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 […]
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 […]
Meet the Zulu King who started the Xenophobic attacks in South Africa
Zulu King Godwill Zwelithi’s utterances on March 23rd launched the xenophobic attacks in South Africa and he had refused to apologize, even after finding out that his people have maimed, killed and destroyed businesses belonging to black foreigners.He’s still insisting that foreigners should go back to their countries but tried to save face by saying […]
Zim student body calls for attacks on S.A. businesses
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) president Gilbert Mutubuki has called on Zimbabwean youths to retaliate against xenophobic violence in South Africa by attacking South African businesses operating in Zimbabwe. Zinasu is Zimbabwe’s largest students body which represents thousands of students at all universities and colleges across the country. At least five people have […]
Xenophobia repercussions affect Sasol in Mozambique
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday condemned the attacks on foreign nationals and urged communities to assist police in bringing perpetrators to justice. Zuma’s intervention in Parliament comes as xenophobic violence spreads from troubled communities in KwaZulu-Natal to residential areas in Gauteng. His call also comes as repercussions of the violence spilled across borders on Thursday‚ […]
South African workers must go
Maputo – South Africans working in Mozambique on Thursday faced threats of reprisals in retaliation for the pogroms against foreign workers in Durban – but in the event no violence occurred. Mozambican workers at the natural gas treatment facilities of the South African company Sasol, in Inhambane province, demanded the removal of the 250 South […]
South Africans recorded burnning foreign children alive (Video)
VIDEO TAKEN DOWN – TOO GRAPHIC Two Ethiopian nationals suffered serious burns when their shop in a South African township was set alight by a mob, as violence against foreign immigrants spread.The men were in the shop in Umlazi, south of Durban, when it was petrol bombed on Friday night.”They suffered severe burn wounds and […]
South Africa assures ambassadors that foreigners will be protected
South Africa’s Jacob Zuma has assured high commissioners and ambassadors that foreigners in South Africa will be protected.”We will ensure that all our people, including foreign nationals, always feel enveloped by an abiding sense of security wherever they are in the country,” he said in a speech prepared for delivery.”In this regard, our law enforcement […]