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Diepsloot: Crime, xenophobia - or both?

Mail & Guardian reports: As Diepsloot remains tense following a night of looting, experts have accused the government and police of fudging the issue of xenophobia. (...)

Foreigners have been at the centre of two incidents of violence in Gauteng over the past few days, which has seen their businesses attacked and looted.

Last week Friday, several foreign owned shops in Orange Farm and nearby Sedibeng were looted during service delivery protests.

Then, on Sunday two Zimbabweans were shot dead, allegedly by a Somali shopkeeper after an apparent argument. Residents began protesting and looted 19 foreign-owned shops after the men were killed. (...) Read more.


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17.5.2013 International conference on transitional justice in Zimbabwe - Conference report (4-6 October 2012)