South African Attacks Spreading
Police Call Attack On Durban Tavern Owner "Public Violence"
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A man from Malawi lays wounded as he waits for paramedics after he tried to return to his shack to gather his belongings in the Reiger Park informal settlement outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, May 21, 2008. (AP)
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The bodies of two victims of ongoing violence are removed in the back of a police vehicle from a squatter settlement east of Johannesburg Monday, May 19, 2008. (AP Photo)
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A policewoman assists a man who was set alight in Reiger Park, south of Johannesburg, Sunday May 18, 2008. Mobs went on the rampage in a frenzy of anti-foreigner hatred throughout poor suburbs with at least seven people reported dead. (AP Photo/Simphiwe Nkwali)
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No one was injured in attack Tuesday night in Durban, police spokeswoman Phindile Radebe said. She said it was not clear yet whether the tavern owner was foreign, and the case was being investigated as "public violence."
Police remained on the scene Wednesday and the area was under control, Radebe said.
It nonetheless raised concerns that the xenophobic violence resulting in more than 20 deaths in and around the commercial capital of Johannesburg in recent weeks could spread elsewhere in South Africa. Johannesburg is about 350 miles (600 kilometers) northwest of Durban.
In Johannesburg, police spokesman Govindsamy Mariemuthoo said Wednesday that the situation had calmed and the death toll stood at 22.
But there were reports of scattered violence. The victims included a Malawian who said he was beaten up when he tried to return to his shack to gather his belongings in a squatter settlement east of Johannesburg.
Aid groups in the Johannesburg area said as many as 13,000 people had been displaced by the violence, most of it targeting Zimbabweans, Malawians, Mozambicans and other foreigners living alongside South Africans in squatter camps.
South Africa is more prosperous than its neighbors but suffers high unemployment and widespread housing problems, especially among the black majority.
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Posted by Questionnews
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The professional and educated have been killed or run off and the unskilled and ignorant are violently in charge.
Posted by natenvtech at 07:09 PM
Yeah but do you have the support systems available to eliminate all waste water and liquid waste issues?
Tee hee.
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by keithle1
May 24, 2008 10:13 AM EDT
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