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Shame on fellow South Africans!
How is it possible?
Your own brother and sister turn to be your enemy?
Violence draging the poorest of the poor against each other have killed 22 people in South Africa and created bitter frustration with the government's failure to deliver enough jobs, housing and schools, meaning that basic human life.
Police brought in reinforcements as violence hopped from slums to slums in scenes reminiscent of some of the bloodiest days of apartheid. Most of the victims have been immigrants from Zimbabwe and elsewhere in Africa living in squatter camps.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu made an impassioned plea Monday for the violence to end. "Please stop. Please stop the violence now," he said in a statement. "These are our sisters and brothers."
Tutu said that when South Africans were fighting apartheid, they were supported by people worldwide. "We can't repay them by killing their children," he said. "We can't disgrace our struggle by these acts of violence."
President Thabo Mbeki reiterated his call for an immediate stop to the attacks, saying "nothing can justify it" and that police will get to the "root of this anarchy."
South Africans are struggling to buy food as prices rise amid stubbornly high unemployment, and many complain the government hasn't worked fast enough to build houses, schools and hospitals for the black majority.
South Africans are struggling to buy food as prices rise amid stubbornly high unemployment, and many complain the government hasn't worked fast enough to build houses, schools and hospitals for the black majority. Foreigners were attacked because they are seen as competing for scarce resources - and because they were the closest targets at hand for the poor.
Your own brother and sister turn to be your enemy?
Violence draging the poorest of the poor against each other have killed 22 people in South Africa and created bitter frustration with the government's failure to deliver enough jobs, housing and schools, meaning that basic human life.
Police brought in reinforcements as violence hopped from slums to slums in scenes reminiscent of some of the bloodiest days of apartheid. Most of the victims have been immigrants from Zimbabwe and elsewhere in Africa living in squatter camps.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu made an impassioned plea Monday for the violence to end. "Please stop. Please stop the violence now," he said in a statement. "These are our sisters and brothers."
It is not right for Africans discriminating other Africans only because of their own status as refugees in the country. We tend to live together in order to help one another, and enable our children to come and build and develop Africa as a whole and not as just one country benefits.
Tutu said that when South Africans were fighting apartheid, they were supported by people worldwide. "We can't repay them by killing their children," he said. "We can't disgrace our struggle by these acts of violence."
President Thabo Mbeki reiterated his call for an immediate stop to the attacks, saying "nothing can justify it" and that police will get to the "root of this anarchy."
South Africans are struggling to buy food as prices rise amid stubbornly high unemployment, and many complain the government hasn't worked fast enough to build houses, schools and hospitals for the black majority.
South Africans are struggling to buy food as prices rise amid stubbornly high unemployment, and many complain the government hasn't worked fast enough to build houses, schools and hospitals for the black majority. Foreigners were attacked because they are seen as competing for scarce resources - and because they were the closest targets at hand for the poor.
Creative mind
Wabongo washerehekea!!
