Experiencing the isolation

Different nations from around Africa who live in South Africa saw the other side of South African citizens. This was shown when the South Africans attacked these people accusing them of taking their jobs, wives and RDP(Reconstruction and Development Programe) houses. Talking to these people nomarly named as foreigners in the Refugee camp at Glenvista in Johannesburg they expressed their views by saying South African citizens have isolated them. They also feel the goverment of South Africa is not doing enough to help them.


One of the Foreigners in this camp said that they really are isolated because they can not even talk to their own families because the place has no electricity they cannot charge their cellphones, so this feels like being an animal in the cage. Situation in this camp for me looked very tense you go to the tent where the family of 8 people is sleeping in one tent, where there is no privacy. South Africa is in winter now and how can a person expect someone to sleep on the floor with only one blanket?. As you can see in this photo the mother of a child is bathing her in an open space where everyone can see and that leaves the question of how safe are the children on this camp?. It is very easy for somebody to just take a child and abuse because the place is dark in the night with no electricity. Children are supposed to be at school but because of the isolation they very scared to go because South African children will also be there. Coming to the point of food complaints are more than you can think. People in the camp feel they have been given expired food because since they started eating from the camp they experienced diarrhea almost all of them. The foreigner from Congo said the Goverment of South Africa is trying to get rid of all the expired food by giving it to them. Another thing he said they want to be sent home very soon but the South African goverment wants them to stay under this isolation situation. About their safety they said when they were beaten by fellow South Africans the police never responded they just laughed and said 'sure'. With this Xenophobia attacks in South Africa I really did not care much but after visiting this camp everything changed, I really felt something for these poor people. Something I saw is that these foreigners are still very angry with South African citizens. A new Africa map was made with South Africa out of Africa.