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By Emmanuel Kafe
For most Africans, the rainbow nation of South Africa is a land of opportunity.
The country, which boasts of the richest gold field in the world, the Witwatersrand Basin, holds promises of milk and honey for both fortune seekers and migrant workers.
But not all is at it seems as one Zimbabwean, Munyaradzi Ngwena, recently discovered.
By Charles Kamunjoma Apparently; xenophobia – sporadic attacks against foreign nationals – has become a yearly tradition in South Africa. In a petition submitted to the South African Home Affairs this year, some of the reasons for the attacks include: predatory pricing by foreign owned hair salons, operation of illegal foreign vehicles on South African roads, […]
SOUTH AFRICA – The Nigerian federal government could be asking South Africa to pay more than R5 million in compensation to its nationals in the country following a spate of xenophobic attacks.
An advert circulating in the Zimbabwean media suggests that EFF leader Julius Malema will visit the neighbouring country on May 6 to talk about the recent xenophobic attacks that engulfed parts of South Africa.
More than 2,000 Zimbabweans displaced by xenophobic attacks in South Africa have packed their bags for home. But Zimbabwe, a country teetering on the verge of economic collapse, is unlikely to offer them the means to restart their lives.
SOUTH AFRICA — Security has been beefed up at the Durban offices of the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) after a series of violent threats.
A gang of South Africans brutally assaulted a Zimbabwean man on two separate occasions inside his Durban home, slicing off his buttocks and skinning his manhood in one of the most gruesome cases of the anti-African migrant violence gripping that country.
South African-owned shops in Malawi have remained closed after calls for a boycott from activists angered at recent xenophobic attacks.
The second batch of 333 Zimbabweans who were displaced by xenophobic attacks in Durban, South Africa, will leave for Zimbabwe this morning in a convoy of three buses and a truck.
Eighteen of the more than 400 Zimbabweans repatriated on Monday after xenophobic attacks in South Africa were severely traumatised, while 97 had mental health problems and urgently needed special counselling from Government specialists and other non-governmental organisations who set up a clinic at the International Organisation of Migration offices in Beitbridge.