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OP-ED: The other violence: While South Africa watched the marches, the state built a camp

OP-ED: The other violence: While South Africa watched the marches, the state built a camp

by NicholasS | Jul 6, 2026 | News, Op-Ed, Regulation of Law & Policy, Video

By Prof. Jo Vearey and Dr Rebecca Walker, Daily Maverick We are watching a de facto refugee camp form under our noses, assembled not by the chaos of mobs but by the order of officials with stamps and clipboards and the quiet confidence of those who know that no one is...
Who Gets to Belong? The Quiet Exclusion of Care in South Africa’s New Immigration White Paper

Who Gets to Belong? The Quiet Exclusion of Care in South Africa’s New Immigration White Paper

by NicholasS | May 28, 2026 | News, Podcasts

John Maytham speaks to Dr Rebecca Walker from the African Centre for Migration and Society at Wits University about concerns that South Africa’s revised immigration white paper could deepen exclusion and undermine access to healthcare, on the Afternoon Drive. [This...
OPINION | The Quiet Exclusion of Care in SA’s New Immigration White Paper

OPINION | The Quiet Exclusion of Care in SA’s New Immigration White Paper

by | May 28, 2026 | News, Op-Ed

By Rebecca Walker, Thea de Gruchy, Sharon Ekambaram and Marlise Richter South Africa’s latest immigration white paper was approved just six weeks after public submissions closed. Collective Voices for Health Access reviewed 18 of those submissions and identified...
Cabinet approves revised immigration white paper

Cabinet approves revised immigration white paper

by NicholasS | Apr 8, 2026 | News, Regulation of Law & Policy, Video

This panel discussion was originally aired on Newzroom Afrika, on 4 April 2026. South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister, Dr Leon Schreiber, has welcomed the cabinet’s approval of the Revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection. Cabinet’s...
Two Migration Reforms, One State: Institutional Coherence and the Future of Labour Migration Governance in South Africa

Two Migration Reforms, One State: Institutional Coherence and the Future of Labour Migration Governance in South Africa

by | Mar 30, 2026 | Blogs, Front Page, News, Regulation of Law & Policy

By Kabiri N. Bule (PhD) South Africa’s migration system is under growing pressure to change. Administrative weakness, legal uncertainty, unemployment anxiety, and rising political demands for visible control have made reform unavoidable. But the state is not...

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