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Racism & xenophobia
RSS FeedGlobal: Nobel laureate slammed for racist spewings
2007-10-18, Issue 324
A Nobel prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed Africans and Europeans had different levels of intelligence is no longer welcome to deliver a lecture at London's Science Museum, the museum said. James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-dis...
South Africa: Government takes practical steps to combat xenophobia
2007-08-03, Issue 315
Muslah Ahmed, a Somali asylum seeker, had been in South Africa's KwaNobuhle Township barely a week when he became the victim of an attack that left him burnt, disfigured and severely traumatized. On 1 July 2007, he and three of his countrymen were se...
Uganda: Forest protest sparks racial violence
2007-04-13, Issue 299
Uganda's capital, Kampala, erupted into racial violence this week, with three people killed during a protest against government plans to allow Ugandan-Asian industrialists to grow sugar cane on protected forest land. In scenes described as reminiscen...
Global: Rising racial discrimination undermines development goals, UN warns
2007-03-22, Issue 296
Although the world has made significant strides in the battle against racial discrimination in recent decades, recent reports point to “a disturbing rise” in incidents of a practice that constitutes a formidable obstacle to national development, Unit...
Global: Migrants facing race hate in UK
2007-03-16, Issue 295
A family of seven Somali migrants who moved into a new house in North London five years ago has barely gone 48 hours without suffering some sort of racial abuse....
South Africa: Somalis are 'easy prey'
2007-03-08, Issue 294
On February 12, a young South African man was accidentally shot outside the Bafana Bafana spaza shop in Motherwell township in Port Elizabeth’s Nelson Mandela Municipality. Police claim he was shot by Somali shopkeeper Hassan Alow. Alow said thieves ...
South Africa: Fallen Anti-Apartheid Icon Leaves Behind Inequality
2007-02-08, Issue 290
Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Adelaide Tambo's struggle for equality in South Africa has paid off in areas of political participation, but the economy still remains in the hands of the country's white minority, say researchers and campaigners....
Botswana: Bushmen return home despite police presence
2007-01-24, Issue 288
A group of forty Bushmen have managed to return to their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve this weekend, despite a heavy police presence and attempts to persuade them to stay in the relocation camps. All the Bushmen in the convoy were allowe...
South Afria: Skilled foreigners tied up in red tape
2006-11-15, Issue 278
Businesses which need foreign language-speakers for call centres are reluctant to employ foreigners because of the work permit process. A number of South African firms refuse to employ skilled foreigners because of nightmarish immigration bureaucracy...
East Africa: Xenophobia and the EA federation
2006-11-01, Issue 276
There is a new wave of xenophobia that is slowly creeping into the East African region that if not nipped in the bud, could undermine the ongoing efforts at political federation, the much cherished goal of our region. The timing of this xenophobia is...
South Africa: HSRC's Habib Denied U.S. Entry
2006-10-25, Issue 275
Prominent academic Prof Adam Habib was last week denied entry into the US at New York's John F Kennedy airport. He told Business Day yesterday (24 October 2006) that he was still mystified as to why he had been refused entry into the US last Friday. ...
Spain: Groundbreaking lawsuit challenges racial profiling by police
2006-09-26, Issue 271
In the first-ever legal challenge to racial profiling filed with an international human rights tribunal, a coalition of advocacy groups have submitted an application to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, seeking to halt racial profiling by po...
South Africa: How obsession with race stops SA from meeting its challenges
2006-09-20, Issue 270
Race remains our national obsession — even when we talk of it in code. And so issues which clearly reflect our racial divides are more likely to be seen by all of us, and to command our attention: witness last week’s dispute about company employment ...
South Africa: Some of the reasons why Xenophobia persist
2006-09-14, Issue 269
Dear Madam, Open Letter to the Minister of Justice on xenophobic attacks against Somali and other Refugees Dear Minister, We are making this an open letter not to insult your powerful and respectable office; we are making it an open letter because we...
Global: Rationalising The Irrational, Racism and The Fallacy of Personal Experience
2006-09-11, Issue 269
Yet, as it turns out, to generalize about entire groups of people based upon one's personal (and by definition limited) experiences with persons from those groups, is illegitimate on several levels....
Global: How beautiful was my colony
2006-09-11, Issue 269
A meaning of colonialism offered in the new edition of a French dictionary has stirred another debate on how France views its past. In its edition that appeared this month, the widely consulted French dictionary Le Petit Robert defines colonialism as...
Saudi Arabia: Saudi-Born Chadians Face Increasing Discrimination Under New Policies
2006-09-11, Issue 269
Saudi Arabia should immediately end its discrimination against its 100,000 Chadian residents, most of whom were born in the kingdom but are increasingly denied the rights to basic education and emergency healthcare, Human Rights Watch has said. Saudi...
Global: CNN's Vice President of Racism and associates
2006-09-04, Issue 268
Move over Bill, Chris, Michelle, Rush, Sean, & Company. Make way for a worthy challenger to the title of leader of the racist rant pack holding court weekday evenings on his hourly show on CNN....
Global: Why does ethnic diversity undermine public goods provision?
2006-09-04, Issue 268
"Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?: An Experimental Approach" was written by Jeremy Weinstein, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, and Non-Residen...
South Africa: Complaints of racial divisions in the newsroom
FXI letter to the executive staff of Media24 publishing group
2006-09-04, Issue 268
"Mr Lewis had been an employee of Media24, working as a page sub for certain of its Cape Town publications. He has complained of racial divisions in the newsroom in which he worked and of various forms of racism in the company. We do not wish to enga...
Middle-East: Israel on the Slide
2006-08-30, Issue 267
In the aftermath of the Lebanon disaster you can open up the Israeli press, particularly the Hebrew language editions, and find fierce assaults on the country's elites from left, right and center. The overall panorama is one of chickens of all ages c...
South Africa: Feet washed in apartheid apology
2006-08-28, Issue 267
A prominent South African clergyman and opponent of apartheid has told how an apartheid-era minister washed his feet in a gesture of contrition. Rev Frank Chikane survived a murder attempt in the 1980s. He said he was grateful for the gesture made ea...
US: Racial Profiling Led to Detention, Harassment at Airport
2006-08-30, Issue 267
Middle Eastern, South Asian and Muslim passengers say they are increasingly victims of racial profiling and are being detained and harassed at airports....
SOUTH AFRICA: Xenophobia has an economic cost
2006-08-24, Issue 266
A dangerous tide of xenophobia in South Africa, which stereotypes people from the rest of the continent as criminals and competitors for scarce jobs, is obscuring the positive impact immigrants are making, according to the government and advocacy gro...
Middle-East: Israeli Apartheid
Bruce A. Dixon
2006-08-22, Issue 266
Imagine, if you will, a modern apartheid state with first, second and eleventh class citizens, all required to carry identification specifying their ethnic origin. First class citizens are obliged to serve in the armed forces, kept on ready reserve s...
Global: All types of inequality are not created equal
2006-07-24, Issue 265
This report examines the complexities of defining inequality within and between countries. Using ethnic and gender disparities as case examples, the author argues that inequality can lead to short and medium term economic growth and development, but ...
South Africa: 'Come home to Africa in 2010'
2006-07-10, Issue 263
President Thabo Mbeki's speech at the ceremony unveiling the emblem for South Africa's 2010 Fifa World Cup, in Berlin on 7 July 2006 spoke of the importance of the tournament to the continent. He said 'the 2010 Soccer World Cup belongs to the many Af...
South Africa: Race tensions split staff and students
2006-07-11, Issue 263
Students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) medical school believe they are racially victimised while staff counter that personality clashes and academic rigour are being misconstrued as racism. Over the past three years escalating racial te...
South Africa: Racism and mental illness
2006-07-12, Issue 263
Racism and mental illness have a long, sad history in South Africa, with the effects of Apartheid still painfully apparent. A spotlight was placed upon the issue of racism, at the World Racism Conference held in South Africa last year. Amongst other ...
South Africa: White farmer trial for shooting black boy
2006-07-10, Issue 263
If the tearful pleas of the man who pulled the trigger are to be believed, it was no more than a tragic accident. When Marcel Nel, a white South African farmer, shot at a dark shape rustling in the long grass at dusk on his neighbour's plot, he thoug...
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