Xenophobia Violence: South Africa Records 7 Deaths
The annual ceremony , a holiday commemorating the first all-race elections in 1994The ceremony scheduled for April 27th has been postponed so South Africa can mourn the victims of xenphobia violence, which has claimed the lives of three South Africans and four foreigners.
This report was made official by the office of President Jacob Zuma on monday, April 20.
South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper published photographs of a fatal attack on a Mozambican man in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township this past weekend. Authorities arrested three suspects in the killing and are searching for a fourth suspect, the South African police force said on its Twitter account.
South African officials have provided food and shelter to more than 1,000 people who fled their homes and police have arrested more than 300 people, the government claims.
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