It’s a year since South Africa virulent xenophobia made it to the mass media.
City Press reports that an ANC councilor has appeared in court over an incident in January this year.
A SENIOR ANC councillor in the Ethekwini municipality, Vusi Khoza, appeared in the Durban magistrate court this morning facing charges of murder and attempted murder.
The state alleges that Khoza and eight others were instrumental in the assault of foreign nationals at Africa House on Broad Street in January this year.
The incident left two dead and one critically injured. Khoza and a mob accused the foreign nationals, mostly Tanzanians, of being behind the crime wave in the area.
Some people jumped from the sixth floor of the building when Khoza and his mob allegedly confronted them.
The same paper reports of a Nigerian man who was put out of his house in the Cape.
“By 4pm, about 100 people had gathered outside the house, demanding him to leave the township.
Eight police officers arrived at the scene and calmed down the crowd.
Community member Phumeza Menta said Du Noon residents did not want drugs in the township.
She denied the crowd was being xenophobic, saying that South Africans believed to be dealing in drugs would also be targeted. “We don’t care where he goes from.”
Resident Nicholas Boyi said: “The guy is suspected of many things yet the police set him free all the time.”
The Nigerian man – known by the community as Emmanuel – refused to speak to the media.
Above the entrance to his rented RDP house he had written the name “Jesus”.
Next to the front door he had put up a sign that warned people to “beware of bad snake”.”
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