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Zimbabwe: Xenophobia Victims to Return to SA Communities
SW Radio, 14 October 2010
Victims of last year's xenophobic violence in South Africa's Western Cape province will return to the communities they fled, when the refugee camp that was set up for them closes… Read more »
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South Africa: 'Xenophobia Simmering Just Below Boiling Point'
IPS, 1 September 2010
"Xenophobia is part of life. We do not live easy here. We only survive," says Somali shopkeeper, Abdinasir Shaikh Aden, looking tense. Read more »
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South Africa: Civil Society Tackles Xenophobia
BuaNews, 27 July 2010
Civil society groups are fighting xenophobia and violence in a unique way - one signature at a time. Read more »
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South Africa: Xenophobia Bad for Business
West Cape News, 13 July 2010
Threats of xenophobic attacks on African foreign nationals after the final whistle of the World Cup have resulted in them fleeing Cape townships in droves, but now businessmen… Read more »
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South Africa: Come Back, Locals Tell Somali Shopkeepers
West Cape News, 13 July 2010
Somali shop owners in Du Noon have removed their stock and shut up their businesses in an effort to minimize losses as threats of xenophobic violence loom. Read more »
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South Africa: Xenophobic Violence: Govt Out of Touch or in Denial?
SACSIS, 14 July 2010
For the past three months civil society organisations, academics and even some government officials have been warning that a new round of xenophobic attacks are coming soon after… Read more »
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South Africa: Security Forces Move to Protect Migrants
Nation, 12 July 2010
South African security forces moved into townships in the Cape Town area today after attacks and threats against foreign migrant workers. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Nationals Left Stranded After Fleeing South Africa
SW Radio, 12 July 2010
Zimbabweans fleeing South Africa due to xenophobic threats are now stranded and squatting along the main Beitbridge highways to Harare and Bulawayo, as they fled without any money. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Locals Take Xenophobic Threats Seriously
Zimbabwe Standard, 10 July 2010
For Charles Moyo there is a sense for déjà vu in the threats of xenophobic violence in South Africa come the end of the soccer World Cup today. Read more »
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South Africa: Police Ready to Act on Xenophobic Threats, Says Minister
Business Day, 9 July 2010
THE government announced its readiness to deal with any outbreak of xenophobic violence yesterday, and claimed reports that scores of foreigners were leaving SA in fear for their… Read more »
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South Africa: Zimbabweans in Country Urged to Be Vigilant
SW Radio, 9 July 2010
Zimbabweans living in South Africa have been advised not to expose themselves unnecessarily, in the face of renewed threats of violence against foreigners. Read more »
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South Africa: Poverty, Not Xenophobia, Leads to Threats
Fahamu, 8 July 2010
Rumours are circulating that when the World Cup is over, foreigners will be expelled. But surely it must be clear by now that South Africa has long been a melting pot and that our… Read more »
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South Africa: Policy Gap That Breeds Xenophobia Must be Filled
Business Day, 7 July 2010
MEDIA reports of xenophobic threats have become commonplace. After the horrors of the last wave of attacks in 2008 that left more than 60 people dead, one would expect a more… Read more »
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South Africa: Archbishop Warns Against Xenophobia
Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, 8 July 2010
Recently there have been rumours in various sections of our community of the possibility of xenophobic attacks once the World Cup is over. Immediately after such a successful… Read more »
Xenophobia Victims to Return to SA Communities
Victims of last year's xenophobic violence in the Western Cape province will return to the communities they fled.Blog Entries
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How can South Africa forget too soon?
Blog: Daily Nation RSS Feeds: Outside the Box, Tue 13 Jul, 06:00 pm 2010
Clouded in the unreasonable fear South Africans have to makwerekweres (foreign migrant workers) are three stark reminders within Johannesburg of the ... read more »
InFocus
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The rumour mill, a few recent xenophobic attacks and memories of countrywide attacks on foreign nationals two years ago have combined to create an exodus of people from the coastal ... Read more »
