The DA lodged a complaint with the SAHRC against comments made by Small Business Minister Lindiwe Zulu about foreign-shop owners.
Since May 2008 the government has done, on a net basis, nothing about xenophobia. The fine words are more than cancelled out by the lack of action.
Their status as asylum seekers makes it difficult for shop owners from Ethiopia, Somalia and Bengal to get licences and operate legally.
Another looting and torching incident has occurred, this time in the Alexandra township, with looters fleeing once police arrived.
Foreign shopkeepers displaced during riots in Soweto were urged by some residents to quickly make their way out. Two people have died in the unrest.
Two people have died and a foreign-owned shop burnt in Soweto since violence broke out between community members on Monday.
Hysteria has spread faster than the disease ever could, infecting prejudices everywhere.
Xenophobic violence is vividly described in Jonny Steinberg’s story of a Somali man’s search for freedom.
Poor leadership has allowed xenophobia to bloom in South Africa, causing the country to fail Africa. Or so says Dr Nkosana Moyo.
Immigrants to South Africa still face an uphill battle, but their neighbours seem happy to live and let live.
Three shopkeepers – from Brazil, Ethiopia and Somalia – eke out a living in rural Sandfontein where people struggle to make ends meet.
Police ministry spokesperson Zweli Mnisi says the newly released Human Rights Watch report creates the wrong impression of the South African police.
Displaced foreign shop owners say there is more to the violence than simply looting, as claimed by the police.
Several shops belonging to Somali nationals in KwaZakhele and New Brighton, PE, have been looted and burnt at the weekend.
Widespread looting in the township of Diepsloot is alleged to have been xenophobic, but a closer look shows otherwise.
As Diepsloot remains tense following a night of looting, experts have accused the government and police of fudging the issue of xenophobia.
Orange Farm and Sebokeng are brimming with so-called xenophobic violence but the attacks are inseparable from other issues stalking these communities.
If it wasn’t for the occasional bomb blast in Mogadishu the country would likely have fallen off the radar for many people.
Language must be one of the pillars of the struggle to ‘decolonise’ the humanities.
Kya Sands informal settlement, where 16 people were attacked earlier this week, was quiet on Thursday, Gauteng police said.
Police and the army moved into Western Cape townships on Monday following sporadic xenophobic violence.