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South Africa: Violence on immigrants
By African Bulletin on July 16, 2010
The fever of the World Cup 2010 that South Africa has organized and successfully ended, is hardly settling when the violence sparkled again in the rainbow country: in fact, dozens of immigrants took refuge in police stations, following a series of raids on foreign traders’ shops.
This event had the effect of fuelling fears of a new wave of xenophobic violence. They are estimated at one hundred twenty-four expatriates to be looking for safety in five police stations of the Western Cape Province. Days before they were even more numerous in these places because of incidents described as not very violent but that caused some minor injuries and destruction of properties.
No details have been given on the nationalities involved in the attacks, but it is known, in the past attacks, that the victims were mainly Zimbabweans…