Xenophobia spreads in South Africa - foreign-owned shops looted

#xenophobia #johannesburg #jacobzuma #rubberbullets South Africa is faced with xenophobic attacks as attacks are carried out on foreign-owned shops which have been looted in east Johannesburg. The police are trying to restore law and order by forming a barrier between an angry crowd and the foreign-owned shops.
The crowd began to loot foreign-owned shops in the region and, about 200 foreigners took refuge at a police station while the police resorted to firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the looters. They also arrested 12 people. This has been reported in bbc.com dated 17 April 2015.

The violence has come in spite of a rally against xenophobia in the coastal city of Durban, along with condemnation from President Jacob Zuma. So far, at least five people have died in anti-foreigner attacks.
It may be recalled that migrants, mostly from other African states and Asia, have come into South Africa after the end of the white-minority rule in 1994 and many South Africans accuse these so-called outsiders of taking jobs in a country where the unemployment rate is 24%.

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