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What is Xenowatch? An open-source system tracking xenophobic discrimination in SA via WhatsApp, email and call. We verify, record and analyse incidents to enable early warning and accountability. Prof. Loren Landau (ACMS) explained this on Channel Africa. Listen HERE.

NEWS – This morning on Radio 702, Prof. Loren B Landau (African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)) addressed the widespread tendency to blame immigrants for South Africa’s unemployment crisis. He explained that the challenges South Africans face, such as unemployment and housing shortages, are not caused by foreign nationals. Rather, politicians who have failed…

The Patriotic Alliance has announced that they are exploring legal options to investigate Miss South Africa contestant Vanessa Chidimma Onwe Adetshina. This may include seeking a court order to prevent Adetshina from participating in the Miss South Africa Beauty Pageant if necessary. The party’s immediate concern is to verify whether Adetshina is indeed a South…

In this Imiscoe Podcast episode, Silindile Mlilo, project manager of Xenowatch, interviews Loren Landau about his latest research on African cities. Loren talks about how patterns of migration to cities in Africa are distinct from urbanization in other parts of the world. Loren has been researching space regulation and how migrants interact with cities, as…

Professor Loren Landau and Silindile Mlilo participated in the Borders and Belonging Podcast hosted by Maggie Perzyna, a researcher with the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration programme at Toronto Metropolitan University, together with Trevor Ngwane. In this episode, the speakers unpack what continues to fuel xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa. Listen to…