Alien epistemology — framing foreigners as enemies within a culture of legal antipathy In this Daily Maverick opinion, Claudia Pizzocri introduces the concept of “alien epistemology” to describe a way of thinking in which foreignness itself becomes a...
A simple image of mismatched effort for when a house is burning is a fitted one here. In this opinion our CEO, Claudia Pizzocri, published on Daily Maverick, she argues that while the Department points to initiatives, concessions and reform gestures, the underlying...
30 March 2026 The Department of Home Affairs has just published Immigration Directive 7 of 2026 . This Directive which refers to a further “EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY CONCESSION FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS RELATED TO DELAYED PROCESSING OF WAIVER, VISA AND APPEAL...
Eroding democracy — scapegoating foreigners is a sign of institutional exhaustion From Donald Trump’s US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids to Operation New Broom and South Africa’s Revised Draft White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection,...
Digital IDs. Security vs Surveillance. Read the full opinion by our CEO, Claudia Pizzocri, as published on Daily Maverick. Some extracts below. In Europe, governments are rolling out wallets and electronic identity cards in the name of secure logins and smoother...
