South Africa’s government has vowed
to crack down on xenophobic violence, after arresting more than 300 people for
a range of crimes against migrants.
Authorities said on Sunday in
Johannesburg that 307 suspects had been arrested for a range of xenophobic-related
crimes.
Security agencies have also
increased the police presence on the ground after at least eight deaths in
anti-immigrant violence in the past week.
“They have actually pushed other
people to leave their own comfort zones, their homes,” David Mahlobo, the
Minister of State Security, said.
More than 1,000 people have been
displaced after violence against foreign nationals flared up on March 30 in the
country’s coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, whose capital is Durban.
The attacks soon spread inland to
the country’s financial hub, Johannesburg, in Gauteng province.
On Saturday, another two people were
reported killed, bringing the death toll in the latest wave of attacks to
eight, South African police said.
Meanwhile, an uneasy calm prevailed
in Johannesburg on Sunday, on the third day since violence against foreigners
erupted in the city.
Lieutenant Colonel Lungelo Dlamini
told Al Jazeera that no violent incidents occurred overnight or on
Sunday.
South Africa arrests 307 over attacks on foreigners
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