Anger at foreign nationals is misplaced and should be aimed at the ANC-led government and its failure to create jobs, says the DA’s Mmusi Maimane.
Somalians and Ethiopians living in Khayelitsha say that they are a target 24 hours a day, while young locals say that jealousy triggers the violence.
Their status as asylum seekers makes it difficult for shop owners from Ethiopia, Somalia and Bengal to get licences and operate legally.
In a xenophobic atmosphere ripe for political exploitation, only a few stand to lose as much as foreign nationals.
Community policing forum chair Moses Letsoalo blames the police for being unable to prevent the violence even though they were outnumbered by the mob.
Without a Utopia to strive for, South Africa will self-destruct, writes Breyten Breytenbach.
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Local women are banding together to combat the prejudice they and their Nigerian husbands face.
Is the media’s reporting on events such as the Diepsloot deaths with a rush to classify the potential culprits as foreigners feeding xenophobia?
Displaced foreign shop owners say there is more to the violence than simply looting, as claimed by the police.
A fight over an airtime voucher sparked xenophobic attacks in Duduza. A month later some foreign shopkeepers still live in the Nigel town hall.
Foreigners living in South Africa should learn to do as South Africans do, a community meeting in Orange Farm was told.
In the wake of recent unrest in Diepsloot, the South African National Civic Organisation has condemned "African-on-African violence".
Widespread looting in the township of Diepsloot is alleged to have been xenophobic, but a closer look shows otherwise.
Both local and international residents of Diepsloot have denied claims that xenophobia is behind two days of violence in the township.
Orange Farm and Sebokeng are brimming with so-called xenophobic violence but the attacks are inseparable from other issues stalking these communities.
At least 120 foreigners were killed last year and 250 injured, such violence has spread from the Gauteng and the Western Cape to all nine provinces.
Of all our neighbours, why are they caught up in so many of South Africa’s most tragic and shameful events?
Of all our neighbours, why are they caught up in so many of South Africa’s most tragic and shameful events?
It takes nothing away from the Marikana massacre to remember that other organised, oppressive acts of violence are going unnoticed, says Loren Landau.
Immigrants and refugees living in Mayfair in Johannesburg are living in fear after threatening, xenophobic letters began circulating in the area.
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Ethical behaviour was the major point of discussion at an education transformation forum convened by the Gordon Institute of Business Science.
A Somali-born moved to a predominantly coloured area of the Strand near Cape Town to escape xenophobia. But now he has been asked to close shop.
While people wring their hands about Julius Malema and his ramblings, the real prospect of further xenophobic attacks goes unnoticed.
The ANC in Limpopo isn’t quite sure what to do with ward councillor Tebogo Mojapelo, who was arrested for involvement in the murder of a Zimbabwean.
The Freedom Park housing settlement on the outskirts of Eldorado Park has become the centre of xenophobic mobilisation in Gauteng.
SA residents have attacked migrants in a Johannesburg township, injuring at least five people and increasing concerns of a wave of xenophobia.
It is a pity that Jacob Zuma, Nathi Mthetwa and Bheki Cele talk such blithe rubbish about the threat of attacks on foreign Africans living in SA.
Anne Marie fled the Rwandan genocide in 1994. But her new life in South African was shattered in the 2008 xenophobia attacks.
This week’s attacks on foreigners were criminal acts, not xenophobia, the South African Communist Party said on Tuesday.
Families of Zimbabwean migrants have been fleeing South Africa because they fear xenophobic attacks now that the World Cup is over.
The Western Cape was calm during the day on Monday following Sunday’s outbreak of xenophobic violence, a police spokesperson said.
As SA savoured the final days of the Cup, the government hammered out plans to use the tournament’s good spirits to stamp out anti-immigrant tensions.