Hi all, I wanted to do a quick post on the recent violence in South Africa and include some pictures from a recent Zulu field trip (they don't exactly go together, but oh well)(on second thought, I'll let you make your own comparison between the peacefulness in traditional life and the violence occurring in the urban areas). Firstly, some of you may have heard in the news about the violence going on in South Africa. If you haven't, a quick catch up: starting a week or two ago, there have been numerous attacks on immigrants. Mobs of South Africans, angry over lack of jobs, housing, and education, have found scapegoats in the millions of immigrants from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, etc. So far the death toll is somewhere around 30-40 people, include a man who was burned
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