‘Even my neighbours, people I have lived with for 13 years, were shouting: “He should go. He is a Kalanga” A week ago gardener Lovemore Sibanda lived in a single-roomed self-built house in Alexandra township. He now lives in his employer’s back garden. This is his story, as told to Percy Zvumoya.
The police station teems with scores of aid workers, journalists and displaced foreigners from Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique. The victims of the xenophobic attacks are dishevelled and dirty, having slept in the open at the police station since Sunday. Some have managed to rescue a bag or a bicycle, but most escaped with only the clothes on their bodies. Now they long to be among familiar people who speak familiar tongues.
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/ 7 September 2007
A British diplomatic source in Harare has described reports that China is scaling down its presence in Zimbabwe as a "gross exaggeration". China has moved in to fill the vacuum left in Zimbabwe by the West and has signed a number of agreements and secured several trade deals.