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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Thursday expressed concern about the rise in violence and racist hate crimes targeting migrants in South Africa, urging authorities to implement urgent measures to address this issue.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, welfare does not begin and end with government programmes. Families, savings groups, burial societies, labour-sharing networks, women’s organisations, religious institutions and customary systems routinely help people navigate illness, unemployment, bereavement, financial stress and other shocks. However, much of this architecture remains peripheral to formal social-policy design, even as formal social protection reaches…