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More than 600 Malawian nationals who had been sheltering at a temporary place of safety in South Africa’s Eastern Cape have now begun their journey home. This story is written and edited by Global South World Many said they decided to leave after a community-imposed deadline required foreign nationals without legal documentation to leave the area. […]
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The coronavirus pandemic triggered a worldwide mental-health crisis. This narrative ages almost as quickly as the virus itself but one forgets easily that the psychological minefield by returned migrants was looming long before. The pandemic is not the only test on the psychological immune system of returned migrants, which appears more robust than we would have guessed. When familiar sources of enjoyment evaporate […]
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My first trip to South Africa, twenty years ago, was in August when it was rainy and cloudy in Cape Town, but warm and sunny in Johannesburg. With a wet, thick gloomy fog layer hovering overhead, I did not have a chance to appreciate Cape Town, and I thought that Johannesburg was the stunning jewel of […]
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