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Africa: Deaths in South Africa As Mobs Target Foreigners
Al Jazeera, 15 April 2015
Violence against immigrants in South Africa has killed at least five people since last week in one of the worst outbreak of violence in years against foreigners in years. Read more »
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South Africa: Xenophobic Attacks Spread to Durban City Centre
allAfrica, 14 April 2015
The violence against foreign migrants living in South Africa spread to the centre of a major South African city on Tuesday as crowds reportedly numbering thousands gathered on the… Read more »
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South Africa: Xenophobia in South Africa - a Lack of Visionary Leadership
OSISA, 15 April 2015
The other day I was listening to people phoning into a show on South Africa's talk radio 702. The animated discussion was about the recent flare-up in xenophobic attacks on black… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: SA Cops, Goons in Street Battles
The Herald, 15 April 2015
SOUTH African police fought running battles with hundreds of locals armed with knobkerries, pangas and rocks in the port city of Durban yesterday as a new wave of xenophobia showed… Read more »
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South Africa: KZN Xenophobic Attacks - 'Take Your Shit and Leave My Country!'
The Daily Vox, 15 April 2015
A wave of xenophobic violence has engulfed communities across KwaZulu-Natal in the past week, with foreign-owned shops looted and foreign nationals driven out of informal… Read more »
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South Africa: Xenophobic Violence Rages in Durban, South Africa
HRW, 14 April 2015
With incidents of xenophobic violence more frequent these days, does South Africa's ruling party really think refugee camps are the answer? Read more »
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South Africa: Malawi, Somalia Repatriate Threatened Nationals
Walta Info, 14 April 2015
Last night, the Somali embassy said it was trying to trace its citizens and help them escape the violence. It has demanded urgent assistance from the Department of International… Read more »
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South Africa: Durban's Ring of Xenophobia
Daily Maverick, 15 April 2015
Some of Ntuzuma residents in Durban ran wild on Monday night when they violently attacked foreign shopkeepers. The Lindelani section of Ntuzuma is the latest to suffer in a… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Cecil John Rhodes Fell, Xenophobia Must Follow
The Herald, 15 April 2015
Cecil John Rhodes has fallen at the University of Cape Town but South Africa still has a long way to go. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Call to Boycott South African Artists Over Xenophobia
New Zimbabwe, 14 April 2015
ZIMBABWEANS, angered by Xenophobic attacks in South Africa aimed mostly at foreigners of African origin in that country, are pushing for a boycott of arts events featuring South… Read more »
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South Africa: The Political Significance of Protests
SACSIS, 13 April 2015
In the broader scheme of things, how significant are the recent wave of protests that have engulfed South Africa over the past decade? Are they another means of pressurising the… Read more »
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South Africa: Security Ministries Promise Crackdown On Violence, Foreign Criminals
allAfrica, 14 April 2015
Attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa were a symptom of "Afrophobia" in South Africa, the police minister, Nathi Nhleko, told a parliamentary briefing on Tuesday. Read more »
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South Africa: Xenophobia and Bloodshed in His Majesty's Kingdom
Daily Maverick, 15 April 2015
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has up to now not said anything that has had a major impact on life and politics in post-democracy South Africa. He has just been there, presiding and… Read more »
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South Africa: Additional Police Deployed in KZN
SAnews.gov.za, 14 April 2015
Additional law enforcement officers have been deployed in KwaZulu-Natal to deal with attacks on foreign nationals. Read more »
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South Africa: Police on High Alert in KZN
SAnews.gov.za, 14 April 2015
Police remain on high alert in KwaMashu, KwaZulu-Natal, where shops belonging to foreign nationals were looted and some burnt down. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Xenophobia - Stitch in Time Saves Nine
The Herald, 15 April 2015
ON April 6, the people of Rwanda commemorated 21 years since the 1994 genocide, which left close to a million people dead. Read more »
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South Africa: Xenophobia - South Africa's New Apartheid?
The Daily Vox, 14 April 2015
Xenophobic attacks in Durban have escalated over the past week. Read more »