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14 Apr 2015

Author:
Jeff Wicks, Mail & Guardian (So. Africa)

So. Africa: Several dead following xenophobic attacks, looting of foreign-owned shops

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'Several dead as xenophobic violence boils over in Durban', 14 Apr 2015: Several people have been killed and thousands more displaced…[following] violent attacks on the basis of ethnicity…As [police] officers battled to protect foreign nationals…locals forced their way into shops and made off with…goods before setting…shops ablaze…The upsurge in violence and criminality follows an effort from local and provincial government to reintegrate thousands of displaced foreign nationals back into their communities…The spate of xenophobic violence…follows reported remarks by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini that foreigners should “pack their bags and go home”…A Somali shopkeeper…Bashir Mahmoud (27) said…“…I worried that they might kill me…[t]he government says…we are welcome here, but that is not the truth…”… The shopkeeper…said South Africa had become hell on earth…

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