Category: Xenophobia

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

From xenophobia to authoritarian politics

This year marks 50 years since the 1976 youth uprising, a turning point in South Africa’s struggle against apartheid. While triggered by the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in schools, it would result in the creation of a new social force that birthed new movements of resistance and emancipatory politics. The anniversary serves as […]

Is Afrophobia a simplistic framing? 

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 […]

March Separately, Strike Together: Xenophobia, Working-Class Fragmentation, and  Strategic Crossroads

500 Migrants outside the Malawian consulate Woodmead, Johannesburg In townships and informal settlements across South Africa, violence against foreign nationals is no longer episodic. It is increasingly organised and spoken about in ways that normalise it. Groups such as March and March have become associated with mobilisation that targets migrants in the name of jobs, […]

MAYOR’S REFUGEE DECEIT FLAMES ETHEKWINI TENSIONS

Siyafana Sonke Action Campaign condemns the utterances by Ethekwini Mayor, Cyril Xaba, feeding into the disinformation campaign targeting vulnerable migrant and refugee communities. According to Mayor Xaba’s comments in a recent podcast, he informed the interviewer that displaced refugees were demanding ‘free housing’, to the detriment of South Africans. The Siyafana Sonke campaign will not […]
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