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8 January 2009
Staff Writer
NO ARRESTS have been made in the attacks on foreigners in Durban at the weekend, despite alleged perpetrators being pointed out and CCTV footage clearly identifying them, Sherylle Dass of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said yesterday.
Dass said allegations were also made that members of the local Community Policing Forum (CPF) and African National Congress ward councillor Vusi...
18 November 2008
JOHANNESBURG - Threats to boycott next year's general election followed the ConstitutionalCourt's postponement of the Moutse demarcation row on Tuesday."We won't vote," said a frustrated Abraham Mahlangu, echoing similar calls by Khutsongresidents ahead of the last election over their own incorporation into theNorth West from Gauteng.Mahlangu,the chairman of the Sehlakwane Demarcation...
22 October 2008
October 21, 2008, 18:15
Sick and dying inmates are being left to waste away behind prison walls. The harrowing scenes can be seen on secret footage taken inside a Gauteng prison. The exclusive footage forms part of a Special Assignment investigation into medical parole, which airs later tonight.
Shocking images from behind the walls of Modderbee prison, east of Johannesburg, are exposed. An...
14 October 2008
Business Day - State to review decisions on cross-border municipalities
Sibongakonke Shoba - Staff Writer
COMMUNITIES in areas where their municipalities were incorporated into other provinces against their will, seem to have won the battle as the government is now reviewing these decisions.
The provincial and local government department told Business Day that the decisions affecting...
13 August 2008
ARE foreign nationals in Pietermaritzburg at the receiving end of South African police harassment? Up until last month, 26-year-old Zimbabwean refugee Phinias Joe probably would have said no. Despite having been in South Africa since 2004, he'd never been asked by police for his ID book, let alone his (valid) refugee papers.
But that was before his brush with the law on July 22, which resulted...
11 August 2008
THE past three months have seen a dramatic change in the public perception of this country's victims of xenophobic violence.
From once pathetic victims of violent wrath by SA's poor and disillusioned, refugees upset by the government's poorly planned re-integration policy have now been branded as ungrateful rebels. This is often what happens when you don't live up to your brand name.
The...
29 July 2008
By Zelda VenterBarely two metres from the busy R512 roadleading to Lanseria Airport and Hartbeespoortdam, eight families have bravedthe inclement weather after they were evicted from the farm on which some hadlived for more than 60 years.
The group ranges from the elderly to smallchildren.
On Sunday night when the Pretoria News visited the evictees,65-year-old Priscilla Masilo and Jeremiah...
28 July 2008
Out in the cold (once again)NICOLE JOHNSTON: NEWS ANALYSIS | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Jul 28 2008 15:39In the space of just a few weeks, the status of refugees fleeing xenophobic violence has gone from victim to offender. The official line is that they are at best ungrateful and at worst criminals who have something to hide. The crisis at the Glenanda camp last week was sparked when the...
23 July 2008
Release Glenanda Asylum seekers - lawyers
Asylum seekers and refugees detained at the Lindela Repatriation Centre following their removal from Johannesburg's Glenanda camp on Tuesday should not be deported, Lawyers for Human Rights said on Wednesday.
Spokesperson Jacob van Garderen said his organisation had sent a team of lawyers to the detention centre to help those who believed they had...
23 July 2008
The Citizen 23 July 2008
Fight to save foreigner camps
STEVEN TAU and CHRIS BATHEMBU
JOHANNESBURG - LAWYERS for Human Rights (LHR) will fight a bid by the Gauteng government to demolish temporary shelters set up to house victims of xenophobic attacks across the province.
The provincial government announced yesterday that the shelters will be destroyed by the end of the week...