South Africa: What Xenophobia Means to a Nine-Year-Old Girl
Voices from the Camps shares testimonies of people displaced by xenophobic attacks in Durban, South Africa - exposing trauma and daily xenophobia beyond the violence in April. The final video in the series features nine-year-old Dolly and her mother Gloria.
Dolly has already missed seven weeks of school. She misses her friends and teachers terribly. Dolly like many of the other 300 children in the Chatsworth camp don't understand xenophobia - but they bear the brunt all the same.
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21 May 2015
Xenophobia in South Africa: Voices from the Camps - Elvira Modesero
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During March and April 2015 violent xenophobic attacks spread across South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, leaving seven people dead, several injured ... see more »
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22 May 2015
Voice from the Camps - Steven Mware
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- MSF
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During March and April 2015 violent xenophobic attacks spread across South Africa's KwaZulu Natal province, leaving seven people dead, several injured ... see more »
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20 May 2015
Voices from the Camps : Amuri Djuma
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Amuri Djuma came to South Africa in 2004, leaving behind conflict in his home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. He first worked as barber, ... see more »
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18 May 2015
Voice from the Camps - Martin Katana
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- MSF
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During March and April 2015 violent xenophobic attacks spread across South Africa's KwaZulu Natal province, leaving seven people dead, several injured ... see more »
Nine-year-old Dolly Makwakwa was born in South Africa, her mother in Mozambique. Yet xenophobic violence displaced them both, disrupting their lives. Their plea is for an end to xenophobic violence and unity among Africans.
Today marks Africa Day and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa releases the final instalment in a series of anti-xenophobia video testimonies from refugees, asylum seekers and migrants titled Voices from the Camps. Migrants displaced by attacks in KwaZulu-Natal are still living in camps, unable to return home.
For people like Elvira Modesero, a Burundian nurse working in South Africa, life in South Africa has shielded her from Burundi’s troubles, but it has also been complicated by xenophobia.
