Informal Traders Alliance condemns attacks on foreign traders 12 March 2021 - 14:11 Police attend to a protest in central Durban on Monday. The organisation representing informal traders condemned these attacks and called on police to maintain a presence in the affected areas. Image: Supplied
The South African Informal Traders Alliance (Saita) has called on the police to monitor attacks on foreign traders and maintain a presence in affected areas until the situation returns to normal.
“We are also calling on government to explore, in consultation with Saita, new measures and laws to discourage such acts of violence against our foreign-based brothers and sisters,” said Saita president Rosheda Muller.
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2021-03-09 02:30:29 GMT2021-03-09 10:30:29(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JOHANNESBURG, March 9 (Xinhua) The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Monday condemned the recent attacks directed at foreign nationals in the city centre of Durban.
The condemnation came after shops owned by migrants were attacked allegedly by members of the uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), a military wing of the ruling African National Congress. The SAHRC is deeply concerned by the recent attacks on non-nationals, which commenced on Sunday . at the Soldiers Way Market trading precinct/area in the Durban CBD that left several non-nationals including women injured and traumatised, the commission said in a statement.
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Abdul Balma, a street vendor in central Durban was stabbed several times and his merchandise torched on Monday according to eyewitnesses.
Balma, originally from Burkina Faso, and another man, from Senegal, were assaulted during the incident which took place at the corner of Ingcuce (Albert) and Bertha Mkhize (Victoria) streets.
According to eyewitnesses, Balma was set upon by a group of about ten men who said immigrants must leave South Africa.
A South African national, who did not want to be named, said the men poured petrol on the clothes Balma sells and set them alight. She said he was brave to have stood up to them, but “they started beating him and he was stabbed”.