What agenda is being pushed, readers?
And read the caption of the photograph carefully.
Children whose parents are immigrants to South Africa found a safe spot yesterday to eat soup and bread provided by a local Muslim community outside the city hall at Germiston, near Johannesburg. (Themba Hadebe/Associated Press)
See who is FEEDING THEM, readers?
"S. Africa military to take on violence; Immigrants face widening attacks"
JOHANNESBURG - President Thabo Mbeki yesterday called on South Africa's military to help quell widening attacks against immigrants in the nation's poorest neighborhoods, where images of riots, overwhelmed police, and burning victims have revived chilling memories of apartheid-era violence.
At least 13,000 people have been chased from their homes, often a step ahead of mobs demanding that foreigners return to their native countries. News reports put the death toll at 42, with hundreds injured.
The attacks started in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra but have spread quickly. More than 400 people have been arrested, but it remains unclear who might have organized the initial attacks....
Who ever said they were organized? And IF SO, by WHOM?
Some township residents complain that immigrants undercut wages, contribute to high crime rates, and take the best jobs and housing in economically depressed areas.
Many victims fled their homes with nothing more than a plastic bag full of possessions and the clothes they were wearing when crowds appeared wielding sharpened sticks, machetes, boards, stones, and, in some cases, guns.
Police stations in the Johannesburg area have become virtual refugee camps, with international aid groups such as Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross setting up emergency facilities. Conference rooms have been turned into feeding centers, and churches and civic groups have been organizing donation drives. But conditions for the displaced are dire.
"Now we are in a situation where people are living in absolutely unacceptable conditions," said Eric Goemaere, the top Doctors Without Borders official in South Africa. "There's no sanitation. People are scattered all over the place."