Migrants in South Africa fear for their lives - 20 May 08

For more than a week, South Africa's poor have unleashed their fury on migrants. At least 24 people have died in the attacks.

South African leaders are now trying to bring the situation under control.

Kalay Maistry, Al Jazeera's correspondent in South Africa, says that police are out in force, but thousands of foreign workers who fled their homes in Johannesburg's townships after gangs of youths began targeting them, say they are still too terrified to go back.

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[Quy4life]

i'm not white but i do think Africa was best under apartheid!!!!!

[Shukria123]

After being oppressed under Apartheid, South Africans blacks should know better.

Shame on them.

[samayangel105]

@Shukria123 Actually, all this happens more because South African blacks still feel the urge to rebel against absolutely everything that isn't native, if you get where I'm coming from. Take a look at the psychology behind it, it's quite fascinating.

[iLoveDJIBOUTI]

@somalisoulja1 WTF suicide bombers you are crazy stop acting like a arab

[somalisoulja1]

fuck south africa, Somalia will send suicide bombers to south africa if they dont stop attackin East Africans....stupid niggaz should still be under their white masters

[eljaable]

SHAME ON WHITES. FUCKING SLAVE MASTERS!!!

[MoreDanYouKnow]

police battle to keep calm by firing bullets in homes...

[123456750298]

@bakkerrich1979 hahahahahahaha, good one, i think though that he showed us he has a good sense of humour through what happened to eugene terreblanche.

[123456750298]

@Quy4life that comment just lets me know that you have never seen or experienced any real racism. do you think just because you are non-white that its ok to say something like that? trust me my friend, as a non-white person you would have suffered a lot. you have no idea what it was like at all, thats why you think such an ignorant comment could ever make sense.