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- Cape Somalis 'still being threatened'
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A Somali-born moved to a predominantly coloured area of the Strand near Cape Town to escape xenophobia. But now he has been asked to close shop.
- Bias, brigandry and the prophets of doom
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"The mysterious incompatibility of bias and brigandry" sums up the government's curious responses to the current xenophobic violence.
- No justice for burning man
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While police action this time around has been swift, justice for many of those involved in the xenophobic attacks has been painfully slow.
- Police ensure that all's quiet on the Western front
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By day the 26-year-old SA woman sells vetkoek and apples on a bustling street in Du Noon, at night she sleeps at the home of her Malawian friend.
- Police action calms fears
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Some foreigners are slowly going back to their homes, but others remain cautious.
- Talk of violence played down, but security is tight
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South African authorities might be denying a xenophobic upsurge in the wake of the World Cup, but they are taking no chances.
- Zim sets up tents for nationals fleeing SA
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Zimbabwe has set up temporary shelters for scores of its nationals leaving South Africa following threats of attacks on foreigners, an official said.
- Still no xenophobia for Mthethwa
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Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa insisted on Friday that the recent violence in the Western Cape was "so-called" rather than actual xenophobia.
- Africa's brain gain
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"Migration has been happening since time immemorial. The United States was built as a nation of immigrants. Migration happens. Fact."
- 'You never forget the past'
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Anne Marie fled the Rwandan genocide in 1994. But her new life in South African was shattered in the 2008 xenophobia attacks.
