Precious Mthembu is the Senior Reporter and covers the police, the courts and the daily news of the country, with the people in the story rather than only the institution answering for it.
Al Jazeera English reported on 8 October that protests over an asylum ruling turned violent, with cars torched and foreign-run businesses forced to shut in Soweto and Durban. The Enquirer sets out what that account does and does not establish, and what has to be answered on the record.
A court judgment on asylum access triggered days of unrest in Durban that spread to Soweto, where 24 vehicles were destroyed and shops looted. Home Affairs has withdrawn the directive it issued in response to the ruling.
