There is a lot of confusion here. No one in the camps for internally displaced people understands how they pose a threat to South Africans - nor why they're being killed for trying to make a living.
Foreigners living in the cramped camps are ordinary barbers, cashiers, security guards, and corner-store owners unaccustomed to being targets of hatred and violence.
"We are just creating so when they say we are taking [jobs] from them, they are totally wrong," said Amuri Djuma, 32, from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Meeting the refugees fleeing xenophobic violence |
"Even if we leave there still won't be jobs in South Africa. They will still be asking for jobs."
More than 5 ,000 people were displaced after deadly violence against foreign nationals erupted on March 30 in the country's coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, whose capital is Durban.
Attacks soon spread to the country's financial hub, Johannesburg, in Gauteng province.
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