South Africans should not blame all crime on non-South Africans, the statement from President Jacob Zuma?s office said.
South Africans cheer as they turn over a container belonging to a foreigner as they riot in the Reiger Park informal settlement outside Johannesburg Monday May 19, 2008.
Despite South Africa?s high unemployment, the country is one of Africa?s largest economies and remains a draw for people from far more impoverished nations across the continent.
(Photo: Jerome Delay, AP)JOHANNESBURG - South Africa?s president on Friday condemned reports of violence and intimidation against foreigners and called for restraint as residents of the capital launched a protest against Nigerians and others.
Resentment against foreigners has sometimes turned deadly amid accusations that they take jobs from locals in a country where unemployment is above 25 percent.
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