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Civil society and government can learn key lessons from the humanitarian responses to the displacement of thousands of people in South Africa as a result of attacks against foreigners in 2008, according to this report by the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. This report…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] Inka von Sternenfels listens intently to the guide along with other LGBT members of the LGBTQI Donor Study Tour of South Africa. Photo by Tracy Gary.[/caption] By Heather Cassell Anyone who knows Jody Cole, owner of Wild Rainbow African Safaris, know…

By Wilson Johwa. THE government may have chosen to deny the existence of xenophobic violence but was better prepared for it than in 2008, says Gerald Kraak, South African head of the US foundation Atlantic Philanthropies. After the 2008 attacks it commissioned a study whose…

by KARABO KEEPILE The South African Human Rights Commission has balked at proposed legislation designed to equip police crime-fighters with a DNA database, arguing that a number of its provisions may be unconstitutional. In a public hearing in Parliament on Tuesday, the commission argued that…

Commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the OTHER Foundation, this report gives an overview of what it means to be gay and African in the early part of the 21st century. The report shows that homophobia in Africa is rife – expressed through legislation that criminalises…

Johannesburg, South Africa When I arrived here on Monday after eighteen hours in transit, I was greeted by the horrific image on the front page of that morning’s Star, of a refugee hunted down by a mob and burned alive, in a grim imitation of…

  'Denialism has tarnished the image of SA's health sector' by SIPOKAZI MAPOSA South Africa needs to have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to examine the way in which the government has dealt with the HIV/Aids pandemic over the past decade, to help rebuild…

This report, funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, presents research conducted for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) by the Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand and funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of…

by Franny Rabkin Johannesburg — LAWYERS for President Kgalema Motlanthe told the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria yesterday that an application to interdict him from giving presidential pardons to people who had committed politically motivated crimes was "misconceived". The urgent interim interdict application was…

South Africa became a democracy in 1994. The political negotiations which led to democracy were accompanied by high levels of violence as elements of the “old order” sought to destabilise the political transition. A sinister, unidentified “Third Force” promoted violence between opposing political movements and…