When the violence eventually subsided, many of the “Indians” had fled the informal settlement and the land they used to occupy was taken over.
A similar story was playing itself out south of the city, where “the other” was initially defined as the amaMpondo migrant workers from what is today known as the Eastern Cape. It didn’t take long too for the violence against “amaMpondo” to escalate to attacks against township residents. We are making the same mistake by not actively standing with, and defending, fellow Africans and other black immigrants who are victims of xenophobia.
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