… Violence erupted in Johannesburg's Soweto and the east coast port city of Durban on Thursday, with several cars torched and small foreign-run stores looted. …
… Violence erupted in Johannesburg's Soweto and the east coast port city of Durban on Thursday, with several cars torched and small foreign-run stores looted. …
… There was another mass attack on Tuesday last week when 11 people -- including a pregnant woman -- were killed after gunmen stormed a homestead in a township in the eastern port city of Durban. …
… "We cannot be a country where people just pick up guns and start shooting at people at random." Last week, gunmen stormed a house party in a township in South Africa's eastern port city of Durban and killed 11 people, including a pregnant woman. …
… A shooting at a house party near Durban last week killed 11 people, while a series of women's bodies found near Johannesburg since July has renewed fear and anger over high rates of femicide.
Audio By VocalizeGunmen stormed a homestead in a township in South Africa's eastern port city of Durban, killing 11 people, the head of the provincial government and police said on Wednesday. …
… In Durban, South Africa, demand remains concentrated in nodes such as Umhlanga and La Lucia, where modern, secure and mixed-use environments continue to attract occupiers. …
… He had observed that Rotterdam city owns 70 per cent of Rotterdam Port; Shanghai Port is fully owned by the Shanghai municipality; Durban is owned by Durban city; Long Beach Port in California is 100 per cent owned by Long Beach city; and Antwerp is fully owned by the Antwerp cit …
… southern Africa summit By AFP August 17, 2026 09:25 (EAT) Add as a Preferred Source on Google Follow us Follow on Whatsapp Follow on Google Follow on Twitter South African Police Service (SAPS) officers stand guard as members of March and March Movement protest outside the Durban …
… This is the second consecutive Commonwealths to suffer a change of host after Durban also pulled out for the 2022 Games.India’s ambition to host the Olympics for the first time has been a driving factor behind Ahmedabad’s candidacy. …
South Africa's government withdrew an order on processing asylum applications after violence erupted in Johannesburg and Durban involving foreign nationals and anti-migrant locals, with cars torched and shops looted. The order, which followed a Constitutional Court ruling, led refugee offices to be overwhelmed and prompted the Home Affairs Department to cite public safety threats.
South Africa's government withdrew an order on processing asylum applications after violence erupted in Johannesburg and Durban involving foreign nationals and anti-migrant locals, with cars torched and shops looted. The order, which followed a Constitutional Court ruling, led refugee offices to be overwhelmed and prompted the Home Affairs Department to cite public safety threats.
South Africa's government withdrew an order directing refugee reception offices to process asylum applications after violence erupted in Johannesburg and Durban, with vehicles torched and foreign-run shops looted. The Home Affairs Department said the directive led to offices being overwhelmed and posed serious threats to public safety.
Two mass shootings in South Africa over the same weekend killed 28 people, including 18 at a tavern in Wedela, an area affected by illicit mining. The incidents have highlighted the country's high murder rate, with police statistics showing approximately 60 people killed daily on average.
Eight gunmen armed with assault rifles and pistols killed 17 people and wounded 15 others in a bar southwest of Johannesburg on Saturday, while a second shooting in Cape Town claimed 10 lives. Police said the shootings represent the latest criminal violence to hit the country.
South African police are searching for perpetrators after 27 people were killed in two separate shootings within hours of each other—17 at a tavern in Wedela township west of Johannesburg and 10 in Lwandle near Cape Town. The attacks, where suspects were reportedly armed with AK-47 rifles and pistols, underscore gang violence and organised crime that persist in South Africa despite government efforts.
Armed assailants stormed a homestead in KwaMakhutha township south of Durban, killing 11 people including a pregnant woman and wounding three others. The motive was unclear, but police said they were pursuing a "promising" lead.
Nairobi recorded one of the greatest improvements in prime office performance, with Grade A occupancy rising from 81.5 per cent in December 2025 to 84.8 per cent in June 2026, while prime rents remained stable at about Sh1,684 per square metre per month, according to Knight Frank's Africa Offices Market Dashboard report.
Mombasa and Lamu ports are expecting 55 vessel calls. The article also discusses the long-standing dispute over devolution of port and harbour management to coastal counties under the 2010 Constitution, which remains unresolved 16 years after its enactment.
About 300 anti-migrant protesters marched to the 46th SADC summit in Durban, calling on regional leaders to remove foreign nationals. The heavily policed demonstration was organized by a fringe anti-immigrant group amid weeks of protests that prompted tens of thousands of foreign nationals to flee South Africa.
Glasgow hosted the 2026 Commonwealth Games on a reduced budget of £160 million using existing venues, after Victoria withdrew in 2023 over mounting costs. Despite the slimmed-down 10-sport model, doubts persist about the event's future, though Ahmedabad is set to expand the programme to 15–17 sports for the centenary Games in four years.
Glasgow hosted a scaled-down 10-sport Commonwealth Games in 2026 at £160 million, down from £780 million in Birmingham four years earlier, after Victoria withdrew as planned host in 2023. Ahmedabad will host the centenary games in four years with an expanded programme.
South Africa's farms, factories, and households are scrambling for workers after more than 160,000 foreign workers left in recent weeks to escape deadly anti-migrant protests and intensified immigration enforcement, leaving crops unpicked and labour shortages widespread.
Thousands of foreign workers have left South Africa in recent weeks following deadly anti-migrant protests and intensified immigration enforcement, leaving farms, factories, and households struggling to fill labour gaps, particularly in fruit and grape harvesting.
In an opinion piece, Barrack Muluka reflects on the solidarity African activists expressed during the anti-apartheid struggle of the 1980s and questions whether South Africa has lived up to the ideals that motivated that movement.
Anti-foreigner vigilante attacks in South Africa, including an unofficial June 30 deadline for undocumented migrants to leave, have driven thousands back to their home countries. Over 15,000 Malawians left South Africa, along with thousands from Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and other nations, with many assisted by their governments in an official multi-country repatriation.
An opinion piece argues that xenophobic violence in South Africa—including killings of foreign migrants and forced evacuations of thousands—reflects Africa's structural failures in employment and governance, not the fault of African migrants themselves seeking opportunity.
South Africa is experiencing a wave of violence against African immigrants driven by citizen-led groups calling for undocumented foreign nationals to leave, with thousands of natives engaging in what the article describes as Afrophobia.
A Kenyan writer explores South Africa's paradox of xenophobia against African immigrants alongside significant Kenyan investment in blue-chip South African firms, arguing that underlying inequality rather than simple immigrant targeting explains anti-foreigner sentiment.
A South African court sentenced three people to life in jail for the 2018 murders of British botanist couple Rachel and Rodney Saunders, who were kidnapped while collecting seeds in the Ngoye Forest near Durban. Sayefudeen Aslam Del Vecchio, Fatima Patel, and Musa Jackson were also convicted of kidnapping, robbery and theft, and stole the couple's vehicle, equipment and credit card.
A Kenya Airways plane carrying 47 repatriated Kenyans landed at JKIA around 10 pm on Wednesday night from Johannesburg, South Africa. The returnees, including Ali Jelle Sampul from Mandera who had lived in Durban, had experienced hardship abroad.
A Kenya Airways flight carrying 47 repatriated Kenyans landed at JKIA on Wednesday night from Johannesburg. The returnees narrate accounts of xenophobic attacks in South Africa, including violence and threats.
Several thousand foreign nationals gathered near South Africa's Zimbabwe border on Friday seeking to leave the country, continuing an exodus of around 35,000 since June 7 triggered by fringe groups demanding all illegal migrants depart by June 30. The campaign has involved violent protests resulting in at least four deaths, with over 11,000 people—mostly Malawians and Zimbabweans—gathered near Musina for registration and repatriation.
Forty-eight more Kenyans stranded in South Africa arrived on July 1, bringing the total repatriated to 180, following an anti-immigrant crackdown and the June 30 deadline for undocumented and illegal foreigners. The government expects more repatriations in coming days, with returnees like one man who operated a supermarket in Durban now returning with minimal possessions.
South African police arrested more than 900 people during nationwide anti-migrant protests on Tuesday, mostly peaceful but with 12 of 120 marches requiring police intervention. One person was shot dead in Johannesburg's Alexandra township during looting of shops owned by foreign nationals, and police deployed reinforcements across five provinces.
Experts are expressing growing concern over the African Union's silence and lack of action in response to escalating anti-immigrant mobilization in South Africa.
Ghana and South Africa are in a diplomatic dispute following the death of a Ghanaian migrant. Ghana's foreign ministry says Bashiru Isak, 40, was shot during anti-immigrant demonstrations in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, while South Africa's government denies the death occurred during protests and calls Ghana's claims "factually incorrect."
Ghana has condemned the fatal shooting of national Bashiru Isak, 40, during anti-immigrant protests in Cape Town on June 30, and demanded the arrest and prosecution of those responsible. Ghana's High Commission lodged a formal protest with South African authorities and called for a full investigation and strengthened protection for Ghanaians in affected communities.
More than 2,500 immigrants have been repatriated from South Africa as authorities intensify crackdowns following nationwide anti-migrant protests. Kenya continues evacuating its citizens, with 46 more expected to arrive, adding to the 86 already repatriated.
South African police deployed on Tuesday to prevent violence as anti-immigrant groups enforced an unofficial deadline for undocumented foreign nationals to leave, pushing thousands to flee and prompting hundreds to seek refuge in cities.