Foreigners in South Africa

I found an article talking about South Africa and it's violence towards foreigners. It mentioned that in South Africa foreigners are being beaten due to the natives in South Africa thinking they are stealing work and being involved in criminal activity. The article mentions that over 1,000 foreigners have fled from their home due to the recent killings, beatings, and burning of property. The article went into detail showing that South Africa took to social media to cause harm as well. The government showed little to no action on the violence. The article gave plenty of examples of tweets that were against the way South Africa was acting.

I found this article particularly interesting because I have a friend who's father lives in South Africa and he also visits this country a lot. My friend has never mentioned any criminal activity going on. I found this article very disturbing due to the violence and the government not taking any action. I was happy to read some of the tweets that the article mentioned dealing with people speaking out against South Africa and the way they were acting towards foreigners. Overall, I hope South Africa finds a better way of dealing with this problem other than violence. They have to remember they have South African's all over the continent of Africa.

"Is South Africa Off Limits to Other Africans? · Global Voices." Global Voices Overall RSS 20. Creative Commons Attribution, 16 Apr. 2015. Web. 06 May 2015.

https://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/04/16/is-south-africa-off-limits-to-other-africans/