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Subject: Terror on the streets
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bozzalad 16.04.15 - 07:30pm
A woman has become the latest victim of violent anti-immigrant protests sweeping South Africa after she was left covered in blood when rocks were thrown through her car window.So far six people are believed to have been killed in the violent protests which started two weeks ago in Durban, a key port on South Africa's Indian Ocean coast, spreading to Johannesburg.In the latest show of violence around 200 protesters, shouting that they wanted immigrants to leave the country, pelted passing vehicl * +

bozzalad 16.04.15 - 07:31pm
pelted passing vehicles and the police with rocks. * +

bozzalad 16.04.15 - 07:31pm
Carol Lloyd was forced to stop her car as she drove close to Jeppestown after she was injured after a rock smashed into her car window and shattered the glass. South African police responded to the wave of protests, which are motivated by the large number of immigrants and high unemployment rates, by firing rubber bullets and tear gas today to disperse the protesters * +

bozzalad 16.04.15 - 07:32pm
Protests began two weeks ago and six people have been killed. Dozens of foreign nationals have emptied their shops and fled over fears of attacks. President Jacob Zuma has called for the killings to stop. * +

eyesore 16.04.15 - 07:32pm
isn't feez living in Durban??? * +

bozzalad 16.04.15 - 07:32pm
'I think this now must stop, because we cannot continue killing one another. What is happening in our country is not acceptable,' Zuma told state broadcaster SABC. The ruling African National Congress party has condemned the attacks as 'shameful' and branded them 'criminal acts against vulnerable people'. In the past two weeks, shops and homes owned by Somalis, Ethiopians, Malawians and other immigrants in Durban and surrounding townships have been targeted, forcing families to flee to * +

bozzalad 16.04.15 - 07:33pm
protected by armed guards * +

bozzalad 16.04.15 - 07:34pm
Foreign nationals living near Johannesburg were today seen removing items from their shops and shutting up their stores entirely because of fears they could be targeted by protesters. They fled after a mobile phone text message was apparently sent to shop owners, warning them to shut their premises, claiming that 'Zulu people are coming to town ... to kill every foreigner on the road'. In Primrose, near Germiston and about 15km out of Johannesburg, dozens of shops have been left empty and * +

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