July 18 2017 – SA Deputy Police Minister Bongani Mkongi, who warned SA not to “surrender” the country to foreign nationals, in an interview with EWN last Friday has been slated by the SA Human Rights’ Commission (SAHRC) ( yesterday) saying the utterances have the potential to fuel anti-immigrant sentiments. In a statement, the SAHRC said Mkongi’s statements could possibly worsen the scourge ... Read More »
Xenophobia Watch
Congolese woman gives birth in train after being turned away at 3 SA hospitals
June 07 2017 – FRANCINE Ngalula Kalala, the woman who gave birth at Park Station in the Joburg CBD, was allegedly turned away from three hospitals because of her asylum status.Last year, she and her husband Serge fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a central African country embroiled in civil strife that has claimed nearly 6 million lives, to ... Read More »
Parly cautions against using word ‘xenophobia’
12 July 2015 – SOUTH African media should stop using the word “xenophobia” because it implied South Africans harboured extreme hatred for foreign nationals, and using the word could spark attacks, the chairperson of the parliamentary committee set up to probe violence against foreigners said on last Friday. Speaking during a visit by the ad hoc committee to the Jeppe ... Read More »