Cape Town — Victims of South Africa's xenophobic attacks in May 2008 say they will only leave the temporary camp where they are living if they are repatriated to their home countries.
Bluewater camp outside Cape Town, in Western Cape Province, has housed 396 people - mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Somalia - for about a year, during which tension between the foreign nationals and the authorities has slowly increased, especially since the city of Cape Town ordered them to leave the site, which is also used as a holiday camp.
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