Right...of course...sure... Attack not xenophobic — community

A MOB attack in Durban at the weekend that claimed the lives of two foreigners and critically injured a third was not an act of xenophobia, a community meeting has resolved.

Refugees held after clashing with police Flames of Hate South Africans and foreign nationals agreed at the meeting, which was held in the city centre yesterday, that Sunday’s attack on a nearby building was a reaction to spiralling crime in the area. ANC ward councillor Vusi Khoza, who convened the meeting, said the community and foreign nationals had buried their differences over the incident. On Sunday, about 20 South African men and women, carrying knobkerries, bush knives and broomsticks, forced themselves into a building in Maude Mfusi Street, where Malawians, Tanzanians, Mozambicans and Zimbabweans were living. The foreigners ran for cover as the mob approached, hiding under beds and locking themselves in bathrooms. Three terrified men jumped out of the high building to protect themselves. Zane Omari said his younger brother, Said, was pushed out of a sixth-floor window by the mob. Said later died in hospital. The two other injured men were taken to hospital where one died and the other remains in a critical condition. Their nationalities have not yet been confirmed. Omari’s older brother, Ramadhani, was killed in Gauteng last year when xenophobic attacks claimed the lives of dozens of foreign nationals. The Times