South African university students are as guilty of xenophobia as anyone else. Three approaches through teaching and research could make a huge difference.
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Evolution also does not claim humans evolved from primates. Neither does it say non-human primates, including monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees and gorillas, will evolve into humans with time.
The European obsession with labeling people either economic migrants or refugees hampers understanding of the problems they face. Adding the role remittances play to the debate would help.
Republicans in the US don’t have a monopoly on anti-immigrant rants. It’s bad in Europe, too.
The Czech police were condemned for writing numbers on refugees’ arms – but Central Europe’s problem with outsiders goes much deeper.
Budapest’s main train station has been reopened to refugees – but Hungary’s hateful politics of fear are only getting harsher.
The motive behind South Africa’s new visa regulations is noble. But the implementation needs to be adapted and improved to minimise the negative effect on the country’s tourism industry.
South Africa is a popular destination for international students - especially those from the SADC region. Will xenophobia keep them away?
The relationship between Africa’s two great powers, Nigeria and South Africa, has had its ups and downs, but has been relatively cordial since 1999.
Higher education institutions that only hire academics from their own backyards simply cannot compete in this era of the global university.
Labor and the unions have decided to play the China card in the NSW election. Such scare campaigns ignore the facts, including that Australia has invested almost as much in China as China has here.
More than a decade of security-based transnational approaches to combating terrorist activity and propaganda have demonstrated that these alone are ineffective. Sometimes, security measures can actually…
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Chief Research Specialist., Human Sciences Research Council
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Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand
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