Bleak New Year looms for Joburg’s Chinese community The combined effects of lockdown and lingering prejudice and suspicion around the origins of the virus first detected in China mean it s been a tough year for this community. The entrance to Chinatown in Cyrildene, Johannesburg, in February 2021. Picture Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News
61 days ago
CYRILDENE - Businesses in Chinatown in Johannesburg say their financial troubles are piling up with the combined effect of lockdowns and lingering prejudice putting their livelihoods in jeopardy.
Today, exactly a year ago,
Eyewitness News visited the community of Cyrildene when they were facing discrimination weeks after the coronavirus broke out in Wuhan in China in December 2019.