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Violence hits women hard

Romi Fuller MORE than 50 people have died, hundreds have been injured and thousands displaced in the wave of xenophobic violence that swept across South Africa in recent weeks. While ...

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Nigeria to claim for xenophobia

News 24 Special Report--Xenophobia 28 May 2008 Johannesburg - South Africa faced the prospect on Wednesday of a compensation claim from Nigeria over anti-immigrant violence, as aid groups struggled to cope with the ...

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Scarcity sets fire to SA's xenophobic tinderbox

Romi Fuller and Nahla Valji IN JANUARY, acts of violence and intimidation were perpetrated against foreigners in Soshanguve. In March, foreigners' home-based businesses were vandalised and items stolen in Atteridgeville West. In ...

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Zimbabwe Opposition Scoffs At Committee to Investigate Violence

Peter Clottey Washington, D.C. Clottey Interview With Glen Mpani - Download (MP3) Clottey Interview With Glen Mpani - Listen (MP3) Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for ...

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Rights groups slam 'slow' government response

Government response to the ongoing xenophobic attacks in Gauteng is inadequate as the issue needs to be addressed as a "state of emergency", a coalition of human rights groups said in Johannesburg on ...

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Burning the welcome mat

JOHANNESBURG, (IRIN) - The death toll in a wave of attacks targeting foreigners around South Africa's main city of Johannesburg has reportedly risen to 22, with an estimated 6,000 people seeking shelter ...

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Alexandra, South Africa: Frustration boils over into violence

FRANNY RABKIN   IN DECEMBER 1994 and January 1995, armed groups in Alexandra destroyed the homes of suspected illegal immigrants. They marched them to the local police station and demanded that they ...

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