According to this BBC report, an angry mob in Atteridgeville, a township near Pretoria, stoned and then set a Mozambican man alight. This comes only a few weeks after pictures of a man burning alive were splashed across the pages of newspapers globally.
Xenophobia lingers on – and until there are active measures in place to [...]
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June 15, 2008
SA thugs burn another Mozambican man to death
June 3, 2008
Mkwere mkwere memories: ‘The police — they just laugh at us’
The two Congolese men that arrive on the church’s doorstep look shaken and defeated. They explain that their house in Samora Machel has been ransacked and burnt down; there is nowhere for them to go. Could they spend the night here, at the Claremont Methodist church?
Unfortunately the church is full so, after a hot meal [...]
May 25, 2008
When will the madness end?
There are five Zimbabweans visiting my house; they’ve come for a shower after spending a night at the Claremont Methodist Church in Cape Town’s southern suburbs. It’s too dangerous for them to return home. 25 000 others like them have also been forced to flee for their lives while barbaric attacks rage and immigrants are [...]
May 16, 2008
Anti-xenophobia march in Cape Town
Below is a press release from the refugee advocacy group PASSOP providing details on a march to Parliament on Saturday, 17 May. If you’re in town, be there!!
Press release from PASSOP
PASSOP (People Against Suffering Suppression Oppression and Poverty) is appalled by the reports of recent xenophobic attacks in Alexandria and Diepsloot. We are appealing to [...]
