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. In April Dolly, her single mother, Gloria Makwakwa, and two siblings, fled to the Chatsworth displacement camp with hundreds of other foreign nationals, after a spate of xenophobic attacks across the city. Mozambican-born Gloria came to South Africa as a young woman with no family links 'back home' after her parents died. Dolly was born in South Africa in 2006. By now 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 Chatsworh camp don't understand xenophobia - but they bear the brunt all the same.

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