History Matters

Durban police constable Kwesi Matenjwa confesses – on the morning of Saturday, 1 November – how “the great white shark”, City Manager Michael Sutcliffe, ordered his unit to evict (without alternative accommodation) 47 desperate people, mostly from the Eastern DRC. Sutcliffe accused the refugees – mainly women and children – of being involved in “crime”, [...]

The Centre for Civil Society, based at the University of KwaZulu Natal presents a photographic exhibition detailing the challenges of a community of foreign nationals during the outbreak of xenophobia in the Durban area. The photographs depict the plight of this community during their journey of no end from the doors of the police station [...]