by Jaclyn Modise | Jun 5, 2026 | News
Professor Loren Landau (African Centre for Migration & Society) critiques the state’s role in linking immigration to South Africa’s social issues. “The state is now complicit in naturalising the association between immigration and social ills:...
by Jaclyn Modise | Jun 5, 2026 | News
‘Violence is not activism’: NatJoints talks tough on anti-foreigner mobs after xenophobic unrest. South Africa’s top law enforcement structure has issued the strongest rebuke yet by authorities to those inciting xenophobic violence. But critics say...
by Jaclyn Modise | Jun 5, 2026 | News
South Africa’s worsening xenophobia exposes a broken economic promise. As Afrophobic violence flares ahead of November’s local elections, political leaders are opting for cheap scapegoating over tackling deep structural decline and broken public utilities....
by Jaclyn Modise | Jun 5, 2026 | News
Professor Loren Landau (African Centre for Migration & Society / University of Oxford) on the Trump administration’s policy toward Afrikaners: He suspects it is intended as a message to two distinct audiences. “First, as a snub to South Africa and its...
by Jaclyn Modise | Jun 4, 2026 | News
Professor Loren Landau (African Centre for Migration & Society) shares a nuanced perspective: social media has amplified xenophobic rhetoric from various angles, but we cannot deny that there are legitimate concerns held by South Africans. He notes that even the...
