This article discusses a current refugee problem in South Africa. Approximately one year ago angry mobs targeted foreigners living in African townships and "brutally" attacked them for 2 weeks straight. Due to the attacks on the townships many foreigners fled their home and went to the safest place from possibly being attacked again; South Africa. Many of these immigrants are from neighboring countries such as Zimbabwe and Mozambique and have no where else to go. Unfortunately these immigrants quickly became hated because they were, "stealing" jobs from poor South Africans. To cope with this problem the government put the immigrants in temporary camps until the violence subsided. By now, most of the camps have been discontinued as much of the fighting has died down, but their is still one operating camp housing immigrants and the government wants them to be shut down. The problem is that it's still way too dangerous for the remaining immigrants (from Somali and Congolese) to return to their home country. The city council has gone to court in order to try and evict the remaining residents of the camp but lawyers for the local camps are trying to "stave" off these efforts. Immigrants living in the camps have been struggling to live peacefully as the locals have sent death threat, attacked, and even raped the refugees. But even with all of the adversity the immigrants are facing they still feel it is safer then going anywhere else, where the would probably be killed.
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