Tuesday, 6 June 2023
Jan Bornman is a writer and photographer with an honours degree in journalism and a masters in migration and displacement. He writes about migrants, the challenges refugees and asylum seekers face and xenophobia in South Africa.
New regulations mean a person’s immigration status determines whether they can access healthcare, as documented asylum seekers and migrants who cannot pay are turned away from hospitals.
A new report exposes the behaviour of Department of Home Affairs administrators who misapply the law and use bigoted language against gender-diverse applicants fleeing persecution.
A Somalian in Johannesburg recounts his struggle to build not one business but two, after the first was destroyed in the 2008 xenophobic attacks.
A simplistic and erroneous view of the trade in humans can endanger the lives and livelihoods of the very people whom laws are supposed to protect. Who are the victims really?
A doctor who started in a managerial position just as the Covid-19 pandemic began talks about surviving the virus and what needs to be done to improve South Africa’s unequal health system.
In the conclusion of our two-part series, New Frame looks at the challenges and sacrifices made by the people who help refugees and migrants neglected by the state health service.
In this first of a two-part series, New Frame follows the invaluable help provided to refugees and other migrants who are ill and neglected by state health services.
Migrants without documents may be justifiably hesitant to get the Covid-19 vaccine and need assurance that their information will be protected and not used against them.
Born in the DRC and raised in South Africa, the bodybuilder’s indomitable spirit has seen him through childhood trials and the death of his brother.
The albinism community remains marginalised, vulnerable and exploited, yet little is being done to protect them from human rights abuses.
The Jesuit Refugee Service’s skills programme uplifts refugees, migrants and South African women by teaching them business skills and offering beauty and hairdressing courses.
The country has been moving steadily towards more securitised and militarised borders, further endangering those desperate to move to South Africa, but without addressing the real problems.
The health regulatory authority has not approved the antiparasitic drug to treat Covid-19, despite calls on the government to approve its use, as there is no data to support its effectiveness.
Blind Zimbabweans living in the inner city get by on networking, begging and precarious forms of survivalist work, despite some being well educated and able to earn a living if given the opportunity.
Beauty Ndlovu turned to sex work when she had nothing left to sell to support her children. And then came Hope, a special little girl who is her mother’s hope and joy.
Migrants near the border between South Africa, eSwatini and Mozambique walk a fine line, but it is family members living with an impairment who struggle most.
Two brothers born in South Africa to Angolan refugees still face an uphill battle for citizenship despite a high court order. The matter is now in the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Many of the claims those who support the Put South Africans First fringe group make on social media and repeated at recent marches in Pretoria are inaccurate and often entirely false.
Exaggerated reports on social media of human trafficking syndicates snatching people in broad daylight legitimate xenophobia while deflecting from the real problems in society.
For four years, people the City moved from inner-city buildings have lived at Wembley Stadium without proper sanitation, security or privacy.
A report by Human Rights Watch found that South Africans turn against migrants when they are looking to blame somebody for the government’s failure to provide essential services.