Arm, chaotisch, krisengeschüttelt - die Assoziationen zu Afrika beziehen sich meist auf eine Negativwahrnehmung des Kontinents als Ganzen. Dabei ist Afrika vielfältig und vielgesichtig. Mit dem Thementag "Echt Afrika" begibt sich 3sat 24 Stunden lang auf Entdeckungsreise in einen oft verkannten Teil der Erde. Dokumentationen, Magazine und Filme laden ein, den Kontinent mit anderen Augen zu sehen. (3SAT Programmtext)

Die Nachrichten vom realen Leben, von Ausbeutung, schwarzem Rassismus, Verfolgung, Folter, Totschlag und Mord sind als "Negativwahrnehmung" denunziert. Trotz aller Propagandaübungen der politisch Korrekten hilft das aber weder den Opfern von heute, noch jenen von morgen, weil katastrophale Zustände tabuisiert werden.

Für jene, die sich nicht mit Folklore abspeisen lassen wollen, hier, in Ergänzung des interessanten 3SAT-Programms,  einige Hinweise zu den jüngsten Vorgängen in Südafrika:

IRIN - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

SOUTH AFRICA: Foreign nationals imprisoned in their homes

SOUTH AFRICA: Saving lives is not always easy

SOUTH AFRICA: Xenophobia bad, Mugabe's retribution worse

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Who will pay for peacekeeping ?

SOUTH AFRICA: Burning the welcome mat

SOUTH AFRICA: Townships in turmoil raise fears that xenophobia will spread


All Africa.com
South Africa: Nothing Can Justify Shameful Attacks

Comments to various African issues in allAfrica.com

TAC - Treatment Action Campaign
Government must take decisive action to stop violence
19 May, 2008
The Treatment Action Campaign condemns the wave of xenophobic violence sweeping through communities in Gauteng. We call on Government to take action to halt the violence; to put in place a national strategy to protect the safety, health and well being of victims of xenophobic attacks and to take steps to prevent the violence from spreading further.

Geet also as free download:
Equal Treatment, Issue 25: June 08: Systematic abuse of the rights of immigrants
 

From africafocus:
Issues on migration and human rights, both in Southern Africa and
globally:

http://www.africafocus.org/docs07/rem0711.php

http://www.africafocus.org/docs06/mig0609a.php

http://www.africafocus.org/docs06/mig0609b.php

From Africa Action:
http://www.africaaction.org/docs98/sa9805.htm

http://www.africaaction.org/docs97/samp9702.htm

For extensive background research on issues of migration in Southern Africa, see the website of the Southern Africa Migration Project .

See also the site of MPI - Migration Policy Institute for migration as worldwide phenomenon.

Videoreport in Youtube:

Migrants in South Africa fear for their lives

A report by Al Jazeera, May 20, 2008
For more than a week, South Africa's poor have unleashed their fury on migrants which has left 24 people dead in recent attacks. South African leaders are now trying to bring the situation under control. Kalay Maistry, Al Jazeera's correspondent in South Africa, say that police are out in force, but thousands of foreign workers who fled their homes in the city's townships after gangs of youths began targeting them, say they're still too terrified to go back.