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We are coming for you. As the economy breaks down, south africas Migrant Community is in the firing line. This is a local Branch Meeting of an anti Migrant Group in orange grove, near the Johannesburg City centre. Its called Operation Dudula, and ive been given rare access. Dudula in isizulu literally means to force out. Theyre planning to go to businesses this evening and ask them about their citizenship, get details, Contact Details with them. So we had an. And it seems that this is a typical kind of Patrol Operation that they do. Officialfigures put the number of migrants in south africa ....
So we had an. And it seems that this is a typical kind of Patrol Operation that they do. Officialfigures put the number of migrants in south africa at 3. 6 million people. But with one in three south africans out of work, migrants have become an easy target. Singing as night falls, the team sets off for the high street. They sing they want to find the owner of a local shop who they say has information about a recent stabbing. As weve been walking down the main road and passing shops owned by foreign nationals, this group has been singing songs that contain slurs and also shouting very pointed slurs. Loud banging its all very confusing, and there are no police in sight. Why are you getting involved because even with the owner. This is mobjustice. Were trying to make sure that these people who are foreign nationals are respecting us and we are protected in our society. Up the street. The next. They sing as they move on, they head ....
It might not have been under ideal conditions, but Ntombizine Mtengwane was happy when she and her family were moved to temporary houses by authorities after a violent altercation between Mthatha’s Tipini residents and the Waterfall township community in 2012. This was after thousands of Tipini residents, who had turned an old dumpsite into a thriving shack-dwelling community, were accused by their neighbours of harbouring dangerous criminals. ....
Ward councillor Nwabisa Mcwabeni condemned protest action by residents of Nompumelelo in Beacon Bay on Friday, alleging that efforts to bring services to the community had been “sabotaged”. A crowd of about 100 protesters took to the streets early on Friday morning, placing four flaming barricades across the Bonza Bay Road near the entrance to the township. ....