By Monday, the morning after the World Cup final in South Africa, the tension that had been building for weeks had already broken.
Migration, Xenophobic Violence, and the Ghosts of Apartheid
A group of girls from the Musina rape survivors’ shelter are clustered in the courtyard, giggling and smiling in the soft late afternoon sunshine.
Late one brisk night in mid-June, Bongani Mdiki was having a beer at Willie's Tavern in Diepsloot, a township north of Johannesburg, South Africa, when men burst in to break his head.
It’s sometime past 8 a.m. on a Friday morning in Musina, a town about 11 miles from the Zimbabwean border, and we’re breakfasting with our fixer Godknows (or “Godknows the Entertainer,” as he sometimes prefers). Between bites of scrambled eggs and toast he tells us a joke:
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Susana Ferreira is a Portuguese-Canadian multimedia journalist whose work has recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal, CBC, and France24. She has reported on human rights and the...
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Dominic Nahr is a Hong Kong-raised photojournalist. He is a recipient of The Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, was selected as one of the “Top 30 under 30” photographers by PDN Magazine, and has...