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South Africa: Should I stay or should I go?

Downtown Johannesburg was as busy as ever on Thursday afternoon. Gospel music blared from speakers, commuters and school children wove their way through the jammed market stalls and food outlets on Noord Street before boarding the taxis crawling bumper-to-bumper up Twist Street.

23 May 2008

Trespassers will be persecuted… (Image: Laura Lopez Gonzalez/PlusNews).

On Monday it had been different. A rumour that the "foreigners", who have their stalls in the area, were next to be attacked in the xenophobic violence that has flared across South Africa's largest city since 10 May, emptied Noord Street as the Nigerian, Zimbabwean and Mozambican traders closed shop.

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