Programme News
19 June 2013
(News)
Hundreds of Somali-Americans rallied in Minnesota last week to protest the murder of a Somali shop owner in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The Somali man was killed during a week of riots that targeted Somalis and other African foreigners.
Abdi Nasir Mahmoud was beaten to death after two Zimbabwean immigrants who were allegedly looting a store were killed.
“You can replace what’s in a...
8 June 2013
(News)
Up to 200 Somalis marched in Cape Town on parliament on Friday morning to deliver a memorandum urging the government to act against the ongoing xenophobia attacks on them around the country. "We need protection - simple as that," one of the organisers, Abdullahi Ali Hassan, told AFP. Amid widespread poverty and unemployment, frustration in South Africa's run-down neighbourhoods...
7 June 2013
(Press release)
The recent attacks against foreign nationals, particularly those operating shops in townships and informal settlements, have sent shivers down the spines of many in South Africa and across the continent. It has been five years since coordinated attacks exploded across the country and led to the deaths of 64 people and the displacement of hundreds of thousands more. We remember visiting police...
7 June 2013
(News)
In Riverlea, people have had their solar geysers for only two weeks but their shoddy workmanship have dashed many residents' expectations.
Standing in her tiny kitchen, Faridea Appolis points angrily at the holes in the roof. Pipes, wrapped in silver insulation, run down the yellow walls to her sink and bathroom.
"They just knocked holes in my roof for the geyser. There was no...
7 June 2013
(News)
Ongoing incidents of xenophobic violence in South Africa have raised concerns about the safety of foreigners in that country, with the government being criticised for dismissing the fact that there is a real problem.
In the past few weeks there have a number of unrelated, xenophobic attacks across South Africa and human rights groups have warned that this is part of an ongoing problem.
Last month...
7 June 2013
(News)
Xenophobia attacks in South Africa have not ended, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said on Friday.
"It has been five years since [2008, when] co-ordinated attacks exploded across the country and led to the deaths of 64 people and the displacement of hundreds of thousands more," the head of LHR's strategic litigation unit, David Cote, said in a statement.
"Although the violence...
7 June 2013
(News)
Xenophobia attacks not over
Xenophobia attacks in South Africa have not ended, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) have said.
“It has been five years since (2008, when) coordinated attacks exploded across the country and led to the deaths of 64 people and the displacement of hundreds of thousands more,” the head of LHR’s strategic litigation unit, David Cote, said today.
“...
4 June 2013
(News)
One in two South Africans wants foreign migrants to carry their IDs on them at all times and 63 percent of citizens want electrified fences on the country’s borders.
Half of the population also feel that migrants without the required documentation should never receive police protection and 14 percent believe that migrants, regardless of their legal status, enter the country with the...
30 May 2013
(News)
Chairperson,
Chairperson of the Select Committee on Social Services Mrs RN Rasmeni MP
National Council of Provinces MPs
Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Fatima Chohan MP
Last weekend, under the theme Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance, the African Union and member states marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).
Many will recall the words of...
20 May 2013
(News)
The arms deal commission has been accused of intimidating witnesses by demanding to know how they obtained their documents. The commission warned witnesses that it would not accept unlawfully obtained evidence and that they must state whether their information was classified.
The commission - which was set up by President Jacob Zuma to probe the controversial multibillion-rand arms procurement...