In May 2008, South Africa witnessed some of the most horrific acts of violent xenophobia in its history. Scores of foreigners were injured or killed with thousands more displaced from their homes. In the aftermath of the violence, several religious and political leaders decried the attacks. However, at the beginning of the new year, it looks as if xenophobia has again erupted.
Renewed Attacks on Foreigners
On the 6th January 2009, the South African Newspaper, the Daily News reported an apparent attack on foreigners. Dasen Thathiah’s article, "They pushed my brother out of the window", recounted some of the details of the recent attacks in Durban. Thathiah reported on the case of a Tanzanian refugee who had lost two brothers to xenophobic violence in less than year. The first brother was murdered in xenophobic related attacks in Johannesburg in 2008 and the second, on the 5th January 2009,was forced out of a 6th floor window of a shelter for refugees by a marauding mob. These attacks on the shelter left a number of other foreign residents with serious injuries and three people dead.
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