July 01, 2009 Edition 1
Caryn Dolley – Cape Times
IN an effort to keep the peace between the two groups, local and Somali traders in Gugulethu today plan to start moving their stores so they are at least 100 metres apart.
It is not yet clear how long the process will take or how many shops need to be moved. Read the rest of this entry »
By Mandisi Majavu – IPS News
CAPE TOWN, Jun 19 (IPS) – “My worry is that my children are going to be slaves because they won’t have anything. These foreign people come to South Africa with nothing, but tomorrow he has cash, third day he owns a shop and fourth day he has a car. Where do these foreign people get this money?”
Small business owners are venting their frustrations on ‘foreign nationals’ – among them many Somalis – who own shops in the country’s townships, causing experts to warn that xenophobic violence could increase. Read the rest of this entry »
By Caryn Dolley
15 June 2009, 19:57
Source: IOL
Local traders who sent warning letters to Somali shopkeepers telling them they had to get out of Gugulethu by the end of the week have apologised for their intimidating behaviour. And they now say the Somalis are welcome to stay in the area. Read the rest of this entry »
Gugulethu traders have delivered warning letters to Somali shopkeepers telling them they have seven days to leave the area. Read the rest of this entry »
June 03, 2009 Edition 2
Source: Cape Times
THE Anti-Eviction Campaign arranged a second meeting today of Guguletu business people and residents “to prevent the renewed xenophobia that has been sweeping Cape Town”. Read the rest of this entry »
The police, political leaders, and government officials are not taking the growing wave of xenophobia seriously, and are even “colluding with local business” to make sure that xenophobic attacks against so-called foreign traders go unpunished.
That is the view of xenophobia expert, and director of the University of the Witwatersrand’s Forced Migration Studies unit, Dr Loren Landau. Read the rest of this entry »
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