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Politics / Re: Afrophobia attacks
« on: July 08, 2010, 08:03:31 AM »
this is actually worrying, heard a Zim guy was thrown of a train the other day... for being Zimbabwean i guess *sigh* 
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A 27 year-old Zimbabwean man, Reason Wandi is ‘lucky to be alive’ after he was thrown off a train by a group of South Africans on Monday in Cape Town.
Wandi was left hospitalised in the city of Tygerberg following the apparent xenophobic attack. It follows fears that the country faces a renewed outbreak of xenophobic unrest after the 2010 World Cup, which draws to a close this weekend.
The attack on Monday took place when Wandi was travelling from his Khayelitsha home to look for work in central Cape Town. It’s understood he was hoping to apply for a job as a driver when he boarded a train to Bellville.
Speaking to journalists from his hospital bed, Wandi said he heard a group of locals talking about foreigners and how they should “go back to their country.” Travelling in the company of other Zimbabweans, Wandi said they were verbally abused while traveling on the train.
Xenophobic attacks in South Africa are often related to protests against lack of basic services and competition for scarce resources, and these tragically end in loss of life and destruction of property. About three million Zimbabweans alone have fled economic collapse in Zimbabwe to South Africa, the continent’s biggest economy, in the past decade.
According to reports, locals in Cape Town were asking why some foreigners were still around when others were going back to their countries. Pa**OP, a community based, gra** roots organisation, devoted to fighting for the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants in Cape Town, reacted with shock and outrage after learning of the attack.
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