt. (Photograph by Visionhaus)

Ghana vs Bafana: More than a football game

Subplots will dominate the Black Stars’ clash with Bafana in November, from Accra’s response to xenophobia in South Africa to changes in Ghana’s football leadership.

By: Michael Oti Adjei
12 Oct 2019

Features

Robert Frank’s negatives in black and white

The Switzerland-born photographer and author of The Americans leaves behind a legacy of images that define the photographic canon.

By: Daylin Paul
11 Oct 2019

Editorial and Analysis

3 October 2019: Philosopher, political theorist and public intellectual Achille Mbembe after presenting the Ruth First Memorial Lecture at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. He spoke about migrancy, populism and xenophobia. (Photograph by James Puttick)

Ruth First Lecture 2019 | Achille Mbembe

Sorrowing over the treatment of migrants, Achille Mbembe calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance, phase out colonial borders and become ‘a vast space of circulation’.

By: Achille Mbembe
4 Oct 2019

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28 September 2019: For heritage week, Abahlali baseMjondolo hosted an event themed “Our unity is our weapon of success”, in Vusumuzi Section, Tembisa. Speakers condemned xenophobia and violence against women and children.

Abahlali’s Heritage Day rally condemns violence

The shack dwellers’ movement expressed opposition to violence against women and migrants and called on the state to stop neglecting impoverished communities.

By: Magnificent Mndebele
30 Sep 2019

Editorial and Analysis

20 September 2019: Thousands of learners and protesters gather ahead of a climate strike in Sydney, Australia. Protests held across Australia are part of a global mass movement demanding action on the climate crisis. (Photograph by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

If we burn, you burn with us

Millions across the globe took to the streets to agitate for climate action, igniting a revolutionary spark against capitalism in the battle for the future.

By: New Frame Editorial
23 Sep 2019

News

Undocumented children are entitled to basic education

Advocates for learners without birth certificates who have been barred from schools argue that the state is punishing them for circumstances beyond their control.

By: Tania Broughton
19 Sep 2019

News

8 September 2019: A large group of men from inner-city hostels met with Mangosuthu Buthelezi in Malvern, Joburg, but did not respond well when he tried to dissuade them from participating in ‘purely xenophobic’ violence. (Photograph by James Oatway)

The people who sparked the xenophobic violence

Zweli Ndaba is the chair of the Sisonke People’s Forum. He penned the flyer that spurred hostel dwellers and truck drivers to take part in the shutdown that led to xenophobic attacks in Gauteng.

By: Jan Bornman
11 Sep 2019