‘SA cabinet pledges to protect foreigners’

CAPE TOWN. — The South African cabinet yesterday pledged to protect foreigners amid a resurgence of xenophobic attacks in parts of the country. The law enforcement agencies will continue to have a strong presence in affected areas, and perpetrators will face the full might of the law, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said at a Press briefing in Cape Town after a fortnightly cabinet meeting. Xenophobic violence erupted again recently in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg and some other parts of the country. A number of foreigners were attacked and their shops looted. This followed a wave of xenophobic violence in January in which refugees and foreign nationals were forced to flee their homes and abandon livelihoods after their shops were looted and destroyed. — Xinhua.