Refugees the scapegoat of SA`s ills
(WorldNews Africa)

There is one thing 10-year-old Keshia* wishes for with all her might: to leave South Africa for good. This country may be the place of her birth and the only country where she has ever lived, but she cannot call it home. When, she keeps asking, will her family return to the country her parents left many years ago? A country she has never been to and knows little about, but where they would feel more welcome and safer than in South Africa. Born in Johannesburg after her parents fled war and persecution in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and sought asylum in South Africa, Keshia knows what it means not to belong. Her schoolmates make sure she never forgets she is a “kwerekwere”, an...