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...Muyumba thought he was done with killing when he left the Democratic Republic of Congo. After civil war erupted there in 1998, he watched friends, family and millions of his countrymen die as neighbor turned on neighbor. Seven years ago, he arrived in South Africa, the continent's richest country, to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor in Africa's best schools. Now, seeking refuge from murderous crowds in a central Johannesburg police station, he feels as vulnerable as he did back in Congo. "They're our own neighbors - we lived together, and I gave them food," he says...
...dark truth: xenophobia can be as much about poverty as skin color. The grim tide of killing, raping, burning and hacking that has torn through the northeastern province of Gauteng is centered on shanty towns such as Alexandra and Kya Sand that form a ring of destitution around Africa's commercial capital. While South Africa's overall economy grows at a steady 4% to 5% and Johannesburg's business district accounts for 9% of Africa's GDP, according to the province's economic development agency, on the city's outskirts lives have changed little since apartheid. Many families live...
...angry disillusionment of South Africa's poor has another very visible symptom: some of the world's worst violent crime. South Africa's police have been quick to blame the riots on the same criminals who, every 24 hours, murder an average of 52 people in South Africa. President Thabo Mbeki, whose official residence in Pretoria was burgled in May, has acknowledged the threat inequality presents, but insists his government is bridging the divisions of the past. More than a million new homes have been built since apartheid ended in 1994, and Mbeki has now named a high-level government...
...Despite those big changes, Mwelu says he still shoots images similar to the first photographs he took as a young teenager: "Daily life and good things like people laughing." With the heavy dose of bad news out of Africa, that laughter is rare indeed...
...billion Damages sought in a U.S. class action against more than 50 companies that did business in South Africa during the apartheid...