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Xenophobia in South Africa: state’s complicity with gangs and vigilantes is threatening its ability to govern

Marches, Mozambicans murdered, state-sponsored evacuations, a nationally televised presidential address. Anti-immigrant mobilisation has again drawn the world’s attention to South Africa. The ...
Opinion

South Africa’s minibus taxi industry has lessons for policymakers on how informal systems work

Two recent books draw on more than a decade of research into South Africa’s minibus taxi industry. A Fork in the Road? The Formalisation of South Africa’s Minibus Taxi Industry and Blood on the Tar, ...
CNN

‘Leave or return in a coffin’: The threat driving migrants out of South Africa

For months, anti-migrant rhetoric had been building across South Africa. Then it reached Kaunga Nyirenda’s doorstep. In early June, two men gave the Malawian gardener, who lives in a Johannesburg ...