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South Africa's Xenophobic Violence Victims Speak Out

Thuso Khumalo

   JOHANNESBURG - Violence targeted at foreign nationals and their
   properties in South Africa has left hundreds of them displaced from
   their homes. Nearly 200 of them, including children, are housed at the
   Tsolo community hall, in Katlehong Township in the city of Ekurhuleni
   east of Johannesburg.

   Children playing, mothers chatting with sad expressions on their faces,
   while fathers are largely silent or sleeping.

   This is the situation at the Tsolo community hall, now home to foreign
   nationals who were driven out of the Mandela informal settlements by
   angry local residents early this month.

   Fibion Maimbidza, a 38-year-old father of three from Zimbabwe, is still
   struggling to accept that he is now destitute and has to depend on the
   mercy of well-wishers.

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