It’s winter, the rainy season in Cape Town, which means that thousands of shack dwellers’ homes have been flooded, again.
And as the water subsides the displaced folk will be out hammering up new makeshift shelters for themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
A pregnant Congolese woman was beaten by private security guards hired by the eThekwini municipality on Thursday evening as foreign nationals displaced by xenophobia staged a sit-in on the steps of Durban’s City Hall.
Salema Moshondi, who is five-and-a-half months pregnant, was left vomiting on the floor after repeated blows to her body - including her stomach - by two security guards.
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