Foreign-owned shops in South Africa have been attacked and looted in east Johannesburg, the latest in a series of xenophobic attacks.

A standoff developed in the city, with police forming a barrier between an angry crowd and foreign-owned shops.

The violence comes despite Thursday's rally against xenophobia in the coastal city of Durban, and condemnation from President Jacob Zuma.

At least five people have died in anti-foreigner attacks in recent weeks.
Migrants, mostly from other African states and Asia, have moved to South Africa in large numbers since white-minority rule ended in 1994.Many South Africans accuse them of taking jobs in a country where the unemployment rate is 24%.

A crowd began looting foreign-owned shops in east Johannesburg on Thursday night. About about 200 foreigners took refuge at a police station.

Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the looters and arrested 12 people.
A new standoff began in the eastern suburb of Jeppestown on Friday, as police sought to prevent people from attacking more shops.

Police used rubber bullets to disperse a group of migrants in Johannesburg who had armed themselves with machetes for protection.Eyewitness: Raphael Nkomo, a Zimbabwean living and working in Johannesburg

What I saw when I was going to the shops on Thursday evening, it was so terrible.

A group of men were dropped from a mini bus, and all of them were armed with pangas, a [type of] very big knife.

They started chasing people, throwing stones at them. Some were even knifed.

We had to run for cover. We ended up in the shops, and the owners closed the shops while we were still inside until the police were called.

What I saw was terrifying, and if it continues like this by the time the government wakes up many people will be dead. It is very, very bad.

Africans call for South Africa boycott

The acting Premier of the Gauteng province around Johannesburg, Qedani Mahlangu, called on "each and every South African who's a peace-loving South African to stand up and condemn this."

On Thursday President Zuma condemned the recent xenophobic attacks as "shocking".

"No amount of frustration or anger can justify the attacks on foreign nationals and the looting of their shops," he told parliament on Thursday.

Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has been accused of fuelling the attacks by saying that foreigners should "go back to their countries". However, he said that his comments had been distorted.At least 62 people died in xenophobic attacks in South Africa in 2008.

Regional reaction:

"Zimbabwe has to have its economy working again so that its citizens are not hunted like animals in foreign lands. The xenophobia is not only a shame for South Africa, but for the continent at large." - Zimbabwe's Newsday.about two million foreign nationals in South Africa, about 4% of the total population. But some estimates put the number of immigrants at five million.

Many South Africans are against the violence, but are also unhappy with the level of immigration and feel they are being undercut by immigrants from poorer countries, our correspondent adds.The police have established 24-hour centres to clamp down on attacks on foreign nationals,

Several African states have said they are prepared to help their nationals return home.

Amid fears of reprisal attacks, energy and chemical giant Sasol said it would repatriate more than 300 South Africans working in Mozambique.


"As Malawians, let us collectively take a stand to show our anger. For starters, let us boycott South African business empires." - Malawi's Nyasa Times

"The most worrying thing is that all of this in happened South Africa amidst the quasi-indifference from the authorities. It took a dozen days of deadly violence in Durban for the president to be roused to action." - Burkina Faso's L'Observateur.


SOURCE: http://hottestdaniel..com/2015/04/south-africa-shops-looted-despite-zuma.html

South africa mumu ehh ...mtchwww..smh

They've eventually forgotten what they're even fight for.

African continent blessed with natural resources but cursed with bad leadership .For the past two weeks over 2500 foreigners displaced more than 10killed in Durban area .The mayor(governor) said "we condemned it"No action .Zuma said "we condemn it No action .He address the nation on Thursday afternoon by evening Jeppetown and Primose townships were bombed and foreigners shops looted .Is that a leader?He keep condemning No action .

south African blurred vision. its been predicted that after Mandela the country will be headless . lazy thwarts that cant see beyond their nose, country full of resources but with inept and corrupt leader like Jacob zuma. very happy to dismantle statues of a dead white man but afraid to confront a living one.
apartheid brain.

Davido's house in SA was reportedly looted today.

cjrane:
Davido's house in SA was reportedly looted today.

what source bros?They are looting stores for food o not residential areas.This your info is false most of these looting took place at township kind of local areas .Most Nigerians don't stay in your places .Na dat area Davido go buy house?u lie o

1). Nigeria at the very minimum has played a role in helping to liberate nearly a 1/3rd of all countries on the continent. Nigeria has given more federal aid relief to other African countries than every single African nation put together.

2). Nigeria was the first person to go to South Africa's aid during apartheid, and acted as their biggest ally throughout their entire transition into a democratic state. They went far above and beyond than any other nation, and that is a fact. Learn your African history, please.

3). Nigeria not only granted South Africans tens of billions in aid, but sent an innumerable arsenal of military relief and supplies too. After apartheid ended Nigeria released several millions from her federal purse by offering Black South Africans to come school at the best Nigerian universities on full-ride scholarships.

4). Keep in mind education here is extremely competitive and expensive, but the government felt it to be more important promoting free degree attainment among indigenous South Africans at the expense of native Nigerians being denied merited admissions by their own country as a result.

5). Nigeria donated tens of millions to aid Zimbabwe's ANC ridding the country of an oppressive political party. It was called the South African Relief Fund (SARF), and it was entirely proposed and launched by the Nigerian government. In addition to to the donated millions, for many years we also included 2% of every Nigerian civil servant salary in this fund as well.

6). Nigeria gave $10 million to Zambia and supplied them with military hardware to stop Rhodesian raids in the country in support of their transition to national security.

7). Nigeria also sends the most Black soldiers on peacekeeping missions both inside and outside of Africa than other country in the world. We have never allowed a country's proximity to ours as a barometer for aiding or inaction. Despite the UN still shuffling their feet reimbursing us the tens of millions we've used in fighting the battles of other countries, Nigeria still continues deploying our soldiers to the foreign nations with little resources anyway.

cool. Nigeria spearheaded the creation of ECOMOG, the Economic Community of West African Peacekeeping, as an assured means of regional security. Despite ECOMOG being comprised of several member-states, Nigeria was the only country to contribute the monetary financing and armed forced for its maintenance.

9). Nigeria spent $7+ billion we of course will NEVER see again fighting Liberia's Civil War while every other West African country said they were "too poor". (Apparently too poor in resources to even offer a solution that was relative to their country too). Did the rest of Africa even know or care? Nigeria also housed Liberian refugees in urban cities during both the war and the war as well.

10). Nigerians died in Darfur trying to help stop genocide. Nigerians have died in Somalia tying to help stop terrorism. Nigerians have died in Sierra Leone fighting ethnic cleansing. Nigerians were dying in Mali keeping their government from being overturned by rebels, and many, many more we have advocated for with military assistance and financial support throughout Africa.

11). Under the Nigerian Technical Assistance Corp (TAC) program, we have sent our trained personnel everywhere from Ethiopia to Haiti, and still continue to do so. It is an international-volunteering service created by our government in the '80s to assist African & Diasporic countries in progressing their socioeconomic development.

12). The African Development Bank is comprised of three entities, one of which is the Nigerian Trust Fund. Nigeria is literally the only African country on the continent who can both receive and lend loans from the AfDB because we helped create and finance it to begin with, largely from our oil wealth to enrich everyone else. Nigeria still has the largest voting block in Africa, and it's because of this we've been able to give millions in developmental funding in Africa every single year since it's inception in the '70s.

13). Despite Nigeria's own problem with removing the food scarcity among her own citizens, we still have sent food aid we didn't even "have" to nations such as Zambia, Tanzania, and other African nations who have been caught in the wake of famine crisis and food shortages.

14). As long as Nigeria has been a commercial oil exporter we have always supplied our crude and natural gas to other African countries at a subsidized cost due to a principle of solidarity. Nigeria still continued to do so even after we found out that quite a few of you were illegally selling it back on the black market at near market rate. *side-eye*

15). Nigeria is a country that can't even provide electricity to all of her indigenes, and yet ironically we continue exporting liquified natural gas to generate the power-plants in other African countries while we routinely have their citizens snickering at the frequent outages seen in Nigeria. Yet if we started laughing at giving them pitch black hospitals we'd be wrong though...

16). Similarly, when Nigeria first saw the growing issue with Ebola they were the first country in the world to send aid by creating a multi-million ECOWAS Pool Fund for Ebola. Even when a Liberian "brought" ebola to Nigeria in the most horrendous, and malicious way imaginable, we still responded by sending planes full of hospital supplies and released an extra $1,000,000 in financial aid to Liberia in return.

17). Once Nigeria was declared Ebola free the country trained and sent 591 medical professionals to the three effected countries from the first volunteer group alone. This number is more than what the African Union was able to provide using every other country except Nigeria combined.

18). Nigeria gave $1,000,000 in aid each for the Hurricane Katrina & Haitian Earthquake tragedy. Nigerians in government had once forfeited one month's salary to help Guyana's civil service meet it's payroll. While people chastise Nigeria's overpaid political appointees, we have a long history of cutting percentages of their monthly salary to send as aid to Black countries both inside and outside of Africa in more immediate need.

19). Again, through Nigeria's Technical Assistance Corps (TAC), the country annually deploys thousands of trained medical staff to Caribbean & Pacific nations. There are many Nigerian volunteers working the health sectors in South America and in the West Indies as doctors and pharmacists, but also university professors and lawyers as well.

20). Nigerian political officials used their combined wealth to extend the legacies of Blacks by creating a scholarship program at Howard University for anyone majoring in African Studies. The idea was that future generations shouldn't have to take out large loans to get a degree on their own history, and to this day students are still able to apply for school grants by writing a simple essay.