Immigration
Gauteng cuts funding for non-South African social workers
Non-profits will no longer receive provincial funding for immigrant workers, a move organisations say “goes against their very ethics and morals”
By Seth Thorne
News | 1 June 2026
Xenophobic attacks killed four people in Addo. A year later, anti-immigrant sentiment is rising again
There have been no arrests for the murder of Juane September or for the immigrants killed in revenge attacks
Brief | 28 May 2026
Asylum seeker appeal backlog rises to 161,000 cases
In about 90,000 cases the applicants’ whereabouts are unknown
Parliament | 27 May 2026
Government scrambles to deal with anti-immigration protests
Ministers convened a “high-level” meeting at the Union Buildings on Monday
News | 26 May 2026
Mangaung shutdown turns to looting of immigrant-owned shops
Over 140 people arrested
Brief | 26 May 2026
“An African cannot be a foreigner in Africa”
In St George’s Cathedral on Africa Day activists called out Afrophobia, saying immigrants are fighting for the same dignity as marginalised South Africans
Brief | 25 May 2026
Tensions high as March and March supporters protest in Bellville
“March and March pretends to oppose only undocumented migration, but in practice, it fuels hostility and violence,” said activist groups in a statement
News | 23 May 2026
Legally in SA but scared to go home: 150 immigrants camping at Durban Home Affairs
People driven from their neighbourhoods by anti-immigrant groups have spent five days moving between a police station, a church centre and Home Affairs
News | 22 May 2026
More than 57,000 people deported from South Africa last year
The Department of Home Affairs is clamping down on illegal immigration
Chart by The Outlier. Text by GroundUp Staff.
Charts | 22 May 2026