Experts said that foreigners in South Africa are still at risk of abuse a year after the wave of violence that has targeted over the two weeks that left 62 people dead and displaced thousands more.

The population of Alexandria, north of the settlement south of Johannesburg, had been in the atheist ten from May a year ago, the attack on foreigners who are in life, where they accused of Bmzahmthm in jobs and housing and to engage in crime.

In the weeks that followed this incident of violence has spread to other towns and cities throughout the country, including in Cape Town, but most of the killings took place in Johannesburg.

Many of the victims were killed in a manner very heinous abuse, with beating or burning to death by crowds of frenzied mobs. In some cases, the perpetrators took the homes and possessions of their victims, who came mostly from neighboring countries such as Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi.

A statement by one of the organizations of civil society on the foreign affairs of refugees in South Africa face constant threats of violence to assault them.

The statement said that the authorities "did not do nothing to stem the merits mention of the root causes of violence," and pointed out that the phenomenon of vigilante groups is still common, often under the guise of fighting crime.

She blamed the organization for failing to contain the tensions in the poor areas the lack of a mechanism to resolve conflicts and appealed to the newly elected President Jacob Zuma to give priority to this issue.

 

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