Not Wanted: Somalis in South Africa

Port Elizabeth (KON) - The attacks on Somali-owned shops spread like a wildfire through the townships around Port Elizabeth, a city on South Africa's southeastern coast.

Article Keydmedia Online
16 November 2013

When it was over, more than 100 small businesses mostly run by Somali nationals had been looted, some destroyed by petrol bombs, and their owners driven from the area by rampaging residents.

The scale of the violence over four days in September was unusual, but xenophobic attacks on Somalis and other African migrants in South Africa