The Nobel Peace Laureate Nelson Mandela, the leader of the struggle against apartheid, a charismatic figure in the country, has launched an appeal: "Please remember to what horrors we should never forget the greatness of a country that overcomes its divisions. Do not plunged back into a destructive fight. " In Cape Town, as is usual for some time, has been targeted the Somali community who runs a large number of small businesses. I despair of the African continent in recent months had sought refuge in the richest country on the continent in search of a job or are desperate fortune to flee, 22 dead and 50 wounded in Johannesburg, at the police declined to intervene, but what looked like one of the many quarrels between the poor, soon turned into a riot to xenophobic and racist, and there a general of emigrants flee after the violence began on Saturday. Among the dead and wounded men and women are burned, hacked to pieces with machetes, beaten with sticks, stones and bricks lynched. At least 5 / 6 thousand people have sought refuge in churches and police stations. They are mainly citizens of Malawi in Zimbabwe, pursued by hungry and threatened by political violence, people ran away from an unprecedented economic crisis. The wave of xenophobic spares no one: Nigerians, Congolese, Pakistani. Foreigners, as always happens (Ponticelli docet), are accused of delinquent and to take away business, work. They are serving as a scapegoat and the effects of social and economic crisis that hit South Africa where unemployment has reached 30 percent, the cost of living has risen dramatically, there are homes, crime has increased exponentially and the gap between rich and poor has become impressive. South African President Mbeki announced an inquiry "to understand what did caused a wave of violence." Zuma, president of the ruling party, the ANC and future presidential candidate next year, is went down heavy with statements that have marked the political distance separating the two men: "We should be ashamed of our behavior. We South Africans during apartheid have found refuge in foreign countries and we were treated very well. Those who escape from desperate conditions must be met with understanding. " A stab Mbeki. The President on the issue of Zimbabwe - the country fell into a terrible economic crisis cheated by the dictator Robert Mugabe - has always taken a conciliatory attitude, while Zuma believes that it should be fixed soon because it destabilizes the south of the continent. The Nobel Peace Prize, Bishop Desmond Tutu, addressed to the population. "There Please, "he said on the radio," stop immediately the violence. Those who attacked, who kill, who rape, are our brothers and sisters. We have been helped by other Africans, we suffered, we know what it means to escape from poverty. We are killing their children. Stop, I implore you: we can not disgrace our achievements. We are again returning to the years of chains and collars.
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