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Senior Muslim police general survives assassination attempt days before commission testimony

One of South Africa’s most senior police officers, suspended Crime Intelligence Major General Feroz Khan, has survived an apparent assassination attempt in Johannesburg, just...

22 South African Muslim groups reject June 30 shutdown over xenophobia and vigilantism fears

A coalition of 22 South African Muslim organisations has rejected the planned June 30 “national shutdown” against undocumented immigrants, warning that the campaign risks...

Immigrants quietly sustain South Africa’s food system as hunger deepens

South Africa’s food crisis is often discussed in terms of rising prices, unemployment and mounting pressure on struggling households. Yet beneath these challenges lies...

Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and Operation Dudula: Vigilantes or voices of South Africa’s poor?

As South Africa approaches 30 June, a date promoted by the civic movement March and March as a deadline for undocumented migrants to leave...

US HIV funding cut could cost lives in South Africa, warns UN agency

The US decision to cut all HIV and AIDS funding to South Africa could cost lives, the head of the UN’s HIV agency has...

Rylands Cricket Club in pitched battle to save historic playing field amid community outcry

A growing dispute between Rylands Cricket Club, the City of Cape Town and Melomed Gatesville Private Hospital has placed one of the area’s most...

Gaza war refugee asks Durban court to halt immigration prosecution

A Palestinian man’s urgent application to halt criminal proceedings against him was heard at the Durban High Court on Friday, following his arrest for...

Muslim doctors aid migrant mothers and newborns in Durban as xenophobia crisis deepens

As freezing winter temperatures grip Durban, women are giving birth inside overcrowded tents surrounded by thousands of displaced migrants who fled their homes in...

From cartels to communities: The drug scourge reaching Muslim homes

South Africa's drug crisis is no longer confined to isolated communities or street-level dealing. Increasingly, it is being shaped by international cartel networks, digital...

What is a South African? The artificial identity behind anti-migrant hatred

As anti-migrant sentiment grows in South Africa, and as “foreigners” are increasingly blamed for crime, unemployment, poverty and social decline, Maulana Usamah Dockrat asks...

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