Attacks on Foreigners in South Africa?

Question

I have a question- about a month or two ago there were enormous pogroms against foreigners in S. Africa with many beaten, some killed and thousands driven out. The news has died down. So my questions are:

1) What is happening now? Have they all been kicked out now?

2) Were they also attacking and beating/killing white foreigners and investors from the UK and the US as well as so many Russians, Portuguese, Arabs and E. Euros that live in the country now? Because it seems that they were mostly targeting other Black people and some Pakistanis.

Would be interesting to know.

Answer 1

The Chinese are still to come.

Answer 2

At the moment the foreigners are housed in safe camps. No one has been kicked out. No white people were attacked, except for those trying to help some victims.

I'm giving you a link to a whole file on the Xenophobic attacks. Hope you can open it. It's up to date. Just scratch around in it and you'll get the info you want.

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Afric...

Answer 3

you can call SA newspapers ans ask.

Answer 4

No blacks were fighting each other (Ethnic cleansing) they do this all over Africa from time to time.  They are not attacking white foreigners.

Answer 5

I dont know whats happening now, I think everyone affected are still in refugee camps.

As far as I know it was only black people attacking other black people living in squatter camps. Regular violence and crime has stayed the same, this was just extra. It appears that the xeno. violence has stopped

Answer 6

It was on foreign news channels that they cooked a man from Mozambique just this week. From the answers so far, I guess they keep such news quiet in South Africa itself.

Answer 7

1. Things are quiet now and government is trying to reintergrate them back into the community, forgetting the countless, homeless and destitute people of South Africa. They havent even sifted through the illegals yet and more still come into the country by the day despite what happened. When some were driven out, others were still coming in.

2. No other nationalities were targeted, especially white..... Reason being, all those are here legally and would never be caught dead in such a slum to begin with.

I watched a programme last night that focused on Alexandra township. People there live in squatters in rather sickening conditions and it is quite clear that the Renewal project has done nothing for them as some have been waiting since 1996 for RDP homes that have been sold to illegals, illegally with enough bribe money to secure a house. Whereas some come in and build shanty's all willy nilly and there is no control over the amount of people who come in and build and it makes it hard for them to make the township look good as its near the most up market surburb (Sandton) and was mainly built for at least 50 000 people, but has triple that amount.... not many white people bore witness to the attcks except via the media, and non were harmed during the whole thing.

Answer 8

As the other guys have said, the foreigners are all being housed in special refugee camps for the time being. For a short time, there were hopes that the general crime level would die down - the implication being that the foreigners were actually the ones responsible for the crime - but unluckily that seems not to be the case. As bean said above, the xenophobic attacks were just more on top of the ordinary crime. Now with the foreigners in the camps, we're just back to our ordinary few thousand murders a year.