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...couple of weeks ago, most of the Zimbabweans who'd managed to establish themselves here in Africa's richest economy might have scoffed at Tsvangirai's invitation. But amid ongoing violence against immigrants in different parts of the country - and the South African authorities resolved to deploy the military to restore order where necessary - areas such as Alexandra have been rapidly emptied of foreigners. For now, most of the 15,000 people displaced in the attacks have sought refuge in police stations, churches and community centers. (Though thousands more refugees have likely found their way to friends and families living...
...France who even knows who kitsch artist Jeff Koons is - much less why he's sharing a tribute with Helen Keller, Hans Blix and Jacques Cousteau. And you don't have to be a rabid (Groucho) Marxist to turn down membership in a club that includes murderous Central African Republic "Emperor" Jean-Bédel Bokassa...
...past. More than a million new homes have been built since apartheid ended in 1994, and Mbeki has now named a high-level government committee to examine the causes of the violence. Yet critics insist Mbeki and his government are part of the problem. Last November, the South African Institute of Race Relations estimated that 4.2 million people were living on $1 a day in 2005, up from 1.9 million in 1996, two years after the end of apartheid. On May 21, the institute castigated Mbeki's performance, listing crime, unemployment, education and corruption as key failures. "In failing...
...sure, that conditioning began under apartheid. For many years, violence in the townships was understandable; it escapes no one that the hot spots of anti-immigrant brutality today were the furnaces of anti-apartheid rebellion two decades ago. More than one African government has pointed out that since South African rebels were then given safe harbor in neighboring countries, the millions of foreign Africans now in South Africa might reasonably expect the favor would be returned today...
...South Africa and found work as a security guard. Now comes the reckoning. "I was at work when my friends called me to tell me that my house was on fire," he says. "On my way into town, a mob attacked me with sticks." Arriving at hospital, "the South African doctor told me: all you foreigners must go home." Kasanda's damning verdict on South Africa: "There is no help, and it's not safe here...