Topic: Immigration

Operation Dudula blocks access to clinics, violating court order

Witness testimony plus a visit by GroundUp to clinics confirms this. Clinic security guards are also blocking access to immigrants.

By Kimberly Mutandiro

Feature | 24 November 2025

In photos: Wynberg main road — a safe haven for immigrant families

People from the diaspora call this old part of Cape Town home

By David Harrison

Photo Essay | 21 November 2025

After the fire: Wingfield refugees wish to stay put

A refugee group, left homeless after their tent burnt down, still intend to oppose their eviction that will be heard in court next year

Text by Matthew Hirsch. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

Brief | 7 November 2025

In photos: Fire at Wingfield refugee camp

Hundreds of refugees, who were already facing eviction, have lost their shelter

Text by Matthew Hirsch. Photos by Brenton Geach.

Photo Essay | 6 November 2025

Call to scrap passports between Lesotho and SA

Lesotho’s opposition Basotho Action Party has launched a campaign to ease cross-border travel using national identity cards

By Sechaba Mokhethi

News | 23 October 2025

Death toll rises from Makhado bus crash

Relatives gather to identify the bodies of the dead

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 21 October 2025

Law clinics flooded as Home Affairs blocks asylum seekers from the system

Refugee offices are still not processing new applications unless immigrants have a transit visa, despite a court ruling that this is unconstitutional

By Zora Hollie

News | 15 October 2025

Eviction case for hundreds of refugees to be heard in April

Government has spent millions on Wingfield and Paint City camps since 2020

By Matthew Hirsch

Brief | 13 October 2025

Lesotho permit: A lifeline for Basotho workers facing collapse of textile industry

Announcement comes weeks after hundreds of undocumented workers were arrested in SA

By Sechaba Mokhethi

News | 11 October 2025

Zimbabwe and Lesotho permits extended to May 2027

Helen Suzman Foundation urges Home Affairs minister to fast-track talks with the public over the future of the permits

By Joseph Chirume

Brief | 9 October 2025

Lesufi’s office fails to back up his claim about immigrants

The Gauteng Premier vowed to destroy informal settlements, claiming that most of their residents are undocumented immigrants

By Joseph Bracken

News | 11 September 2025

Eviction hearing looms for refugees in Bellville camp

The refugees have rejected repatriation to home countries or returning to South African communities

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 15 August 2025

After a decades-long struggle and a court order, Primrose Modisane finally has a birth certificate

Stateless since birth, she was called a “border hopper” by Home Affairs officials

By Tania Broughton

Law | 5 August 2025

Operation Dudula faces off against human rights organisations in “misguided” protest

Anti-immigration group wants to close down “unpatriotic” organisations

By Jan Bornman

News | 17 July 2025

City of Cape Town to evict refugees living at two emergency housing sites

About 160 refugees at Wingfield were among those who protested outside the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2019

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 8 July 2025

A taste of Somalia on the streets of Joburg

We visited a Somali-owned coffee shop in Mayfair which serves qaxwo and other Somali treats

Text by Jan Bornman. Photos by Ihsaan Haffejee.

News | 24 June 2025