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Zuwena Ndabumviye, 25, and her sister (right) Sherizadi Niyonzima, 23, escaped Burundi’s conflict in 2003 after a grenade was thrown into their home. The blast killed their grandmother and shredded Niyonzima’s leg, which had to be amputated.
In South Africa, “even at school, most of the kids would not want to sit next to me, because I am a foreigner”, Niyonzima says. “They say we are here to take their money; to take their jobs.”
They were staying at Wesbank, about 50 kilometres from Cape Town, when “people started to burn foreigners in 2017... We were told people broke into the house and took the money and burned everything. My parents ran away. We have not yet found them.”(Guy Oliver/TNH)
- Themes Migration
- Regions Africa Southern Africa