It has been a year since the outbreak of xenophobic violence in Kwazulu Natal, which killed seven and displaced about 5,000 others. China Ngubane returned to Durban and spoke to NOMVULA MINELLI, a South African trader at a Durban flea market, about doing business in the midst of police checks and home affairs raids.
I was affected in 2015. This is when people looted from my business. Since then, I never managed to recover the loss, and I never managed to get back and do the same business. At the time, there were people willing to compensate for the damage but as they realised that we were speaking Zulu, they withdrew. In our fight to defend other African traders, there were insults from the locals. Nothing has come back to normal.
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