The past few weeks, South Africans have seen many videos of shops being looted. This time, the shop owners fought back.
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BBC covers SA violence. MTN loses R6 billion in 45 mins. Wonga collapses. Kenya Airways killing SAA. Lady Di’s burka. Kirsten’s new gig. Gerard Depardieu rape accusations. Jamie Oliver’s restaurant nightmare.
Many foreigners who live and work in South Africa fear for their safety. The reasons for this aren’t just as simple as competition for employment.
As conversations about land reach an all time high in South Africa, Hermanus descended into chaos after some people were told a piece of land was theirs for the taking.
The world isn’t exactly looking at South Africa through rose-coloured glasses at present, that much we know. Mandy Wiener says it might be worse than we think.
It seems there are multiple reasons as to why there is so much anger towards our fellow Africans in this country, but here’s one I haven’t heard before.
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Donald Trump, multibillionaire and owner of the worst toupee in history, took to Twitter to inform us of his lowly opinion of our country. Cue the reactionary attacks.
Now in a world where ISIS beheadings are a daily occurrence it takes something pretty special to grab CNN’s front page. Looks like we have done it.
South African business across the continent are feeling the backlash of our xenophobic attacks. Even the big guys like Sasol, Shoprite and MTN are coming under fire.
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The finger-pointing regarding the xenophobic attacks extended into parliament when Julius took his opportunity to lay into JZ and his family.
We’ve seen the pictures but what happens inside an angry mob waiting to follow their king’s orders and attack foreigners? Some very brave reporters found out.
South Africa is in the spotlight and it’s not a good one – we have the whole African continent on the verge of ganging up against us because of a few pig-headed individuals.
Zapiro, the guy who pens the pictures that speak a thousand words. His latest cartoon regarding that Zulu king seems to hit the nail on the head.
This weekend brought yet more videos and images of attacks on foreigners. One story in particular grabbed the national headlines, with the graphic images difficult to look at.
Zuma cancels trip. Mugabe shocked at violence. De Lille crowned new leader. Elephant kills hunter. Clarkson had cancer scare before fracas. Star Wars plot revealed. Titanic deckchair sells for fortune. Bobbi Kristina is awake.
Ranjeni Munusamy from the Daily Maverick gives us a thoroughly thought-provoking piece on xenophobia and the real state of our nation.
Peace march upset. Rhodes custodians worried. Wikileaks pubishes Sony documents. MH370 searching in the wrong place. Jonathan doesn’t need help for Boko Haram. Afrikaans man’s ties to the mob.
It’s good and well sending out tweets with the hashtag #saynotoxenophobia, but will that really bring King Goodwill Zwelithini to task? This might do the job.
Amidst claims that the Zulu leader was misquoted and misinterpreted by the media some folks sat down and translated his infamous speech at Pongola last month. It ain’t pretty.
As we watch the violence escalate across the country many of us are asking where it all went wrong. Here’s an expert’s take on the matter.
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South Africa is not running around with the best reputation at the moment and it’s not very hard to see why everyone is talking about us in a not very rose-coloured light.
Police have taken to using force in order to stop a foreign nationals march in central Durban. Here’s how it all went down.
DStv has recently graciously lifted its self-imposed suspension of Nando’s “Diversity” anti-xenophobia ad. But it seems this incredibly generous move by DStv has gone unappreciated by Nando’s. The restaurant-chain says it won’t be spending any money to have that advert flighted on DStv.
Not one of South Africa’s TV channels have had the balls to show the new Nando’s TV advert. So TopTV has decided to step up and teach the rest a lesson in freedom of speech. They say it should be up to the public to choose whether or not they want to watch it.
Less than a week ago Nando’s launched their popular #Diversity campaign, which celebrates SA’s rich cultural heritage. Shortly afterward, local channels banned the television ad, which they claimed “trivialises xenophobia” and “could be deemed offensive”. Nando’s are not having it.
Very disturbing video footage has emerged – involving security guards beating foreign nationals with sjamboks outside a home affairs office in Pretoria. The foreigners were waiting in a queue to renew their refugee papers.