{"id":431803,"date":"2011-05-28T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/28\/police-blame-business-feud-for-anti-somali-violence\/"},"modified":"2011-05-28T16:17:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T16:17:59","slug":"police-blame-business-feud-for-anti-somali-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/28\/police-blame-business-feud-for-anti-somali-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Blame Business Feud for Anti-Somali Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"27.0406736575\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jean-Jacques Cornish<\/p>\n<p>28 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Some Somali shopkeepers are returning to their businesses in the South African city of Port Elizabeth after two nights of violence saw 58 shops attacked and looted.<\/p>\n<p>Police are adamant the attacks were caused by a business feud and not the xenopbia that killed more than 60 foreigners in South Africa three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s Human rights Council has condemned the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Andre Beetge describes it as business rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>Local traders in these areas complain that there are too many shops owned or run by Somalis and that they are being driven out of businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The looting rampage started on Wednesday afternoon and continued until after midnight. Police were pelted with stones by some of the residents when they arrived<\/p>\n<p>Beetge insists the incidents are not xenophobic attacks.<\/p>\n<p>While some of the Somali shop owners who had fled the area have returned to open their businesses more than 100 others packed their belonging and left the townships under police guard.<\/p>\n<p>In some incidents, foreign shop owners were assaulted but no injuries or deaths were reported to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Beetge says they&#8217;re waiting for charges to be laid. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Several Somali nationals who have moved in to take over recession-hit South African businesses have lost their lives in the past.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110527-south-african-police-blame-business-feud-anti-somali-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105280003.html\" title=\"Police Blame Business Feud for Anti-Somali Violence\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Police Blame Business Feud for Anti-Somali Violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Jean-Jacques Cornish 28 May 2011 Some Somali shopkeepers are returning to their businesses in the South African city of Port Elizabeth after two nights of violence saw 58 shops attacked and looted. Police are adamant the attacks were caused by a business feud and not the xenopbia that killed more than 60 foreigners in South Africa three years ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":401099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-431803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Blame Business Feud for Anti-Somali Violence - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/28\/police-blame-business-feud-for-anti-somali-violence\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Police Blame Business Feud for Anti-Somali Violence - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Jean-Jacques Cornish 28 May 2011 Some Somali shopkeepers are returning to their businesses in the South African city of Port Elizabeth after two nights of violence saw 58 shops attacked and looted. 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