by Jaclyn Modise | Sep 16, 2026 | Front Page, Events, News
Dr. Balkissa Daouda Diallo (Postdoctoral Fellow, African Centre for Migration & Society) presented her research on the emergence of informal migration governance and competing mobility interests at the subnational level in Africa. Drawing on comparative evidence...
by Jaclyn Modise | Sep 15, 2026 | Front Page, News
Dr Lucy Khofi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand. Her interdisciplinary scholarship bridges public health and medical anthropology, connecting academic research with policy and...
by Jaclyn Modise | Sep 15, 2026 | Front Page, News, Op-Ed
A new Business Day opinion piece by Professor and Senior Researcher (University of Pretoria) Dr Adekeye Adebajo examines the wave of Afrophobia that swept through South Africa’s higher education sector in 2026, and the troubling hostility directed at foreign...
by Jaclyn Modise | Sep 11, 2026 | Front Page, News
Today, ACMS’s Reabetswe Maputla (Research Assistant, Xenowatch) joined the commemoration dialogue in Pretoria. The DDPA remains a landmark framework for confronting racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance. But discussions on migration,...
by Jaclyn Modise | Sep 11, 2026 | Front Page, News
Govt steps up immigration controls as tensions rise. Prof. Jo Vearey (Associate Professor & Co-Director, African Centre for Migration & Society, Wits University): “The IMC’s messaging is not firm enough. Home Affairs dysfunction is why people wait...
