(October 10th, 2006)
MASIPHUMELELE, 10 October 2006 (IRIN) - Dozens of Somalis have allegedly been killed in South Africa’s Western Cape Province in the past few months in what appears to be an escalating campaign of xenophobic violence.
(April 28th, 2006)
JOHANNESBURG, 28 April 2006 (IRIN) - South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime was officially dismantled 12 years ago, with the nation’s first democratic election. But in many communities, the violence of those years is hardly forgotten. In the early 1990s, as government officials and liberation leaders negotiated a peaceful transition of power, many local communities were […]
(February 24th, 2006)
MUSINA, 24 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Every day, Mashudu Beauty Mukavhatsindi fetches water from an outdoor tap. To get there requires an ankle-twisting walk down a potholed road, past garbage-strewn lots that reek of human waste.
A resident of the Sihlala Nge Nkani informal settlement in the South African border town of Musina, 19-year-old Mukavhatsindi lives […]
(February 17th, 2006)
MAKHADO, 17 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - In the late 1990s – still the early days of South Africa’s democracy – Joseph Makhadi couldn’t afford to continue his studies at a local technical college. He dropped out and lived, unemployed, in a humble dwelling along with 10 members of his extended family.
But in 2002, Makhadi and […]
(December 17th, 2004)
MUSINA, 17 December 2004 (PlusNews) - Two years ago Judith Nkambule (not her real name) gave birth to baby girl, but something was wrong - the child was sickly, vomiting, had diarrhoea, and eventually died.
This year, when she fell pregnant with her youngest child, the fifth of five sons, she agreed to be tested.
“I found […]
