About 200 foreigners have sought refuge at a police station in Rustenburg after South Africans on Wednesday torched six buildings they believed to be drug dens.
This is according to Marc Gbaffou, chairperson of the African Diaspora Forum (ADF), who called on all stakeholders to work together to root out criminals.
“We [the ADF] are against any criminal activity; it does not matter who committed it,” he said,
Gbaffou said it was disingenuous to call this a crime of a specific nation. “Foreign communities are easily [seen] as criminals.”
He said all foreigners residing in Rustenburg lived in fear. “They are scared. They have since shut their businesses as they are scared the community might retaliate and attack them.”