South Africa Anti-Immigrant March Turns Violent

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JOHANNESBURG — Anti-immigrant protesters led a violent march into South Africa’s administrative capital, Pretoria, on Friday, and the police responded with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons.

President Jacob Zuma appealed for calm and condemned the latest wave of anti-foreigner violence to grip South Africa in recent years.

“Many citizens of other countries living in South Africa are law-abiding and contribute to the economy of the country positively,” Mr. Zuma said.

“It is wrong to brandish all non-nationals as drug dealers or human traffickers,” he said. “Let us isolate those who commit such crimes and work with government to have them arrested, without stereotyping and causing harm to innocent people.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/world/africa/immigrant-protests-south-africa.html?_r=0

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South Africa: Clashes At Anti-Foreigner Protest

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39076751

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Odd story to accompany this one, SA being South Africa:

Nigerians Have Killed More South Africans - Gigaba, Sa Home Affairs Minister

This is the question posed by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba in response to a question about the figure of 116 Nigerians said to have been killed in South Africa in the past two years.


This week a senior Nigerian presidential aide on foreign affairs, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said 20 Nigerians were killed last year alone and called on the African Union to intervene in what Dabira-Erewa was quoted as saying were \"killings in South Africa\".


But Gigaba said this was the discussion South Africa would not want to get into as it would turn ugly.


\"I am not privy to the figures from the Nigerian government and how they collected them. I do not think it is the discussion we want to get into. It will turn out very bad.


Read more: http://ireporteronline.com/47645_nigerians-have-killed-more-south-africans-gigaba-sa-home-affairs-minister

This sounds like African politics, a pretty sorry rebuke of whatever problems they are facing there. "Well, Nigerians have killed more South Africans. "