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Ashamed of South Africa

2008-05-23 14:47

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Xenophobia

Cape Town - South Africans have been struggling to make sense of the violent attacks on foreigners.

Here is a collection of witness accounts and perspectives from inside South Africa.

'We need to address xenophobia'
The violence in Alexandra and Diepsloot has once again brought the issue of xenophobia into the headlines, but this is not a new problem, nor is it one that is likely to be easily solved...

'It is bad here'
At the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg's CBD, one of the places of shelter for refugees and asylum seekers, people squeezed into the dark, badly ventilated rooms...

'It's better to be killed in SA'
The xenophobic attacks on foreigners living in Gauteng has not led to a surge of Zimbabweans returning to their mother country, say police and customs officials at the Beit Bridge border post...

'I expect them to kill my son'
They cut up my brother's legs and stabbed him to death.Then they set his hut alight and his little boy burnt to death..."

My other country
South Africa has millions of immigrants from African countries. Some legal, some illegal. What is it like to leave your home country and go to another country with little money and high hopes...

No refuge
Dr Irma Labuschagne, a forensic criminologist believes that the anger and frustration afflicting our society today is a result of many problems, both current and from the past...

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