
Xenophobic South African mobs: ‘We are sanitising’
Residents of areas in Thokoza cite frustration about their own mass unemployment to justify evicting migrant neighbours and burning their property in the streets.
Residents of areas in Thokoza cite frustration about their own mass unemployment to justify evicting migrant neighbours and burning their property in the streets.
Migrants living in Johannesburg’s inner city have been hard hit by the Covid-19 lockdown, which has made their struggle for survival even more difficult than it already was.
Racist and xenophobic politicians have abused the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent national lockdowns to bang the drum for their chauvinism and propaganda.
Following ongoing violent attacks on mostly migrant long-distance truck drivers, the South African Human Rights Commission is trying to uncover the reasons they are targeted.
A delegation trying to help refugees who have decamped from the UNHCR offices to a church in Cape Town has accused a refugee leader with a violent streak of assault and deceiving the protesters.
The outgoing mayor’s tweet about the arrest statistics of migrants in Johannesburg over four years displays both his bigotry and a misunderstanding of how crime and policing work.
The police physically removed refugees seeking to leave South Africa amid xenophobic attacks, carrying out a court order against the protesters camped outside the UNHCR office.
A shared culture and history bind Ethiopians living and working in central Johannesburg. It is what keeps them going when the police raid their businesses and xenophobic attacks threaten their safety.