Zimbabwe newspaper reports that xenophobia-victim Mrs Nauma Garusa 41, was beheaded and cut into six pieces...
SA police deny that she was a xenophobia victim -
Two different versions of the woman's horrific deaths were reported in South African and Zimbabwean newspapers:
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VERSION ONE: (Zimbabwe: interviews with family) 26 April 2015 - Johannesburg, South Africa. A relative of a Zimbabwean woman was beheaded and cut into six pieces'.''
Her brother Brian told the Zimbabwe Herald that she was the sole breadwinner to her children following the death of her husband and she had done so well as to be able to send one of them to university. When we started seeing images of xenophobic attacks on tV we never imagined that our own flesh and blood could soon be a victim,' said Brian Mhondiwa after her funeral service. His sister was reported missing on Thursday (this was reported on 20 April 2015) after some xenophobic disturbances in Johannesburg. She worked at a house in Houghton. The following day her body was found by police in a nearby bushy area with her head decapitated. Mr Mhondiwa said relatives in South Africa had confirmed that his sister had been attacked 'by marauding xenophobic elements who targeted her as she came from her workplace. She has been working in South Africa since 2002 and her papers, including a work permit, were in order. We just don't understand how fellow Africans could do this to another human being. We urge our Government to urgently deal with this matter as most deaths are not being reported,' mr Mhondiwa said.
http://www.herald.co.zw/xenophobia-zim-woman-decapitated/
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VERSION TWO: The Gauteng police claim that the victim, Naume Garusa 41, was however "not a victim of xenophobic violence'.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Decapitated-Zim-woman-not-victim-of-xenophobic-violence-police-20150420
-- also Decapitated Zim woman not victim of xenophobic violence - police
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Mrs Garusa's body was found in Killarney on April 14. She was buried in her home near Chiredzi in southern Zimbabwe this week, the Herald reported at the weekend. Her sister, Nyembezi Garusa said: "I am
still shocked. I was the first to see my sister's remains at the mortuary. Her body was cut into six pieces. I think the assailants used a machete to cut off the head, both arms and limbs." The victim's brother
Richard Garusa told the Herald he believed " it was a premeditated attack.' Mrs Garusa, who has one child, disappeared after she was summoned by an unidentified caller at the gate of the house the worked at
in Houghton last week. Zimbabwe's MP for the Chiredzi district where the woman was born, 'believed the murder was an act of xenophobia", according to the Herald. "It is painful that we continue to lose many
lives owing to xenophobia," Gwanetsa said. There are very few details surrounding the death Mrs Garusa other than that she was hacked to pieces and was found in the bushes near her workplace, decapitated. There's no information as to whether she had been 'robbed'. The SA Police service has thus far confirmed the death of only one Zimbabwean citizen in the wave of xenophobia which has swept through three provinces of South Africa. News24 writes that 'anecdotal evidence from returnees suggests the figure may be higher"
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Xenophobic thugs to Human Rights Commission: ‘We’ll burn you alive’ if you don't stop investigating King Zwelethini'
SA government plans re-registration of all displaced foreigners...
2015-04-26 King Goodwill Zwelithini picture by Siyabonga Masonkutu, The Witness)
Johannesburg - Security has been beefed up at the Durban offices of the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) after a series of violent threats, City Press reports.
Anonymous callers have threatened to burn down the office if it continued its investigation into Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini after his recorded anti-foreigner speech in Pongola last month, which is widely
believed to have sparked the xenophobic attacks in KwaZulu-Natal three weeks ago.
A source within the SAHRC revealed to City Press one of the threatening remarks: “If you do not immediately stop with the investigation against the king, your office will be burnt with you in it.”
Another was directed at SAHRC staff: “Be careful. We are watching you. And we know where you live.”
SAHRC 's Isaac Mangena confirmed the organisation had received numerous threatening letters and calls that came through to the provincial offices “regarding our investigation into the alleged utterance by
His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini at the moral regeneration event in Pongola”.
Mangena said the SAHRC was concerned about the threats because many of the organisation’s staff members “work in the communities where some of the calls and letters come from”.
He declined to reveal from which areas the threats were being received.
“The commission is continuing with its investigation into the king’s utterances and will release a report with its finding at the end of the investigation,” he said.
Mangena said the threats, which were being taken seriously, were now being analysed to see how much danger they posed to the commission and its staff.
He said "the commission believed that Zwelithini had no role in the threats" and said that "the king’s office had been cooperating with the SAHRC’s investigation."
“Whether there is a threat or not, we don’t believe that the king has anything to do with that.”
City Press has obtained a copy of the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure report, which reveals a 27-step programme to address xenophobia and immigration-related problems in South Africa.
The plan is a mix of tough action against foreigners who are in South Africa illegally, and action against those perpetrating the violence.
It includes the re-registration of all foreigners who have been displaced by the recent violence and who are now staying in refugee camps, and the repatriation of those found to be in the country illegally. The
department of home affairs will also begin to trace and monitor foreign nationals. All who enter and leave the country will have to submit biometric information such as fingerprints.
In addition, all government departments will support the programme to reintegrate legal migrants into the communities they fled.
The plan also details daily troop deployments to hot spots, and a massive deployment of intelligence agents to develop a xenophobia early warning system.
The SA Police Service, prosecutors and intelligence departments will work together on a case management system with dedicated courts, prosecutors and interpreters to expedite cases. National police
spokesperson Lieutenant General Solomon Makgale said 330 people had already been arrested in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and North West in connection with the attacks.
Specialised courts, whi
Meanwhile, top South African government officials are furious about the Nigerian Senate’s public reprimand following the xenophobic attacks.
“We restrained ourselves when they had the bodies of our citizens who were killed there,” said a senior official who declined to be named -- referring to the 84 South Africans who died when a building
collapsed at Pastor TB Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations last year in that country. We had grounds to make a scene, but we didn’t,” he said.
On Thursday, Nigeria’s Senate asked the government to immediately recall its ambassador from South Africa and to take Zwelithini to the International Criminal Court. One senator also called for South Africa’s
suspension from the African Union (AU). The AU’s next summit is set to be hosted in Johannesburg in June.
On Monday, Nigeria’s foreign ministry summoned South Africa’s high commissioner to Nigeria, Lulu Mnguni, “to register Nigeria’s protest over the ongoing xenophobic attacks”.
While one Pretoria official described the summons as a “hostile act”, Nigeria’s acting high commissioner to South Africa, Martin Cobham, told City Press yesterday that “it is normal for a government to ask you
to come for clarification or a briefing on events as they unfold”.
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema on Saturday visited the Isipingo refugee camp in Durban, where he distributed mattresses and bedding. He promised to force government to act against
xenophobia.“You are not stealing anybody’s jobs. There are no jobs in South Africa,” he said.
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini caused a stir when she arrived and complained to police about Malema’s presence in the camp. Despite her protestations, police escorted her on a walkabout
while Malema spok. She was booed by the crowd of refugees.
Daniel Dunia, one of 350 Congolese in the Isipingo camp, said he was concerned about what would happen when the camp was closed because not much had been done about reintegrating him and his
countrymen into the communities they came from.
“We have lost our houses and our businesses. Where can we go? There has to be a plan first, otherwise we will be sleeping under a bridge,” he said.
Authorities said the Phoenix camp in Durban, housing refugees from the north of the city, would be emptied and closed this week. There is no end in sight for the Chatsworth camp, which still houses almost 3
000 people, as mainly Malawian refugees continue to arrive in their hundreds daily. Some are looking for a ride home and others fear new outbreaks of violence.
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