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Anti-Immigration Marches Raise Questions Over Vigilantism, Violence and Police Response
Professor Loren Landau, co-director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab (MGL), warned that the widespread appropriation of state authority by ordinary people, such as vigilante groups and opportunistic politicians, effectively privatised one of the core functions of the state. Read the article here.
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EXPLAINER: What Is Xenowatch?
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.
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BLAMED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA?
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…
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INTERVIEW: Immigration Challenges and Xenophobic Discrimination in South Africa.
Tune in to eNCA tonight (28.04.2026) as Prof. Loren Landau from the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) joins Abigail Visagie to discuss immigration challenges and xenophobic discrimination in South Africa.
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[WATCH] – “Trump’s acceptance of Afrikaners as refugees into the United States is an assault across many fronts.”
“Trump’s acceptance of Afrikaners as refugees into the United States is an assault across many fronts.” Loren Landau, a professor of migration and development at Oxford University, shares his thoughts on the message the Trump administration is sending by granting some white South Africans refugee status in the US. The first group of 49…
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[WATCH] – Reports that US will accept White South African ‘refugees’ prompts concern in South Africa | DW News
South Africa says it is concerned about reports that the USA will begin taking in White South Africans as refugees. ACMS‘ University of the Witwatersrand’s Professor Loren B Landau tells Deutsche Welle why he thinks White South Africans have no basis to claim asylum in the USA. WATCH here
