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Racism & xenophobia
RSS FeedSouth Africa: Tension at ET trial
2012-01-31, Issue 568
The trial of murdered rightwing leader Eugene Terre'Blanche resumed in the Ventersdorp Magistrate's Court on 30 January. Just before lunch there was a standoff between AWB supporters attending the trial and black residents over the singing of Bobbeja...
South Sudan: Economic migrants battle xenophobia
2012-01-31, Issue 568
There are about one million Ugandans living in South Sudan, according to the Kampala City Traders’ Association (KCTA). But life is not easy for the Ugandan traders who supply South Sudan with many essential goods. On a side road at the market, a Sout...
South Africa: Student anti-racism poster causes a stir
2012-02-02, Issue 568
The Democratic Alliance Students Organisation (DASO) recently released a controversial poster as part of their anti-racism campaign. The 'In OUR future, you wouldn't look twice' poster shows a naked mixed-race couple embracing. The poster has caused ...
Ethiopia: Israeli school bus driver recorded spewing racist slurs at Ethiopian children
2012-01-23, Issue 566
As thousands of Israelis have been protesting racism directed at Ethiopian Israelis recently, a new recording revealed Wednesday an Israeli school bus driver in Jerusalem spewing racist slurs at schoolgirls of Ethiopian origin. 'People tell you that ...
Africa: Right-wing gunman kills two Africans in Italy
2011-12-14, Issue 563
An Italian man has killed two African street sellers and wounded three others in an apparent racist shooting rampage in the city of Florence before committing suicide, police said. Gianluca Casseri, 50, who Italian officials described as a right-wing...
South Africa: Xenophobia at public hospitals
2011-12-12, Issue 562
'I must admit that hospitals always remind me that I am living far away from my country, that I am not welcome. The nurses do not even bother to hide it. It is the same scenario every time I go alone or with my small child. Whenever I get up in the m...
South Africa: Xenophobia is still alive
2011-12-12, Issue 562
Every once in while, xenophobia against men and women from other African countries living in South Africa hits the headlines. Recently, there were threats in Alexander Township, and not too long ago, Somali businesses were the target. Yet, what’s mis...
South Africa: Russell Tribunal calls for Israeli sanctions
2011-11-08, Issue 557
After sitting in Cape Town at the weekend, where it heard evidence from a range of witnesses, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine declared that Israel was guilty of practising apartheid and called for it to be isolated. The tribunal called on world gov...
Ghana: Seafood restaurant denies 'whites only' policy
2011-11-06, Issue 556
An Italian worker at a restaurant in Ghana under investigation for allegedly operating a 'whites only' policy has told the BBC it was a misunderstanding. Marco Ranaldi said he made 'a joke' about the racial profile of members of the Atlantic Lobsters...
South Africa: Terre'Blanche murder trial enters second week
2011-10-17, Issue 552
The Eugene Terre'Blanche murder trial was expected to enter its second week in the high court sitting in Ventersdorp on Monday. Last week, seven witnesses took the stand. Five of them testified that the two farmworkers accused of killing the Afrikane...
South Africa: Govt. devoted to uprooting xenophobia
2011-09-20, Issue 549
South Africa remains committed to resolving and stamping out the recurring problem of xenophobia in all its forms wherever it manifests itself within the Republic. This was the message from Minister for Public Service and Administration, Mr Richard B...
South Africa: The ebony ceiling and affirmative action
2011-09-13, Issue 547
The South African Civil Society Information Service points to two reports that find that whites dominate management positions in South Africa and that white people continue to be appointed and promoted in empowering positions in the workplace while b...
South Africa: Malema found guilty of hate speech
2011-09-15, Issue 547
A South African court has found Julius Malema, the fireband leader of the youth brigade of the country’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), guilty of hate speech. The court ordered the youth leader to pay costs for singing an apartheid-era song ...
South Africa: Oslo killer copied from SA blog
2011-07-26, Issue 542
Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik is reported to have copied several ideas from a right-wing South African website when he compiled his 1,518-page 'manifesto'. Breivik borrowed liberally from several sources in writing his rambling ideas...
South Africa: Government gets lowest rating on xenophobia
2011-07-05, Issue 538
In a week that saw two Somali traders shot dead in Cape Town and two more in Port Elizabeth, the South African government's handling of xenophobia received the lowest possible rating in a report by the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Monitoring ...
South Africa: ‘Xenophobic’ committee head lashed
2011-07-04, Issue 537
Opposition MPs and Parliament guests were shocked as the chairwoman of the parliamentary oversight committee on home affairs, Maggie Maunye, implied that foreigners flocking to the country were soaking up resources and preventing South Africans from ...
South Africa: Government must act against xenophobic violence
African Centre for Migration and Society Statement
2011-06-19, Issue 535
'A nation‐wide escalation of threats and violence against foreign traders in townships and informal settlements is spreading across South Africa. The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) calls for the South African government, in collaborati...
DRC: The Belgian Colour Bar
2011-05-12, Issue 529
The blog Africa is a Country features a new documentary called Colour Bar. It is the story of Roland Gust, who was born to a Congolese mother and a Belgian father. He grew up in Congo, believing he was white until his family decided to return to Belg...
South Africa: ‘Liberation songs deserve own monument’
2011-05-03, Issue 527
A monument should be built for liberation songs and it should have its own precinct. This is according to Wally Mongane Serote, the poet, author and former MK soldier testifying in the hate speech trial in the Johannesburg High Court against ANC Yout...
South Africa: Malema 'threat' to AfriForum protest
2011-04-12, Issue 525
AfriForum youth leader Ernst Roets on Monday (11 April) testified that ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema promised his delegation a repeat of the Shell House massacre if they marched to his offices to complain about the singing of the song Dubul' ...
South Africa: Brothers in court after race abuse claims
2011-04-14, Issue 525
Ravensmead brothers who are alleged to have subjected three black workers at a factory in Blackheath to sexual, verbal and physical abuse appeared in court today (14 April) amid high drama. About a hundred people protested outside the Blue Downs Magi...
Mozambique: Exchange programme addresses xenophobia
2011-03-15, Issue 521
Eight South Africans and 10 Mozambicans, aged between 18 to 25, gathered in Maputo in mid-December to give feedback on a pilot exchange programme of volunteers between the two countries. The Southern Africa Trust and AFS Interculture South Africa est...
South Africa: ANC raps Manuel and dissidents
2011-03-14, Issue 520
The ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) has rapped Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel over the knuckles for his open letter criticising government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi for his remarks on coloureds.Manuel wrote an open letter to Manyi f...
South Africa: Manuel slams Manyi
2011-03-02, Issue 519
Government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi on Wednesday said he would not comment on an open letter by Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel in which he was labelled a 'racist'. In the open letter, which was published in the Mercury newspaper, Manuel hit...
South Africa: Author's comments spark outrage
2010-12-07, Issue 509
Award-winning South African author Annelie Botes recently revealed in an interview with the Rapport newspaper that she dislikes and fears black South Africans. Her comments have sparked outrage and debate. Commentaries like 'Hands off Annelie Botes' ...
South Africa: Apartheid in post-apartheid South Africa
2010-11-23, Issue 507
'On October 24th, I went to Entebbe Airport to catch a South African Airways flight via Johannesburg to Namibia. Airline officials said I needed a transit visa through South Africa...Under the new rules, passengers are required to disembark, enter th...
Benin: Russia elects first African
2010-10-14, Issue 500
Jean Gregoire Sagbo is Russia's newly elected councilman of Novozavidovo, a rural community about 65 miles north of Moscow. Russia is still entrenched in the enigma of racism and plagued with systemic violence. But among the 10,000 residents here, 48...
South Africa: Socio-economic problems behind xenophobia
2010-09-30, Issue 498
Socio-economic problems are the major cause of xenophobia in South Africa, the United Nations refugee agency said in Johannesburg on Wednesday. 'No society is xenophobic by nature, these attacks were caused by lack of development,' UN High Commission...
South Africa: exploring popular attitudes toward foreigners
2010-09-10, Issue 495
This report suggests that the racist attacks that occurred in South Africa in 2008 were rooted in the micro-politics of townships and informal settlements. The author argues that violence was used as a means to drive foreigners out of South Africa an...
South Africa: Coming together to end xenophobic violence
2010-08-06, Issue 493
Following the incredible feeling of African unity experienced during the World Cup, most of us were alarmed by rumours of the targeting of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in some pockets of our communities post the final. It stood in stark cont...
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