The world is watching
2008-05-22 09:12
Special Report
A third man has been arrested for the killing of Siphiwe Madondo in May 2008, at the start of a wave of xenophobic attacks throughout the country.
Cape Town - There is no doubt that South Africa's image abroad has been severly affected by xenophobic violence.
Read what international commentators have had to say on the spate of attacks.
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 End of the rainbow
The scale and suddenness of attacks on thousands of African foreigners has surprised authorities in South Africa. It should not have done...
 South Africans Vent Rage at Migrants
The man certainly looked dead, lying motionless in the dust of the squatter camp. His body seemed almost like a bottle that had been turned on its side...
 The violent price of inequality
When you need an explanation of xenophobic or tribal violence in Africa look to the money...
 Anti-Immigrant Terror in South Africa
South Africans have been shocked by the depth of the hatred revealed by the violence against immigrants, which has been sharply condemned...
 Expats lash out at anti-migrant violence
South African expatriates in the UAE have been appalled and shocked by the anti-foreigner violence that has erupted in their home country...
 Inequalities to blame for Africa's woes
It might have come as a shock that the country often relied on to provide the lead in trying to find homegrown solutions to Africa's problems...
Blame it on apartheid's cruel legacy...
A black columnist wrote last week in City Press, a newspaper aimed at black South Africans, that it would be a mistake to attribute the wave of violence unleashed on African immigrants to xenophobia...
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