The South African Civil Society Information Service
A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
Loren Landau -
More than a year ago, the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) requested that the Human Rights Commission (HRC) host public hearings to hold leaders accountable for not addressing xenophobia, hate speech, violence, and threats to human dignity. But CoRMSA was told that the HRC’s agenda was set for the year and that they would see what they could do. Clearly they have not done enough.
Over the past week, South Africa has been shaken by anti-foreigner violence...
Black immigrants in South Africa have been bearing the brunt of unfair discrimination for some time. Timechanging have produced a three-part documentary series showing that the brutality of the recent attacks against immigrants in the townships of Gauteng are really the tip of the iceberg in a long saga of hardship and humiliation that black foreigners in South Africa, especially Zimbabweans, face. See South Africa: The New Apartheid (Part 2) here. See South Africa: The New Apartheid (Part...
