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South Africa: Burning the Welcome Mat

19 May 2008


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• In May more than 20 people are arrested after shops belonging to Somalis and other foreign nationals are torched during anti-government protests in Khutsong township, a small mining town about 50km southwest of Johannesburg.

• According to the International Organisation of Migration, 177,514 Zimbabweans deported from South Africa pass through their reception centre across the border in Beitbridge since its opening in May 2006.

2008

• In March human rights organisations condemn a spate of xenophobic attacks around Pretoria that leave at least four people dead and hundreds homeless.

Sources include: Human Rights Watch, SAMP, SAHRC, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations ]

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Author: Think about it
Tue May 20 07:18:28 2008

When one group of people think for whatever reason the are surerior to another,they are RACISTS,and probably evolutioists as well.

Author: Maanda
Tue May 20 12:07:07 2008

This is a serious problem -crisis. I think, this what we call “xenophobia” I am not even sure if it a xenophobia anymore. This killing, beating and chasing our brothers and sisters is unacceptable to our country. We should think out of box!! I think in our country we have what we call those tribe who think they are so special in a way that they think other a human being is something else; we even saw it when other tribe are also under threat (this include Tsonga and Venda). I think it does not even need a politician to see which tribes are behind this!!!! This is so stupid!! Our image is damaged!!!

Author: onesoulzim1
Tue May 20 12:33:31 2008

Black South Africans are not racists. It is unfortunate that the down trodden indigenous Azanians have no sense of security in their God given homeland. Worse still, there is no solution in sight from their political leaders. The American vote today is central to solutions that bring jobs home. The British have since last months toughened migration laws in terms of skilled labour force. Zimbabwe has taken all land and gave it to the marginalized blacks who are already in the process of learning farming business. Zimbabwe is making laws that put local companies and local employment a priority to the indigenous people. We can not expect to have a population in the new millennium mentality accepting defeat like afros, indios, maos and abos of then. If the racists apartheid farmers are thinking that there are in a safe haven they should be living in fantasy. This wave is never to be stopped by button sticks and police armour.

Author: quacoo
Tue May 20 15:31:37 2008

Many Africans living abroad are ashamed to hear the kind of treatment other black African nationals are going thruogh in South Africa. REMEMBER DEAR SOUTH AFRICANS, SEVERAL AFRICAN COUNTRIES GAVE MUCH NEEDED MONIES WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN SPENT ON DEVELOPING THEIR COUNTRIES AND CREATING JOBS TO BETTER CONDITIONS FOR THEIR NATIONALS TO SUPPORT ANC FIGHT FOR YOUR LIBERATION. The entire continent of Africa joind the ANC one way or the other. This is your reward to those whose blood were sacrificed to see you free from your white masters who treated you as nothing.

It is unfortunate, very sad. People we considered brothers and sisters and stood up for to behave this way. There are South African nationals every where on the African continent. I plead to my fellow Africans not to retaliate. When will Africans wake up from the slumber.

Author: mehret
Sat May 24 06:03:20 2008

The whole world cried during apartheid time for Black African's in South Africa, now they gain their right and started to do what the white people were doing to them this is sad , people tend to forget their past so easily.


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