South Africa accelerates migration policies implementation with new courts and repatriation measures
South Africa continues to attract large numbers of migrants from neighbouring and other African countries, drawn by its relatively larger economy and labour market. However, long-standing challenges such as high domestic unemployment, strained public services and periodic outbreaks of xenophobic violence have intensified political pressure for tighter border controls and stricter migration enforcement.
Terrified Malawians, Zimbabweans flee South Africa following widespread protests against foreign workers
The South African police have deployed hundreds of officers in cities including Johannesburg in Gauteng province and Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province to prepare for potential violence.
South Africa acknowledges migration threats to job security but denies xenophobic accusations
DIRCO Minister Ronald Lamola has engaged counterparts from several African countries, including Ghana and Nigeria, to brief them on developments and reaffirm South Africa’s commitment to protecting the rights of all people living in the country, said the department.
Identity crisis: South African Blacks risk isolation or retaliatory xenophobic attacks as Ghana petitions African Union
Attacks targeting African nationals undermine “the shared principles of African solidarity, brotherhood and continental unity to which all member states of the African Union are committed,” it added.
Dismissed and ostracised: Intriguing story of America’s trailblazing Back Dr Margaret Morgan Lawrence who revolutionised child psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the 1940s were overwhelmingly white, male and oriented toward treating wealthy private patients in Manhattan consulting rooms. The dominant theoretical frameworks were Freudian, focused on individual psychosexual development, with little consideration of social context, racism, or structural oppression.
