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South Africans warned of Mozambique retaliation
Laos News.Net
Saturday 24th May, 2008
South Africans in neighbouring Mozambique are fleeing the country and Mozambican authorities are on high alert amid fears of retaliation for the xenophobic violence against Mozambicans in South Africa.
The Afrikaans daily Beeld has reported that thousands of South African tourists were streaming over the border-post at Ressano Garcia.
The Mozambican government was reported to have ascribed this to a precautionary measure against the possibility that Mozambicans could turn against them in the aftermath of the xenophobic violence that has wracked South Africa in the past fortnight.
Orlando Cossa, Mozambique's head of immigration said: "Where the normal traffic for returning South Africans over the border is about 100 vehicles daily, in the past four days this has risen to up to 600 per day."
South African authorities confirmed that a far greater number of South Africans had also been coming back at the Lebombo border post with Mozambique.
Expectations increased that an equal number of vehicles would cross into both countries this weekend, with busloads of Mozambicans who had sought refuge or work in South Africa headed home.
Mozambican authorities are expecting that over 10,000 of their citizens are on their way home, while a South African working in Mozambique said there was increasing anger against his compatriots there by locals.
The source who preferred to remain anonymous said Mozambicans were "sick of the TV images about the violence that is being broadcast here."
He said he expected that locals would "wreak vengeance on all that is South African".
These fears were confirmed by Mozambican police spokesman Arnaldo Chefo, who told Beeld that they had received hundreds of telephone calls from angry Mozambicans threatening revenge attacks on South African businesses' in the capital, Maputo.
Many South African businesses have been active in Mozambique as the economy there began growing again after two decades of civil war following independence from Portugal.  Email this story to a friend
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05-24-08, 10:01 AM |
South Africans warned of Mozambique retaliation
South Africa’s true colors slowly revealing itself. The crime. The separatist. The bigotry beyond “black” and “white”.
Some forgot that it often requires an understanding of “have” and “have not” and “have potential”. That determine a country’s state of being. It would be sad for South Africa to now break-up in to the ethnic enclaves where tribe and race supersedes a unified governed state. I’ve heard of the crazy crime. The government must buckle down on these rampant crimials while removing corruptions too. The experiment remains on edge. The peaceful transition in the 90s could just as well be lost in a moment. The black leadership might have to be as tough on their people, to instill discipline, as the former S. African white governments. From here, S. Africa has to focus on education and strick rule of law. There has to be another generation of hope.
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Anonymous
05-24-08, 02:55 PM |
I dont know about slowly. TV here showing people being beaten by South Africans. Some to death while local Police just stand by watching in front of cameras. Rule of law - Who’s Law. No different from friggin Zim mob. What ever happend to the emerging South Africa the world respected.
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