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13 November 2009, 10:34
A 31-year-old man has been stabbed outside the Home Affairs refugee centre in Maitland during a brawl with an alleged robber.

Police spokesman Inspector Siyabulela Vukubi said the man had been stabbed in the back and arm on Thursday and taken to hospital. He was in a stable condition.

The Department of Home Affairs has no idea how many illegal immigrants are in South Africa.

Responding to a question at a parliamentary media briefing on Thursday, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said providing such a figure was "difficult".

Nov 12, 2009 12:03 PM | By Sapa
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A Zimbabwean told the Durban Regional Court how foreigners were forced to jump from a high-rise building by people wielding bush knives in January this year.

06 November 2009
Katlego Moeng and Lerato Moche

TENSION at the Riet Family Guidance Centre in Randfontein has escalated – with its director, Ivan Kortje, claiming that Somali refugees had threatened him.

Kortje spent Monday night at the Randfontein police station . Yesterday he said he would not return to the centre until his safety was guaranteed.

2 November 2009

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By Mary-Anne Gontsana

Somalis relocated from the Bluewaters refugee camp near Strandfontein to Blikkiesdorp emergency camp in Delft, fear for their lives after being threatened with being burnt alive for allegedly jumping the housing queue.

This after residents demonstrated, and claimed the Somalis were taking their homes.

18 September 2009, 11:05
By Mary-Anne Gontsana

Three suspects were behind bars after the body of a Somali shop owner was found dumped in an open field in the Khayelitsha area yesterday morning.

Mohammed Mohammed Abdi, 28, was off-loading stock at his store in Mfuleni when two gunmen opened fire and wounded him and the driver of the bakkie, police reported.

By Francis Hweshe

With the Muslim community preparing to celebrate Eid after a month of fasting, Muslim refugees living on a city safety site say they don't have much to look forward to.

For the second consecutive Eid, the refugees, most of whom are from Somalia, will spend it in the Blue Waters Camp near Strandfontein.

A REPORT by the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Sociological Research says
heavy-handed police action may have worsened recent service-delivery
protests.
In some
cases police reaction added to the climate of violence, according to the head of
the centre, Peter Alexander. “The evidence points to police exacerbating the