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The May 2008 South African riots was a wave of xenophobic riots starting in Alexandra, Gauteng (a neighborhood of Johannesburg) on 12 May 2008 and then spreading to other locations across South Africa. The violence started when South African residents of Alexandra attacked migrants from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, killing two people and ...
In June/July 2008 the grassroots photographic project Shooting Jozi [12] [13] inspired by the Academy award-winning documentary Born into Brothels took place in Alexandra with local community members. In May 2008 a series of xenophobic attacks that took place throughout South Africa started in Alexandra Township. Foreigners including ...
The proportion of South Africa's total population that is foreign born increased from 2.8% in 2005 to 7% in 2019, according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration, [6] [7] South Africa is the largest recipient of immigrants on the African continent.
Vilakazi was born in August 1977. [1] She was born and raised in Alexandra, a township outside Johannesburg. [2] Her mother was a bookkeeper. [3] She attended primary school in Alexandra, [4] but, supported by a Rotary Fund scholarship, [3] she matriculated at St Enda's Secondary School in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. [2]
Operation Dudula is an organisation which turned into a political party in South Africa. The group is widely recognised as being xenophobic, [1] and has been linked with violently threatening and targeting both legal and illegal migrants. [2]
The Alexandra Renewal Project (ARP) is an urban renewal project in Alexandra, Gauteng, northern Johannesburg, South Africa. [1] [2] The project is one of eight urban nodes of the "Integrated Sustainable Rural Development and Urban Renewal Programme" announced by President Thabo Mbeki in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament on 9 February 2001.
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe (Sotho: [ˈkxɑ.le.mɑ mʊ.ˈtɬʼɑ.n.tʰɛ]; [2] born 19 July 1949) is a South African politician who served as the 3rd president of South Africa from 25 September 2008 to 9 May 2009, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki. Thereafter, he was deputy president under Jacob Zuma from 9 May 2009 to 26 May 2014.
Mathabane was born in Alexandra, South Africa, an area that is a part of Johannesburg, the capital of the province of Gauteng. [1] He was born to a life of poverty in the apartheid political setting of South Africa. [2] His father was Jackson Mathabane, [3] a Venda labourer who had an income of $10 a month. [4]