Johannesburg violence: Foreign workers targeted by jobless
Mobs have taken their frustrations out on the streets, often targeting businesses owned by other Africans as well as Asians.
South African police say the attacks on foreign workers in Johannesburg last month were launched by unemployed hostel residents.
The hostels, leftover from the apartheid era, house thousands of rural workers from across the country. Many are jobless and blame foreigners for unemployment and worsening crime.
Some experts say sentiments like these are the fault of politicians who have used anti-immigrant rhetoric to boost their popularity.
Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports.
Published On 16 Sep 2019