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Malawi Repatriates Citizens Targeted in South Africa

Lameck Masina

   BLANTYRE, MALAWI - About 75 of the Malawians displaced by recent
   xenophobic attacks in South Africa have returned home. Malawi's
   government repatriated them on Thursday, after they spent weeks at a
   guarded camp in Johannesburg. Some say they will never go back to South
   Africa. Others are not so sure.

   Gladys Majawa left Nkhatabay district in northern Malawi five years ago
   to start a new life in South African's commercial capital,
   Johannesburg.

   "I left for South Africa alone because of poverty at home," Majawa
   said. "Some of my friends [who go to South Africa] had an opportunity
   to raise money to build houses. That's why I also decided to seek a
   fortune there."

   But attacks on foreign nationals in Johannesburg early this month
   forced Majawa to cut short her plans to stay in South Africa until next
   year.

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