Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
9 February 2008
A police raid on a Methodist church which provides shelter to hundreds of refugees in the South African financial centre of Johannesburg is continuing to draw angry responses.
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What do you consider a crime? Do you consider the years of depredations against the citizens of Mocambique, Angola, Namibia, and Zimbabwe crimes? I definitely do. Do you consider that those who fought hardest to end the white supremacist regime in South Africa have benefited the least from ANC rule a crime? I do. What do you begrudge your brothers and sisters?
It is just not true that major part of crime is committed by illigal immigrants from Zimbabwe. Major murders in South Africa have been committed by South Africans. Zimbabweans contributes billions of rands to the South African economy.
on the balance zimbabweans in south africa are simply the country's loss of capita per head as their productivity levels are generally higher based on their skills reckoning ask any employer
Since when does Zimbabwean Citisans have "refugee" satus in RSA? The Government has emphaticaly denied that people from South Africa are "refugees" as it is "racist". It is a known factor that a major part of crime is committed by illigal immigrants from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.