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Sep 28, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Qaanitah Hunter

    Refugees in South Africa fear new attacks as September 30 deadline looms (opens the original)

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    Durban, South Africa – Bishop Raphael Bahebwa is in hiding, afraid he could be attacked for speaking out for the rights of foreigners in South Africa. “I am in hiding now because they say they are going to kill me for speaking about the rights of foreigners,” he told Al Jazeera. Bahebwa has lived in South Africa for 26 years, after arriving as a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In that time, he has watched antiforeigner sentiment flare repeatedly in the country he came to

  2. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Qaanitah Hunter

    Sharpeville massacre, 66 years on: Families still wait for justice (opens the original)

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    Sharpeville, South Africa – Paulina Mathinye was five years old when her father left home for a meeting near the police station in Sharpeville, a township south of Johannesburg. She remembers waiting for him to return. “I’ll go run to him,” Mathinye recalled thinking. “He will pick me up like daddies always do with their beloved daughters.” On March 21, 1960, Mathinye’s father joined other men from the community at a gathering protesting apartheid’s pass laws, which required Black South Africans

  3. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Qaanitah Hunter

    Online anti-Muslim backlash collides with different reality in South Africa (opens the original)

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    Nquthu, South Africa – When Zwelibi Jack Ngubane died at the age of 105, he had already made one thing clear to his family: he wanted to be buried as a Muslim. Hundreds of family and community members gathered for his funeral in Nquthu, a rural part of northern KwaZulu-Natal where Christianity and traditional African beliefs are dominant and Muslims are a tiny minority. Ngubane had converted to Islam late in life after observing the faith of his young grandson. When he died, his family honoured

  4. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · By Qaanitah Hunter

    Seventy years after South Africa’s women’s march, the struggle is not over (opens the original)

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    Johannesburg, South Africa – Seventy years ago, Sophie Williams-de Bruyn was 18 when she joined about 20,000 women marching to the Union Buildings, the seat of South Africa’s apartheid government, to protest against the extension of the pass laws to Black women. On August 9, 1956, the women gathered in Pretoria carrying a petition against laws that restricted the movement of Black South Africans. Williams-de Bruyn was among the leaders of the march, which became one of the defining moments of th

  5. Article · Jul 18, 2026 · Qaanitah Hunter

    Mandela Day: What his legacy means in today’s South Africa (opens the original)

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    Johannesburg, South Africa – Nelson Mandela Day has become the backdrop for a wider debate in South Africa over the values the former president represented, as the country grapples with inequality, economic frustration and growing divisions over how to address social problems. That debate has been sharpened this year by the decision of March and March, a coalition of anti-immigration activists that has organised protests across South Africa in recent months, to use Mandela Day activities to insp

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