Sunday, 28 May 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.
Another grossly xenophobic statement by Herman Mashaba has escalated growing concerns about the DA’s collapse into reactionary populism.
Family of slain former intelligence chief hope for closure and for Rwandan government to be held accountable.
Since their pointed political gesture at a Durban event in 2016, two Ethiopian athletes have lived in South Africa, fearing reprisals if they go back home.
Security service agent who refused to ‘engage’ targets pleads for asylum and appeals to Constitutional Court not to send him back home.
A new book offers stories from various sides of South Africa’s scourge.
As the 2019 elections approach, political parties are turning on migrants to displace popular anger and earn votes.
Migrant teachers have not been paid for several months over issues relating to the issuing of Zimbabwean exemption permits.
A year on, the relatives of Life Esidimeni patients who perished in the spiral of abuse are still searching for answers.
Parents in Westbury desperately try to keep their children out of gangs. But with slim prospects for work, and an overwhelming sense of neglect and decay, it can be a losing battle.
From small organisations in townships to party politics and Parliament, hostility to migrants and migrant-owned businesses is taking more organised forms.
People’s lives are always larger and richer than the constraints of the stifling boxes into which stereotypes place us.
New political parties are actively inciting xenophobia in Durban. This is raising the pressure on migrants, who often live in chronic insecurity and anxiety.
Three people have been confirmed dead as xenophobic violence returns to Soweto.
For the past 10 years, Khumbulani Ngubane has been stateless in the country of his birth. Now he’s challenging the department of Home Affairs over his status.