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More than 200 Refugees Now Sheltering in Stella Park

Refugee Community Che Guevara Road Camp Durban17 September 2026

Today around half of the refugees who had been living on Che Guevara Road since 22 May boarded buses to travel to Lindela, the notorious prison used to hold undocumented migrants prior to deportation. They have been given no clarity at all on what their future will now hold, or on what, if any, plans […]

The Biko Inquest: ‘We carry our history with us’

Ashwin Desai11 September 2026

THE ROAD FROM LIBERATION TO DISILLUSIONMENT Reflecting on detention during apartheid and Steve Biko’s enduring influence, Ashwin Desai connects the past to anxieties about corruption, political radicalism and South Africa’s democratic future. ‘Our pains will petrify when our gestures no longer make sense. But our tears, brother, who will take them on himself?’ – (Edmond […]

PRESS STATEMENT – Siyafana Sonke Action Campaign

Siyafana Sonke Campaign10 September 2026

For further comment, contact: Yeshelen Govender – 083 417 4983 Lubna Nadvi – 083 786 4918 SIYAFANA SONKE ACTION CAMPAIGN | siyafanasonkeaction@gmail.com

March and March Plan to Attack Refugees Again on Thursday

Refugee Community Che Guevara Road Camp Durban9 September 2026

Last Thursday March and March attacked us – all documented refugees – who have been forced to live on Che Guevara Road since 22 May. We spent the whole winter living outside on the road after being forced from our homes and having our businesses seized or destroyed by fascist mobs. Two of us have […]

Violence at Che Guevara Road: March and March and eThekwini Municipality must account for Section 4 permits on 3rd and 4th September 2026

Siyafana Sonke Campaign7 September 2026

On the 3rd of September 2026, members of the March and March movement crossed Che Guevara Road in Umbilo, Durban, and directly confronted a community of documented refugees and asylum seekers who have been sheltering on the pavement outside the Department of Home Affairs Refugee Reception Office for approximately three months. What followed was hours […]

PI Briefing | No. 26 | Fortress Europe

Progressive International1 September 2026

From Mauritania to Libya, Europe is externalizing its border: funding detention, surveillance and armed violence against people on the move — giving even greater ground to the extreme right back at home. In the Progressive International’s twenty-sixth Briefing of 2026, we draw on new Reactionary International research to map Fortress Europe: a border regime stretching […]

FROM HUMANITARIANISM TO ORGANISED SOLIDARITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST AFROPHOBIA

Keep Left20 August 2026

Claire Ceruti and Luke Sinwell Families sleep outside embassies and consulates wrapped in blankets against the winter cold. Beside them are plastic bags, suitcases and the few possessions they managed to carry from homes they may never return to. They are commonly described as people “returning home” or being “repatriated”. But these phrases conceal a […]

Is Afrophobia a simplistic framing?

Socialist Voice Newsletter of the Marxist Group of Namibia18 August 2026

A left-wing view does not say xenophobia in South Africa is “naturally” Africanist or that “black” people are inherently united. It says xenophobia is a product of racial capitalism, township political economy, state rhetoric, and social fragmentation — and its racialised pattern of targets reflects material conditions, not essential identities. The term “Afrophobia” is analytically […]

The Politics of Division Has Entered Our Homes

Luke Sinwell15 July 2026

According to community reports, a woman was raped during an apparent housebreaking in Thembelihle this past weekend. A criminal case has been opened and the survivor received medical attention. This is not only the story of a terrible crime. It is a warning about the direction in which our communities are being pushed. Too often, […]

Lessons of 1976: ‘Be united to face the common enemy’

Noor Nieftagodien10 July 2026

On 30 June 2026, a few hundred people marched through Soweto as part of the broader campaign of xenophobia that in recent weeks has swept across some parts of the country. In the same month, the country marked the 50th anniversary of the historic 1976 uprising, when tens of thousands of Black students nationally mobilised against […]

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