Saturday, October 18, 2008

Schwartzers get second dose of Murambatsvina as Tshwane Council razes camp

Hundreds of Schwartzers immigrants, displaced by xenophobic attacks which hit most parts of South Africa ’s Gauteng Province in May, are now living under sub-human conditions, after the host government razed their safety camps.

On Monday last week, the South African government dismantled the last remaining safety camp, Akasia, in the capital Pretoria, which housed more than 300 victims of the xenophobic violence, which rocked Gauteng and left more than 60 people, most of them foreign nationals, dead.

“I will stay here because there is nowhere else for me to go. I cannot just return to those people, who chased me away in such a violent manner,” said Benson Shoko, a Zimbabwean father of two, who comes from Masvingo.

“The camps have all closed and we are re-integrating these people back to their societies. There is no way they can remain in isolation forever,” said Tshwane Mayor, Gwen Ramogkapa..... Thanks Gwen... Perhaps you meant to say... "We have razed the camps, pulled down all infrastructure there was there, shoved the people into the open and either zey reingrate or zey vil die!"

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