Press Review May 2020
National Coverage How South Africa is denying refugees their rights: what needs to change The Conversation.com - May 12th 2020 South Africa hosted about 273,488 refugees and asylum seekers, of whom 84% come from sub-Saharan Africa, in 2018 - the latest period for which figures are available… The policy and law applying to refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa is largely progressive, [but] refugees in South Africa… face many challenges in accessing their rights to social protections...
Press Review April 2020
National Coverage Covid-19 is not a reason to hunt down illegal immigrants DailyMaverick.co.za - April 29th 2020 Thousands of people in South Africa are being excluded from government relief programs simply because they lack the legal requirements to be in the country. In the spirit of unity, this has to change. The lockdown in many countries in Africa, including Nigeria and South Africa, risks threatening the livelihoods...
Press Review March 2020
NATIONAL COVERAGE South Africa removes migrants squatting in Cape Town Apnews.com March 1, 2020 Hundreds of foreign migrants have been removed from central Cape Town by South African authorities following a months-long stand-off. The migrants, who were moved in an operation Sunday, had demanded to be relocated to other countries, claiming they had been threatened by xenophobic violence last year. But the group lost their court bid to compel...
Press Review December 2019
NATIONAL COVERAGE Home Affairs: Tshwane UNHCR Protesters Can Live Legally in SA ew.co.za December 5, 2019 Protesters who had camped outside the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Pretoria last month are legally entitled to be in South Africa. The Department of Home Affairs on Thursday said it checked their status and was trying to get them to return to their homes in the country. Full report: https://ewn.co.za/2019/12/05/home-affairs-tshwane-unhcr-protesters-can-live-legally-in-sa-1?fbclid=IwAR1_ha17c66-6gYEzEIozqT87P6wqNBa5Q9Y-7_f_fZFf0i-lB3DMH6qG4Y South Africa fails in duty to offer refuge dailymaverick.co.za...
Press Review November 2019
NATIONAL COVERAGE Foreign protesters not our problem, says Home Affairs dailymaverick.co.za 13 November 2019 It is not the job of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to identify the protesters camped outside the UN refugee agency in Pretoria. This is according to its latest court papers submitted to the Pretoria High Court as part of litigation aimed at having the protesters removed from living on the pavements...
Press Review September 2019
NATIONAL COVERAGE South Africa apologises to Nigeria after anti-migrant violence news24.com 16 September 2019 South African envoy expressed the country’s “sincerest apologies” to Nigeria on Monday, after a wave of anti-migrant attacks swept through Johannesburg and surrounding cities in recent weeks, fuelling diplomatic tensions. A meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the capital Abuja was held to convey President Cyrial Ramaphosa’s “sincere apologies about the incident that has recently...
