Covering Diversity, Migration and Development

In August 2009, frayintermedia, the International Organization for Migration, the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa, the Wits Forced Migration Studies Programme and Media Monitoring Africa launched a series of pilot training workshops on “Covering Diversity, Migration and Development” in Johannesburg, Polokwane and Lusaka.

South Africa’s social and economic landscape has changed dramatically since the first democratic election in 1994. As townships have become primary destinations for migrants from around the country and abroad, we have seen how quickly and devastatingly frustrations and anger can be re-channelled from service-delivery protests into anti-foreigner, anti-outsider killing sprees.

Read more about the workshops here.