Remember the civili violence in South Africa during the month of May 2008? 20.000 foreigners had to be displaced and 60 were killed, mostly in Gauteng, where the violence started.
A report from Johannesburg University of Witwatersrand now warns that such violence will rise again. The report warns that civil violence will soon rise again and that neither government nor civil society is ready to provide effective protection.
Jody Kollapen of the SA Human Rights Commission also shared his concern that "we may have inadvertently exported xenophobia into Africa, especially when many people fled the violence in South Africa with no counselling or debriefing."
The repot is a must-read.
