A Mozambiquan casual bricklayer without papers, living in a camp with hundreds of others displaced by xenophobia near Johannesburg. Demotix / Antonella Ragazzoni. All rights reserved.
In April 2015 another wave of xenophobic violence swept over South Africa. Starting in Durban, the attacks on foreigners spread to suburbs in Johannesburg and to Cala in the eastern Cape. Between six and 15 people were killed. Thousands fled to makeshift camps and Zimbabwe and Mozambique sent buses to evacuate their citizens.
The violence started after a speech on 21 March by the Zulu king, Goodwill Zwethilini, in which he invited “foreign nationals to pack their belongings and to go back to their countries”. He claims to have been misquoted and refuses to apologise.
