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Fearful immigrants shut Johannesburg shops as anti-foreigner violence rages

15/04/2015
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Reuters) – Immigrants in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest commercial city, shut their shops on Wednesday as a wave of anti-foreigner violence that has killed four people near the city of Durban threatened to spread, police said.

South Africa has erected safe camps in Durban, a key port on South Africa’s Indian Ocean coast, for fleeing immigrants, whose shops were looted and burnt in the two-week old violence.

There were no reports of looting or violence in Johannesburg, the epicenter of the 2008 xenophobic attacks that killed more than 60 people.

“Foreigners in Johannesburg have been observed closing their shops. We don’t know why but police are keeping an eye on the situation,” Johannesburg police spokesman Wayne Minnaar said.

A mobile phone text message sent to shop owners warned them to shut their premises, claiming that “Zulu people are coming to town … to kill every foreigner on the road”.

One shopkeeper selling shoes, kept his shop open. “The guys are scared that is why they are closing,” said the shop owner who said he was Pakistani and gave his name as Rashid.

On the street outside a row of shuttered shops, a tall muscular man, who said he was Ethiopian, gave his first name as David and said “We are ready, we will fight.”

South Africa, with a population of about 50 million, is home to an estimated 5 million immigrants. Unemployment is around 25 percent and youth joblessness is nearer to 40 percent.

Some politicians and residents say some of the immigrants are in the country illegally and accused them of committing crimes and taking over local shops and jobs.

Some foreign nationals say they are legally in the country, running businesses to provide services for the residents.

Source: Reuters

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