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Refugees in spotlight at summit High-powered officials discuss displaced people’s rights

IN A continued effort to raise awareness on the plight and rights of refugees, The Agency for Refugee Education, Skills Training & Advocacy (Aresta)...

SA promises to improve processing of refugees on World Refugee Day

South Africa has offered hope for refugees and asylum seekers‚ promising to digitise its systems to make their lives easier. Home affairs deputy minister Fatima...

GO Review – Nowhere

Genre: Drama, thriller  Nowhere is a movie that takes a familiar survival thriller and puts a unique spin on it that will keep viewers glued...

Life’s evanescence depicted in artform

Evanescence describes impermanence and instability, and the latest CVD Framers exhibition, which opened on September 9, attempts to grapple with this. Claudine Hauke, Janet Young...

Swarms of locusts on track to devour African economies

Sadly, the northeastern African countries of Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan are best known for the heart-rending images they have produced over the years when...

Evans can’t beat poor script in ‘Red Sea Diving Resort’

With the first stage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe coming to a close with Endgame, Chris Evans is branching out from the Captain America...

A million more people live in SA than a year ago: Stats SA

There are about 57.73-million people living in South Africa today‚ an increase of about a million from this time last year. Statistics South Africa released...

MILESTONE MAGIC

On August 24 the Agency for Refugee Education, Skills Training and Advocacy (Aresta) held a graduation ceremony for those refugees and asylum seekers who...

W4C celebrates Women’s Day

Moms get a turn THE East London team of the Waves for Change (W4C) project took time out to teach their mothers, aunts, sisters and...

Crackdown halves number of foreigners with temporary residence permits

The number of temporary residency permits awarded to foreigners has halved since 2012‚ while permanent residency figures have multiplied by nearly five times. A survey...

Language of success for Aresta graduates

THE Agency for Refugee Education, Skills Training and Advocacy (Aresta) held their graduation ceremony last week Thursday. Graduates successfully completed the Aresta vocational training course...

Peace protest highlights plight of foreign nationals

Marchers target xenophobia THE Agency for Refugee Education, Skills Training and Advocacy (Aresta) held an Anti-Xenophobia Peace March last week Thursday. The march was attended by...

Boot camp boost for social cohesion

THE Agency for Refugee Education, Skills Training and Advocacy (ARESTA) held a boot camp with the theme “Beat Xenophobia Hercules Bootcamp: No to Racism,...

Refugee women learn new skills

SIX REFUGEE women who successfully completed their studies in home-based care have been honoured at a graduation ceremony held at the Agency for Refugee...

Ambassadors of peace

UN High Commissioner for Refugees agency trains pupils to build society free of xenophobia TO HELP promote the integration of refugees in South African society,...