Darshan Vigneswaran: COMMENT
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/ 8 June 2007

Police leave foreigners in the lurch

The South African Police Service has again been accused of standing by as about 40 foreign-owned businesses were attacked and looted in Schweizer-Reneke’s black township recently. Three of the businesses in Ipelegeng were also burned as the Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Somali and Ethiopian traders, many of them lawful asylum-seekers, fled the township and went into hiding.