'They Must Go Home' - A Country's Stubborn Xenophobia DeutscheWelle: SouthAfrica
About 100 people affiliated to 15 organisations marched through Cape Town city centre to protest against ongoing attacks on foreign nationals across the country.South Africans have unleashed deadly waves of xenophobia on migrants from elsewhere in Africa since 2008. Fear is in the air once more as mobs prowl some places searching for undocumented migrants.at a mine dump in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, has reignigted xenophobic sentiment in South Africa.
In Krugersdorp, mobs burned shacks that house people from other parts of Africa, Some of the migrants were assaulted, others were stripped naked and paraded through streets. Analysts have warned that the developments in Krugersdorp could trigger xenophobic violence in other parts of the country. Ndanduleni believes that it is difficult for the state and law enforcement agencies to identify migrants who break the law."Because we don't have the fingerprints of those illegal immigrants, he said.Manhlo Hadebe wants all foreign nationals to be sent to their own countries. In an interview with DW, the 60-something South African said:"Legal or illegal, they are all committing crimes.
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