Helping Our Neighbours
Posted in 1 on Jun 4th, 2009
—– Original Message —–
From: “Rachel Bray”
To: “Sam Pearce”
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: Save the whales, f*** the women and children
thanks Sam, you’ve eloquently expressed sentiments i share. I’m afraidthat some of the explanations i’ve heard psychologists give as to why‘we’ humans respond so much more readily to animals in distress thanhumans are [...]
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
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 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 [...]
Posted in 1 on May 22nd, 2009
By Esther Lewis
South Africans should all hang their heads in shame for 2008’s xenophobic attacks, says Mavuso Msimang, the director-general of the national Department of Home Affairs.Speaking at a vigil in Cape Town on Thursday night to mark the anniversary of the attacks, Msimang admitted his department was “not a good example for service delivery”, [...]
Posted in Press Release, Refugee, xenophobia on Jul 27th, 2008
By Dadier M. Abdalah, Freelance Writer
Copyright@ displacedrefugeenet@yahoo.com
27th June 2008
A couple of weeks ago the world was alert that South Africa has been invaded by unfolding event, xenophobia. This event was so grim and news screened by every broadcast around every corner of the world was startling and rarely comforting. Mass killing, looting and burning of [...]
Posted in Civil Society, Refugee, Volunteers on Jul 21st, 2008
19 JULY 2008
Premier Ebrahim Rasool
Director-General Virginia Petersen
Provincial Government of the Western Cape
7 Wale Street
CAPE TOWN
8001
OPEN LETTER FROM THE JOINT REFUGEE COMMITTEE OF THE WESTERN CAPE
Dear Premier Rasool,
You announced to the media on 3 July that all so-called “safety camps” will be closed by 23 July 2008 – and all government-funded humanitarian aid to refugees [...]
Posted in Refugee on Jul 21st, 2008
Bertin Mugisho Refugee
Every foreigner in some way or another has experienced xenophobia in South Africa. Even South Africans who display a physiognomy like that of a foreigner are rejected by the common South African. On the other hand, if you are white or colored in South Africa, you are more likely to be accepted. During [...]