South African immigrants afraid to return home - 22 May 08

Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, has ordered the army to deploy troops to quell violence against foreigners.

This marks the first time for the South African army to combat violence in the streets since the end of apartheid in 1994.

The attacks on immigrants began last week, costing the lives of more than 42 people and 16,000 displaced.

Yvonne Ndege, Al Jazeera's correspondent in South Africa, reports on the violence that is being fuelled by the perception among some poor South Africans, that the immigrants are robbing them of jobs and other scarce resources.

Most of the foreigners have fled from the economic and political turmoil gripping Zimbabwe. Others are from Mozambique, with more than 3,000 of them having already left South Africa.

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[Celtic450]

Jesus racist black south africans!!

[RapidCS]

I am sure the many murdered victims across the world and their families would disagree with you. I am sure they wonder how racistly aggressive a 5 year old girl must have been to deserve a gang rape or 1 year old deserve to be shot in the head. You see you argument falls flat on its face because the victims of these groups arent nazi skinheads attacking blacks, but poor defenseless woman and children. When i read your reply i thought: here we go again with the excuses...

[gingerbasher22]

@brasrica Unfortunately we're not dumb crackers, we're trying to change the world for the better. This racism has to stop because there's bigger problems than the colour of our skin. And an educated black guy would tell you the same thing.

[brasrica]

@graham640 stfu dumb cracker!!

[Ayisiens]

@PaleBunnyBaconEater lol "they boycotted scouth africa,pressured them politically"? ;).they did pressured black politically.now your catching on.

[90rashad]

@graham640 omg irishman saying the n word, race of people who claim they been oppressed

[graham640]

torture them nigers to death that what your sort deserve black trash

[Lordangers]

Why doesn't that Zimbabwean get the Police to take back his home? Because they are completely incompetant. They too hate the immigrants and they spend more time on the street's striking for better pay then they go around the streets actually doing their job.

[moftahsowrdsx]

so i did not know sorry blke pep i hate blk tahy say the blk kill us

[malfini1]

@PaleBunnyBaconEater Actually we love our American brothers!

[PaleBunnyBaconEater]

@7blackphantom7 WOW you are also a fucking liar, what a surprise. You know absolutely NOTHING about crime statistics, especially in other countries. Black South Africa is the rape capital and child rape capital of the world, the murder capital of the world. And that's black on black and black on white. the number one cause of death is AIDS, a woman is more likely to be raped than learn how to read. Get your shit together before making up your bitter poison fairy tales LIAR.