Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. More foreign nationals have sought shelter in a Durban police station and a mosque ...

With just the clothing on their backs, a group of foreign nationals fled from their homes in Durban to seek shelter in a police station when they were attacked early on Tuesday morning.

Thousands sought refuge in temporary shelters in South Africa after mobs with machetes attacked immigrants in Durban, leaving at least five people dead, an aid group said Thursday. Heavily armed ...

At the Durban Station shelter, which houses more than 220 people, we found four showers, none of them working, and eight overflowing toilets. Some of the doors for the toilets and the showers were ...

The Durban Station shelter houses more than 220 people. Image: Tsoanelo Sefoloko. The investigators visited the shelters and found that the” toilets and showers were in a bad state”.