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 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 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
Dear All,
The SJC, TAC, FBOs and many partner organisations recently held a vigil to commemorate the outbreak of the xenophobic attacks of 2008.
The outbreak of xenophobic violence in April/May 2008, which began in Gauteng and spread to other areas of the country, represents one of the darkest periods in democratic South Africa. In the Western [...]
Posted in 1 on May 28th, 2009
> ———- Forwarded message ———-> From: koni benson > Date: Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:29 AM> Subject: Somali shopkeepers told to get out of Samora Machel by month > end or be removed>
> Hi friends>> It seems there is a resurgence of afrophobia beginning, in Western > Cape. Am sure you heard about [...]
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 Refugee on Jul 25th, 2008
By Ephraim Zuva, Freelance Writer Refugee
Copyright @displacedrefugeenet@yahoo.com
As people were moved to safe havens after their one-time brothers and sisters turned vicious and gave them an ultimatum ‘stay and die, leave and live’; resorts centres among other alternative centres like churches and mosques were opened and converted into immediate and temporary shelters.
Many sympathised, witnessed by their [...]