Helping Our Neighbours
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 4th, 2009
4 June 2009
The situation and treatment of xenophobia victims at the Central Methodist Church in the Johannesburg CBD is still dire.This is according to Methodist Bishop Paul Verryn.“Xenophobia is still a very real issue here in South Africa,” he says. “We are all at risk. We are not through the dangers of xenophobia.”He said: “Sometimes [...]
Posted in 1 on Jun 3rd, 2009
This article is in the print edition of The Sowetan today by Anna Majavu3rd June 2009
The police, political leaders, and government officials are not taking the growing wave of xenophobia seriously, and are even “colluding with local business” to make sure that xenophobic attacks against so-called foreign traders go unpunished.
That is the view of xenophobia [...]
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 2nd, 2009
MSF launches new report: “No Refuge, Access Denied: Medical and Humanitarian Needs of Zimbabweans in South Africa”. MSF is calling on the government of South Africa and United Nations (UN) agencies to urgently address the specific humanitarian needs of vulnerable Zimbabweans falling through the cracks of South African society.Download the report …here
Johannesburg/Brussels Violence, sexual abuse, [...]
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
I am finding all this fuss about the whales fascinating. I was at Longbeach on Saturday, and was struck by the similarity of the plight of the pod of 55 whales that beached themselves at Kommetjie this weekend and the 1000s of people who found themselves washed up at Soetwater at the end of May [...]
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 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 [...]