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 4th, 2009
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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 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 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
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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 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 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 27th, 2009
If anyone has men’s or teenage boy’s clothing that they would like to donate to the Adonis Musati Project, which works with refugees, I’d be grateful if you could contact me. This project has been working with refugees since 2007 and, among other things, distributes clothing to refugees and assists them in setting up their [...]
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”, [...]