Don’t paint whole Phoenix community with same brush, SAHRC hears

Social cohesion group objects to the characterisation of the killings during the July riots in Phoenix as a ‘massacre’

21 June 2022 - 19:39

The SA Human Rights Commission must make a conscious effort to distinguish the actions of the perpetrators of violence in Phoenix during the July unrest from those of the community as a whole...

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