13 July 2009, 09:57
By Louise Flanagan

Destitute people who were arrested while sleeping outside the Methodist Church in central Joburg a week ago say police beat them, insulted them, gave them electric shocks and stole their belongings.

Legal coalition tells state to ‘back off’
TOP Johannesburg criminal attorney Ian Small-Smith was one of about 15 lawyers who gave their services without charge to secure the release from prison of 245 refugees yesterday.

Cape Town - Restricting migration is no solution to South Africa's problems, and could even hamper the country's development, according to a newly-released report.

The report was compiled by the Johannesburg-based Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in SA, an NGO whose members include a range of human rights organisations.

Johannesburg — The business acumen of foreign nationals, rather than xenophobia, is being named as the trigger that led to attacks against Somalis and other migrants in the South African port city of Cape Town.

Kullan la’isugu keeney ganacsato Soomaaliyeed iyo kuwa deegaanka xaafada Gugulethu ee duleedka Cape Town ayaa lagu xaliyey shaqaaqo ka dhalatay warqado digniin ah oo loo daadiyey dukaamaleyda Soomaalida.

Waraaqaha la qeybiyey waxaa ku qorna in muddo 7 casho ah gudahood ay Soomaalida kaga guuraan Gugulethu.

15 June 2009, 06:52
By Caryn Dolley

Guguletu traders have delivered warning letters to Somali shopkeepers telling them they have seven days to leave the area.

Identical acts of intimidation preceded last year's outbreak of xenophobic violence, and foreign traders living and working in informal settlements fear they may again be violently ejected from their homes.

By Cindy Witten
13 June 2009

The City of Cape Town commissioned a study to identify the cause of tension between local and foreign spaza shop traders in Khayelitsha.

Peter Luhanga

The South African Police Services (SAPS) has been criticised for persistently maintaining that attacks on foreign nationals are not linked to xenophobia.

Standard police comment on threats that foreign nationals will be attacked — or when foreign nationals are killed — is to state that the incidents are not linked to xenophobia, but rather to criminal elements.

Sida intiina baddan aad ka war heysaan, waxaa jirrey barnaamij sanadkii hore ururka jaaliyada Soomaaliyeed ee SASA ay ku aruurisey sharciyada kumanaan Soomaali ah oo dalkani qaxooti ku ah kadib markii ay xogtaasi soo codsadeen dhinacyo ay quseyaan arrimaha qaxootiga.

May 27 2009 at 09:19AM

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By Natasha Joseph

Two Somali men who ran a spaza shop in Darling have been killed in what community members describe as a xenophobic attack.

The men, Omar Josef and Hazim Amad, died in their shop in the early hours of Sunday when it caught fire - or when, the Somali community believes, a group of locals set it alight.