Attacks in South Africa target foreign workers -24 May 2008

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Al Jazeera's Kalay Maistry reports on the attacks in South Africa on foreign workers. Most of those targeted by the attacks are Zimbabweans and Somalis. Maistry has spoken to a Somali victim of the violence in the north west province. South African soldiers have shot and killed a man in a slum east of Johannesburg. It happened as police were trying to suppress township violence that has targeted migrants in South Africa. Meanwhile, several hundred people joined a march in protest at the attacks in Johannesburg. At least 42 people have died, and thousands have fled their homes.

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Uploaded: May 24th, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
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