Impassable roads, crater-like potholes, burst water pipes, mountains of trash, and grinding poverty are part of everyday life in South Africa's communities. So too are unemployment, hunger, and crime.
The latest wave of violence targeting foreign nationals has claimed several lives since April and forced more than 176,000 people to flee South Africa, most of them returning to their home countries of neighboring Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique.
Anti-foreigner anger escalates
At the recently concluded Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Durban, the vigilante group March and March again called for migrants to leave South Africa.
"Come and take your people back," its members urged the governments of neighboring countries, while police moved to contain the protests.
