Foreigners flee South Africa xenophobia attacks
September 10, 2019
11:05 am
Beverlyn Nyamakwenje was fast asleep in her home in the east Johannesburg township of Katlehong when she was woken by gunshots.
Instructed by her panicked father, the 19-year old Zimbabwean grabbed a few belongings and fled with him to a police station for safety.
“We left our bags,” Nyamakwenje said. “We only took two minutes.”
Nyamakwenje is one of around 850 people who have taken refuge in halls set up for foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence in the Joburg region, a municipal spokesman said.
The door and windows of her little home have been smashed and the rooms wrecked. Everything …
