How a narrow court ruling became a week of anti-foreigner rage online

A narrow Constitutional Court ruling on asylum applications was distorted online into false claims about citizenship, grants, jobs and voting, fuelling anti-foreigner mobilisation in Durban. When the Constitutional Court handed down its Scalabrini judgment on 7 July, it said something legally modest: asylum seekers cannot be turned away at the door on procedural grounds, such […] The post How a narrow court ruling became a week of anti-foreigner rage online appeared first on The Namibian .