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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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[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
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WATCH: Blaming Immigrants won’t Fix SA’s Problems
Blaming immigrants won’t fix SA’s problems. Prof. Loren Landau (Senior Migration Researcher) warns of rising rightwing nationalism. Watch the interview here. Background: Prof. Loren Landau, Senior Migration Researcher, says it’s worrying that immigrants are still being blamed for a number of failings in South Africa. On 25 March 2025, scores of protesters marched in…
