Mugabe urges migrants in South Africa to return home
HARARE — Speaking at a regional summit on industrialization, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has urged migrants in South Africa to return home. There has a been a month of attacks on foreign workers in South Africa. The leaders of the fifteen member states of the Southern African Development Community met in Zimbabwe on Wednesday. The […]
Terrorist Group Al-Shabaab Promises To Make S.Africa Pay For Xenophobia
Cape Town – African-based terror groups Boko Haram and al-Shabaab’s threats to attack South Africans in retaliation for xenophobic violence should not be taken lightly. That was the warning sounded on Friday by local Islamic authority Moulana Ihsaan Hendricks, president of the Cape Town-based Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), who said at its Crawford headquarters that […]
Xenophobic Attacks ‘Vile,’ Says Zulu King
South Africa’s influential Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini described recent anti-immigrant attacks as “vile”, defending himself against claims previous comments he made about foreigners sparked the unrest. Goodwill Zwelithini is the influential king of South Africa’s Zulu nation. Comments that he made last month — when he reportedly said head lice should be squashed and foreigners […]
S.A. and Nigeria spar over xenophobic violence
South Africa has condemned Nigeria’s decision to recall its ambassador over a spate of attacks against foreigners. Durban, South Africa – The recent xenophobic violence in South Africa against migrant workers has sparked a new diplomatic rift with Nigeria, with the South African government condemning Nigeria’s decision to withdraw its envoys from Pretoria. On Sunday, […]
Thousands match against xenophobic attacks
About 30,000 people have taken part in a march through South Africa’s main city, Johannesburg, to demand an end to a recent wave of xenophobic attacks. Both locals and immigrants joined the protest with placards saying “Africa Unite” and “Welcome foreigners”. An anti-xenophobic protest also took place in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. South […]
Zulu king appeals for an end to xenophobic attacks
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has asked for an end to violence after xenophobic attacks against migrants in South Africa. The king told crowds of thousands at a stadium in Durban that previous reports that he said foreigners should “go back to their countries” were distorted. He has been accused of fuelling attacks in which at […]
No Zambians killed yet in S.A. xenophobic attacks
LUSAKA — Government has dismissed as false and misleading online stories and a featured photograph suggesting that a Zambian has been killed in the xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Chief Government Spokesperson Chishimba Kambwili says the stories and picture posted online are a total fabrication and should therefore be ignored with the contempt they deserve. […]
Police confront protestors at S.A. border
Mozambican workers in Ressano Garcia, on the border with South Africa, on Friday expelled South Africans from their workplaces, and barricaded the road to the frontier. Infuriated by the attacks against foreign workers in South Africa, the Mozambican workers in the companies WBO, Wartsila and Gigawatt demanded that the South Africans leave. They did not […]
‘Rainbow Nation’ turns dark as immigrant attacks rise
(Reuters) – When he heard angry screams and the hammering of hatchets on the door of his shack last week, Malawian Folias Sakai thought he was about to become the eighth person to be killed in anti-immigrant attacks that have swept South Africa this month. Instead Sakai managed to escape the mob by scrambling over […]
Xenophobia : The brutal death of Emmanuel Sithole
Shortly before 7am yesterday, Sunday Times journalists were in Alexandra township, near Sandton, speaking to shop owners who had their businesses looted overnight. Children played, people walked the streets, some stopped to gawk at the carnage from the night before. Then this happened … In a gutter in Alexandra a Mozambican man stopped and lay […]
