SOUTH AFRICA: Abdallah Afrah, "The bullet continued straight into my younger brother's head"
CAPE TOWN, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - Somali shopkeeper Abdallah Aman Afrah, 35, has lived in South Africa for five years, but the death of his younger brother, Abdul Kadir Ahmed, in a robbery at their shop in the Langa township of Cape Town, has convinced him to return home. Somalis have been particular victims of xenophobic violence, with the worst outbreak occurring in May 2008.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Aunesi Saidi Omari: "In South Africa I'm not safe, and in my country I'm not safe"
CAPE TOWN, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - Aunesi Saidi Omari lives in the Philippi township of Cape Town, South Africa. A refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, she was a victim of the xenophobic violence that hit South Africa in May 2008. Afraid of going back to the local community, she is now unsure of her future.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Foreigners (still) beware
CAPE TOWN, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - As Aunesi Omari and her children cowered in her room in Philippi, a low-income section of the South African city of Cape Town, in Western Cape Province, she heard the armed men outside shout: "We're going to kill you because you don't want to listen."
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SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: The politics of cholera
JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - The number of people being treated for cholera in the northern town of Musina, near South Africa's border with Zimbabwe, is falling, but the situation remains serious.
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SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: Cholera crosses the border too
JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has crossed into South Africa, with four confirmed diagnoses in a total of 68 suspected cases in the border town of Musina, according to aid workers.
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SOUTH AFRICA: What if sex work were legal?
CAPE TOWN, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - Governments across the world grapple with the question of how best to deal with sex work: should it be decriminalised, or should existing legislation be enforced to better control the industry?
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SOUTH AFRICA: Diane, "Most people hate sex workers"
CAPE TOWN, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - Diane* is a sex worker in South Africa's tourist capital, Cape Town. She spoke to IRIN/PlusNews about her 12 years in the business.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Desmond Doshane, "I want a president who can unite everyone"
JOHANNESBURG, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - Desmond Doshane, 19, is one of 1.6 million newly registered South African voters. He will be casting a ballot for the first time in elections due in the first half of 2009, and told IRIN what this means to him.
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DRC: What will stop the fighting?
JOHANNESBURG, 10 November 2008 (IRIN) - A pledge by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to complement UN peacekeeping forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with SADC soldiers does not take account of the regional body's limited military capacity, a military analyst told IRIN.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: The elephant in the room
CAPE TOWN, 7 November 2008 (IRIN) - South African National Parks (SANParks) controversially auctioned off 47 metric tonnes (mt) of stockpiled ivory on 6 November, earning the government conservation agency US$6.7 million.
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