News - ZAF
4 articles tagged ZAF, newest first
2026-09-03
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│ Teargas and rubber bullets as march clashes │
│ with refugees in Durban │
│ feature - TimesLIVE - unknown/unknown [ZAF] │
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│ Teargas and rubber bullets were used │
│ against migrants camped at Durban's Che │
│ Guevara Road on Sept 3, with further │
│ anti-foreigner protest violence and │
│ Congolese nationals reported injured. The │
│ UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial │
│ Discrimination separately raised formal │
│ concern about rising anti-migrant violence │
│ in South Africa. State force used against │
│ migrant encampments plus a multilateral │
│ finding is a two-step move. │
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│ https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-afri │
│ ca/2026-09-03-watch-teargas-and-rubber-bull │
│ ets-as-tempers-flare-in-march-and-march-cla │
│ sh-with-refugees/ │
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2026-07-18
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│ Over 400 Kenyans repatriated from South │
│ Africa amid crackdown │
│ medium - Bloomberg - │
│ independent/independent [ZAF,KEN] │
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│ Over 400 Kenyans were repatriated from │
│ South Africa July 18 amid the │
│ anti-immigrant crackdown and │
│ xenophobic-violence fears, extending the │
│ deportation campaign's regional/diplomatic │
│ cost. Watch-item corroborating the prior │
│ pass's South Africa treatment_non_citizens │
│ move; no score moved this pass. │
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│ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202 │
│ 6-07-18/south-africa-migration-crackdown │
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2026-07-12
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│ South Africa Says 53,449 Migrants Returned │
│ or Deported in Crackdown │
│ large - Bloomberg - independent/independent │
│ [ZAF] │
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│ The deportation campaign more than doubled │
│ in under two weeks to 53,449 foreign │
│ nationals as of July 11 (from ~25,000 │
│ before the June 30 anti-migrant protests), │
│ over 80% Malawian nationals. A │
│ street-pressure-driven mass-removal │
│ step-change: drove South Africa │
│ treatment_non_citizens -2 to -4. │
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│ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202 │
│ 6-07-12/south-africa-says-53-449-migrants-r │
│ eturned-or-deported-in-crackdown │
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2026-07-09
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│ Eskom removes more than 1 million customers │
│ from load reduction; five provinces now │
│ free │
│ medium - Eskom - │
│ unknown/partially-entangled [ZAF] │
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│ Eskom removed 1.1M+ customers from load │
│ reduction July 9, declared five provinces │
│ fully cut-free and targets national │
│ elimination by March 2027, extending a │
│ 413-day load-shedding-free streak. South │
│ Africa infrastructure -2 to -1 │
│ (state-entity self-report cross-checked │
│ against the tracked streak). │
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│ https://www.joburgetc.com/news/eskom-frees- │
│ over-1-million-load-reduction-five-province │
│ s-free/ │
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