Foreign-owned spaza shops become prime targets in South Africa’s exploding extortion economy as gangs prey on immigrant business owners’ fears.
In pouring rain, Zimbabwean nationals who had gathered in large numbers outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in District Six were relocated to a Home Affairs Repatriation Centre in Epping on Sunday…
Cape Chamber warns that anti-immigrant violence driven by political incitement threatens lives, the economy and rule of law in South Africa.
A spaza shop owner and a barber from Somalia and Bangladesh say they will exercise caution on 30 June amid the planned anti-immigration protest.