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Migrant activist Sharon Ekambaram thinks of forced removals during apartheid when she imagines what will happen when Zimbabwe Exemption Permits expire.
The new Lawyers for Human Rights handbook, ‘Rights and Realities of Forcibly Displaced Children and Youth in South Africa’.
Several Members of Parliament want the Department of Home Affairs to answer questions over statelessness, migrants and refugees.
Until recently, Tapiwa Munda made a decent living selling flowers in Johannesburg. But fears around his legal status in South Africa have led him to return to his native Zimbabwe. “It is painful to leave a place you have heavily invested in, and to be forced back into a country you fled because of corruption, dictatorship and an economy that is regressing,” he said.
United Nations special rapporteurs have written to International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor, giving the South African government 30 days to respond to their joint communication on allegations of xenophobia and attacks on foreigners in the country.