Migrants face mental health crisis amid lockdown
The ongoing lockdown in South Africa has confined vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers to tiny rooms in which past traumas and hunger haunt them.
Refugees
Far right uses coronavirus to scapegoat refugees
Europe’s far-right nationalists are closing their borders and using Covid-19 as a guise to deport and deny entry to refugees and asylum seekers.
No safe country for refugees, in SA or elsewhere
The Pretoria offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees were at the front line in a desperate struggle by refugees and asylum seekers for resettlement in safe countries.
Xenophobia in classrooms harms learners
Teenagers remain traumatised and fearful after xenophobia flared up in their schools and compromised their education.
Legal uncertainty for former Angolan refugees
Former Angolan refugees in South Africa are living in a catch-22 as the government remains silent on the renewal of residency permits or upgrading of their legal status to permanent residency.