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Policy paper · 1 July 2026

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Xenophobia in South Africa: Why African Integration Is the Only Sustainable Answer

An argument that xenophobic violence in South Africa is a governance and development failure rather than a migration problem, and that its durable answer is African integration together with a functioning immigration system — not walls, deportations, or the ac...

Adil Abdel Aati · Chofor Che Christian-Aimé · Dr Khulu Mbatha

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ADAFP core funds.
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