Barbarism Returns

South Africans awoke this morning to incredibly disturbing pictures reminiscent of the dark days of apartheid brutality. The xenophobic attacks has reached a crisis point as 12 immigrants have been killed so far.

In a country supposedly proud of its democratic system and with a constitution built on the respect of human rights, little has been done to stem the violence. It seems that history has not taught us much, if burning people alive is the way to deal with an immigrant problem. More worryingly, further negligence on the abuses in Zimbabwe by the South African government gets one asking whether we are heading down a slippery slope.