City Press interviewed residents where there is still resentment after violence erupted in Durban Road, Korsten, this week. Eight minibus taxis, a car and four shops were reduced to ashes following a road rage incident between a taxi operator and a Somali businessperson.
We didn’t come here to take over their businesses. We ran away from hostile environments in our country“We really like the local people and we try our best to work with them and respect them. They welcomed us into their country and we view them as our brothers and sisters. Yes, there are some Somali nationals who are criminals, but don’t paint all of us with the same brush.
“These people must go back to their country. During the looting in July, it was the taxi associations that protected their properties. We formed human chains to protect all the businesses here in Korsten, but now they burn our shops and destroy our livelihoods. We’re angry,” said Catazo.“How will the owners of those burnt taxis put food on the table for their families? Some of those burnt vehicles weren’t even insured.
Of all the people City Press spoke to, only one said he liked the Somalis as they were helpful to locals.
First time i see cowereds like those Gqeberha taxi drivers i don't think they are South Africans.
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No need tom Somalians must just vamoos to Somalia
NomaZarZar Somalians need to go. It's like apartheid in the form of african foreigners now. It's bullshit. They have their own countries
Wnot be surprised if Boko Haram and Al Shabaab already have cells in this country ! Mayfair in Joburg has now turned a small Mogadishu !
Wasn't it mixture of Somali and Indian shop owners?
In the apartheid years like I was told, things like these would never ever have happened. ANC is a curse, a mistake and a regret. Mafias are coming to SA to do as they please. SAPoliceService SANDF_ZA be ashamed of yourselves.
Send them back home
Who shook the jar?
So sad. The residents must be terrified at their town turbed war zone.
I'm South African the blame is South Africans who think are entitled to everything including laziness. All other Africans are hardworking except South Africans.
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Get them out
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Thought the name change would restore peace
How do they get those retail spaces they trade in towns and cities specifically ? I smell a rat. Some SAfricans are complicit in this explosive situation
Blame it on the potholes
But why would you want to take over someone else's home? That's unheard of😟
Deport them
And if you look at this pic closely you won't see any somali it's just that south africans are obsessed with somalis
The blacks are no match for the zomaliz,.Somaliz are more worried about the big boys from the west (usa army etc).remember they generate a lot of cash in south africa than anywhere else.
That's what happens when real problems are swept under the carpet. SA is in a crisis state and the so called leaders are doing nothing about it!
Not black South Africans but yaxi owners. You promoting xenophobia. Taxi owners must fight their battles and do what they did protectin malls. Asizi!
The problem is the 'black' South Africans classification hence the fact that there is no such thing as 'black' Somalians
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