Immigrants
Cape Town News
Dead rise to 62 in South Africa violence.
The death toll in the anti-immigrant violence that rocked South Africa in May has risen to at least 62 according to police sources. Earlier the figure had been given as 56.
The victims were mainly fr...
Cape Town News
Anti-immigrant violence in Cape Town.
Over 10,000 immigrants in the Cape Town area have been displaced from their homes by anti-immigrant violence, which erupted in the city on 22 May. Most of the victims are now sheltering in special
Cape Town News
Anti-immigrant violence spreads to Cape Town.
The wave of anti-immigrant violence that is sweeping across South Africa reached Cape Town on 22 May. Mobs attacked Somalis and Zimbabweans and looted their shops and homes in DuNoon township north of...
Cape Town News
Mbeki condemns anti-immigrant violence.
South African president Thabo Mbeki has condemned as
Cape Town News
The death on 2 November of a Zimbabwean asylum seeker outside the home affairs offices at the Foreshore has rekindled debate about the treatment of refugees in the Mother City. The deceased, Adonis Mu...
Cape Town News
Somalis in Cape Town attacked.
Yet another Somali citizen has been murdered in the latest in a series of attacks apparently targeting the refugee community in Cape Town.
South African Broadcasting Corporation reports that on 7 Se...
Cape Town News
Cape Town to uphold refugees rights.
The city of Cape Town has made a formal pledge to uphold the rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the metropolis and help them integrate into society. Many of the people who are seeking asylum hav...
