South African activists condemn attacks on migrant workers – A statement from South Africa’s Anti-Privatization Forum.

Also, a statement from NEHAWU, “the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union” in South Africa, on the violence.

Anti-Immigrant Violence Continues in S. Africa The violence continued to rage on Monday, as police fired rubber bullets and made arrests to try to quell the violence in and around Johannesburg, and said the death toll had reached 22, The Associated Press reported…Thousands of panicked foreigners — many of them Zimbabweans who have fled their own country’s economic collapse — have now deserted their ramshackle dwellings and tin-walled squatter hovels to take refuge in churches and police stations.

Alex mayhem aggravated by government foreign policy shortcomings The inadequate response to the refugee or illegal immigrant problem is aggravated by a foreign policy shortcoming, namely Pretoria’s failure to acknowledge, fully, that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe and that it has repercussions beyond its own borders…If it did acknowledge the crisis fully, it might by now have mobilised the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and other UN relief agencies fully to help address the problem…Perhaps the government could have received UN funding to address some of the needs of the Zimbabweans. (Peter Fabricius, Independent Online)

Struggle for meagre resources fuels terror in the townships Tensions between South Africans and migrant workers have been brewing for some time in Johannesburg’s townships…Nowhere was this more palpable than in places such as Tembisa, Alexandra and Thembelihle. Five years ago, these townships were far away from the luxuries of South Africa’s most famous township, Soweto. Thembelihle, to the south-west of the city, had no paved roads, sanitation or regular electricity. And it wasn’t about to get any. (Felicity Carus, the Guardian)

It was a sprawling mass of shacks that housed 5,000 people in homes made from recycled bricks and rusting corrugated iron. Even so, some householders maintained well kept gardens, with fruit trees in blossom…In 2002, it had been the target of forced evictions, still a sharp reminder of the hard tactics of the apartheid government.

Even as the Zimbabwean crisis began to escalate at the beginning of the decade, the South African authorities may have thought they were doing their Zimbabwean neighbours a favour by turning a blind eye to this sudden influx of immigrants…But they were flooding into the poorest places where the little that South African townships had to offer – work and access to healthcare or resources — was not always shared willingly.

Deadly haven for refugees of Zimbabwe The night-time rampages have turned police stations in several townships in the Johannesburg area into virtual refugee camps, with makeshift tents, portable toilets and clusters of terrified people, many displaying wounds from the attacks. Many have vowed never to return to their looted houses but have few options when their own nations are experiencing a dearth of economic opportunities, or, in the case of Zimbabwe, a devastating political crisis and inflation that has topped 165,000 per cent. (Celean Jacobsen, Sydney Morning Herald)

Rand on fire A warning that the ongoing xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa has the potential of sparking a serious civil war, has been sounded by foreign affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma…Speaking at the African National Congress Women’s League conference in Durban at the weekend, Dlamini-Zuma said South Africans needed to stop attacks on foreigners to prevent a full scale civil war. (Independent Online)

“What is happening is very dangerous because South Africa is a diverse country. We have more Swazis in South Africa than in Swaziland, many more Batswana here than in Botswana and more Basotho in South Africa than in Lesotho. So it is clear that the attacks can spark a civil war if they are allowed to continue,” said Dlamini-Zuma.

Anti-foreigner violence is natural. It’s shocking how jews have flooded the USA and Europe with illegal immigrants to destroy society, culture, law and order, democracy, education, religion, health care and civilisation.

It’s good to see some fighting back against illegal immigrants. In the UK millions want to see immigrants driven into the sea (where they belong).

Chi, Don’t you have some Fourth Reich to start somewhere?