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South Africa: Fortress South Africa
SACSIS, 8 May 2015
South Africa is emerging from the most severe spate of xenophobic attacks since 2008, although the attacks have never really stopped. What lessons need to be learned from the… Read more »
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South Africa: Bitter Boy Who Shames His Father and His People
Fahamu, 30 April 2015
President Zuma's son Edward is xenophobic and racist. Like the disgarceful Zulu King Zwelithini he supports, whose reckless utterances sparked the attacks on foreginers, Edward… Read more »
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South Africa: Emmanuel Sithole Is Dead
Fahamu, 30 April 2015
At times like this you can almost forget the good and gentle South Africans you have met over the years. The slow Sunday brunches after a foray into the Mall when everybody calls… Read more »
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South Africa: Govt Dragged to Court Over Xenophobic Attacks
CAJ News, 4 May 2015
The South African government has been dragged to the country's High Court following the deadly xenophobic attacks in recent weeks. Read more »
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South Africa: Many Gruesome Online Pics Unrelated to Current Xenophobic Violence
Africa Check, 24 April 2015
Images shared on social media purport to show victims of the most recent outbreak of xenophobic violence in South Africa. Using free online tools, we found many of them were… Read more »
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Southern Africa: Reflections On Personal Vulnerability in Debates On the Migration-Development Nexus
OSISA, 19 April 2015
The notion that migrants transmit wealth to their country of origin which ignores the cost to their families permeates the debates about migration-development links. However this… Read more »
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South Africa: Arm Yourself, Learn Tstotsi and Dance Pantsula
The Journalist, 21 April 2015
A Kenyan journalist reflects on exile in Joburg & Xenophobia Read more »
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Nigeria: Xenophobia - Dear South Africans, Blame Your Leaders, Not Foreigners
Vanguard, 19 April 2015
There are various video clips circulating on social media networks of the xenophobic attacks going on in the former apartheid country, South Africa. When I first came across one of… Read more »
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South Africa: Xenophobia and the Media - Where Truth and Patriotism Intersect
Daily Maverick, 22 April 2015
There he was, the president of South Africa, reading the Sunday newspapers and thinking: "This makes us look bad". The cause of President Jacob Zuma's consternation was a picture… Read more »
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Zambia: Lessons From SA Xenophobia
Times of Zambia, 21 April 2015
"ISAAC, we can no longer go to the movie today. We have a curfew," my late dad told me. Read more »
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South Africa: Basic Education Condemns Violence Against Foreign Nationals
Govt of SA, 20 April 2015
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) condemns in the strongest possible terms any violence against foreign nationals. The spate of attacks on foreigners in parts of… Read more »
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Rwanda: Dear South Africans, Killing Immigrants Does Not Create Jobs
New Times, 21 April 2015
In South Africa violence against immigrants from other African countries has become a disturbingly regular occurrence. Last week South Africans were at it again. Read more »
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Africa: South Africa's Xenophobia Problem - Dispelling the Myths
UNIRIN, 21 April 2015
Xenophobia doesn't exist in isolation. It needs social problems and economic hardship to flourish. After an upsurge in violence in Durban and Johannesburg that has claimed seven… Read more »
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South Africa: Xenophobia - We Will Reap What We Sow
The Daily Vox, 21 April 2015
There's been a lot of middle-class hand-wringing about recent events, from the toppling of Rhodes to the latest outbreak of xenophobic attacks. But complacent South Africans who… Read more »
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South Africa: South Africa, a Country of Misdirected Anger
Daily Maverick, 20 April 2015
When violence breaks out, it is our own heart that is ripped by the blade. South Africans, some children, are killed; diplomatic and economic relations are damaged; the economy… Read more »
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South Africa: South Africa - the Place of Shame, Violence and Disconnect
Daily Maverick, 17 April 2015
"South Africans are generally not xenophobic", President Jacob Zuma said in Parliament on Thursday. What are we generally? Complacent? Angry? Fed up? Who knows what the true state… Read more »
Whose Fault is South Africa's Xenophobic Violence?
Writers for AllAfrica's partner publications from both outside and within South Africa, beginning with Nigerian columnist Babajide Alabi, discuss where the blame should lie.
A peace march against violence on foreign nationals in South Africa at the Durban city centre.
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"They are going to be charged for public violence, malicious damage to property, house breaking and theft". Read more »
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Somalia, Malawi, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe are preparing to help their citizens escape the violence after deadly xenophobic attacks spread from Durban to Johannesburg and ... Read more »
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The company says its has taken the step as a precautionary measure due to threats against the workers because of the xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Read more »
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The government has provided free transport for hundreds of Zimbabweans who were displaced by violence in South Africa. Read more »
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South Africa has launched the 'We Are One Humanity' campaign as a long-term response to xenophobic violence. Read more »
