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Media: Traders to distance themselves in peace bid

July 01, 2009 Edition 1 Caryn Dolley – Cape Times IN an effort to keep the peace between the two groups, local and Somali traders in Gugulethu today plan to start moving their stores so they are at least 100 metres apart. It is not yet clear how long

The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign - on Jul 3, 2009, 11:47 am

The Times - UK ‘more violent than South Africa’

We South Africans have got used to foreign journalists like PETER HITCHENS rubbishing South Africa in their columns, but now one of the papers he writes for has had to admit that violent crime in Britain is worse than in South Africa.The Times - UK ‘more violent than South

Notes from underground - on Jul 3, 2009, 9:50 am

Thursday: the GVG on wine for revolting food

The late Elizabeth David was the foodie’s food writer. Her “most revolting dish ever devised” was an Italian salad: Ingredients: 1 pint cold cooked macaroni ½ pint cooked or tinned pears ½ pint grated raw carrot French dressing to moisten 2 heaped tablespoons minced onion ½

The Times Planet Blog - on Jul 3, 2009, 4:32 am

The Hypocrisy of American Democracy

By Solomon Comissiong "I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here

World Wrestling Entertainment endorses calling Samoan's - on Jul 2, 2009, 2:30 am

AS I SEE IT

Afrophobia or xenophobia?

Cheetah Index - on Jun 30, 2009, 5:22 pm

Somalis Taste South Africa Xenophobia

CAPE TOWN – Muhidin Hajji Mohammed, a Somali immigrant, was sorting out goods at his small shop near Cape Town when a group of mob showed up..

Israeli Death Haunts Gaza Kids - on Jun 27, 2009, 3:01 am

Somalis Taste South Africa Xenophobia

CAPE TOWN – Muhidin Hajji Mohammed, a Somali immigrant, was sorting out goods at his small shop near Cape Town when a group of mob showed up..

Bosnia Islamic Revival - on Jun 27, 2009, 3:01 am

Somalis Taste South Africa Xenophobia

CAPE TOWN – Muhidin Hajji Mohammed, a Somali immigrant, was sorting out goods at his small shop near Cape Town when a group of mob showed up..

Donot Force Aussie Muslims Into Ghettoes - on Jun 27, 2009, 3:01 am

Our image as a nation of scammers (I)

By Farooq A. KperogiThe following first appeared in my column in the Weekly Trust of July 19, 2006This week, I will attempt to recapture what I wrote in my now stolen laptop. It is about Nigeria’s increasingly unflattering image as a nation of con artists and ruthless criminals. In

Notes From Atlanta - on Jun 26, 2009, 3:23 pm

Ukraine: “Lady Ethnographer”

Maria Sonevytsky of My Simferopol Home writes on being a “lady ethnographer” in Ukraine and on xenophobia in Crimea: “Ukraine today is caught between two warring accounts of history, as it is caught between two different attitudes towards otherness, be it gendered, ethnic or raced otherness.”

Global Voices - on Jun 25, 2009, 9:22 pm

News covering this hot topic

TAKE2: Price-fixing as a solution to xenophobia

Collusion appears to be the South African way of doing business. If it's not bakeries, it's milk producers.

Mail & Guardian - on Jun 24, 2009, 10:21 am

Barricading borders not solution: report

Restricting migration is no solution to South Africa's problems, and could even hamper the country's development, according to a newly-released report.The report was compiled by the Johannesburg-based Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in SA, an NGO whose members include a range of human rights organisations.The report said that as

The Times - Breaking News - on Jun 23, 2009, 1:41 pm

Eto’o to fight xenophobia

Cameroon soccer star Samuel Eto’o is set to visit South Africa to kick off a campaign to combat xenophobia and racism in SA.

News24 - on Jun 23, 2009, 7:23 am

Xenophobia ‘often ignored’

Racism against black foreigners from other African countries is often excluded from discourse about racism in South Africa, the First Apartheid Archive Conference has heard.

News24 - Africa - on Jun 18, 2009, 2:03 pm

Xenophobia ‘often ignored’

Racism against black foreigners from other African countries is often excluded from discourse about racism in South Africa, the First Apartheid Archive Conference has heard.

News24 - on Jun 18, 2009, 2:03 pm

Xenophobia ‘often ignored’

Racism against black foreigners from other African countries is often excluded from discourse about racism in South Africa, the First Apartheid Archive Conference has heard.

News24 - on Jun 18, 2009, 2:03 pm

Xenophobia 'excluded from dialogue on racism'

Racism against black foreigners is often excluded from discourse about racism in South Africa, a conference heard on Thursday.

Mail & Guardian - on Jun 18, 2009, 12:51 pm

Xenophobia not the reason for tension

XENOPHOBIA is not the reason behind tensions between local spaza shop owners and their foreign counterparts.The City of Cape Town commissioned a study into the violence between the two groups in 2008 and this week it released preliminary findings. "The study confirmed that the root cause of trader tension

The Times - Breaking News - on Jun 12, 2009, 6:17 pm

Police probe judge’s death

Post-mortem rcan’t confirm heart attack CAPE Town police launched a murder investigation yesterday after the body of acting Judge Patrick Maqubela was found in his Sea Point apartment wrapped in a sheet with a bloody pillow covering his face.After the discovery on Sunday, police announced that he had died

The Times - Breaking News - on Jun 10, 2009, 12:06 am

Workshop on reporting xenophobia

Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), in partnership with the South African Editors Forum, Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA), is holding a one-day stakeholder workshop and strategy meeting: 'Reporting on Race, Racism, Migrants and Xenophobia in the Community/Small Commercial Media' in Johannesburg on 4 June. Read full

Biz Community - Marketing News - on Jun 4, 2009, 10:34 am