Helping Our Neighbours
Posted in 1 on Jun 6th, 2009
Message from Yazeed KamaldienPLEASE PASS ON
Subject: refugees in cape town need your helphallo… just got an e-mail from volunteer tracey saunders who has worked with refugees tirelessly since the outbreak of xenophobic violence in cape town last year. she has received numerous calls today from families who need food at the blue waters safety site.here’s [...]
Posted in 1 on Jun 5th, 2009
By Caryn Dolley
Sreaming and the sound of shots flare up in the background while scores of petrified foreigners, fear evident in their eyes, run out of the dark informal settlement as police helicopters hover above.
A year later: it’s daytime, all is calm in Du Noon and children can be heard playing.
But a Somali man stands [...]
Posted in 1 on Jun 2nd, 2009
From: antieviction@googlegroups.com on behalf of Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Sent: Tue 6/2/2009 6:52 PM
Subject: Stop the bloodbath: Mass Meeting in Gugs (Wed 17h30) to air grievences and stop xenophobic pogroms
Gugulethu AEC Press Release – For immediate release
Venue: Elukhanyisweni Hall on NY74 near the Fezeka Municipal Building
Date: Wed, 3 June, 2009
Time: 17h30
There cannot be another bloodbath!
The Anti-Eviction [...]
Posted in 1 on Jun 1st, 2009
—– Original Message —–
From: tracey saunders
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:47 PM
This couldn’t possibly be a statement from the same ANC which was in charge of Provincial government in the Western Cape in October 2008?????It surely can’t be the same organisation for which Hildegaard Fast was the spokesperson and who issued the following statement [...]
Posted in 1 on Jun 1st, 2009
Peter Luhanga
1 June 2009
Nearly 400 foreign nationals, some pregnant or with young children, are holding out in one of two remaining ’safety camps’ in the City of Cape Town left over from xenophobic attacks a year ago.But the residents of Blue Waters camp in Strandfontein, who refused to budge when their camp was officially closed, [...]
Posted in 1 on May 31st, 2009
from the May 31, 2009 edition – http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0531/p06s07-woaf.html
Congolese and Somali migrants forced to flee their homes during last year’s brutal anti-foreigner violence say it’s too dangerous for them to leave the Blue Waters camp near Cape Town.
By Ian Evans | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Cape Town, South Africa
In this tourist haven, arguably [...]
Posted in 1 on May 29th, 2009
29 May 2009Anna Majavu majavua@sowetan.co.za
(pics)UP IN ARMS: A year ago, violence flared up in Cape Town and other parts of South Africa as foreigners were targeted by locals . Left: Western Cape Cope leader Mbulelo Ncedane.
FEARS of repeats of last year’s xenophobic attacks are rising among foreign nationals in the Western Cape.
This started after [...]
Posted in 1 on May 29th, 2009
29 May 2009Sowetan says:
JUST more than a year xenophobia reared its ugly head and seems to be returning to haunt SA again.
Though this is happening in Cape Town, we cannot pretend not to remember that the last time around, the violent attacks on immigrants started in one area and everyone assumed it would not spread [...]
Posted in 1 on May 28th, 2009
South Africa
Head of state and government Kgalema Motlanthe (replaced Thabo Mbeki in September)Death penalty abolitionist for all crimes Population 48.8 millionLife expectancy 50.8 yearsUnder-5 mortality (m/f) 71/60 per 1,000Adult literacy 82.4 per cent
The rights of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants were violated on a large scale. Inadequate training of police and health care providers undermined [...]
Posted in 1 on May 26th, 2009
Some xenophobia refugees in Cape Town cheated the United Nations of relief funds in 2008, according to an affidavit filed in the Cape High Court.The affidavit, by city housing director Hans Smit, forms the basis of an application for the eviction of just under 400 people from the Bluewaters safety site on the Cape Flats.They [...]