Only in South Africa: "Okay, we're going to set your house on fire, set the dogs on you and spray you with pepper spray - journalists keep back, it's not a safe environment for you - and we can't kick these people out because that's not safe either....

Oh are you a victim of Xenophobia? Tell you what, come and stay in these tents for a few months until no one is watching... Er...we REALLY REALLY care about your safety.

6 months later:

Okay guys, burn it down.

clipped from www.thetimes.co.za The press was barred from the camp — for “safety” reasons — as it was bulldozed. “There were dogs, guns and pepper spray,” claimed Ethiopian Zerihum Kura. “Our shacks were burning before we could collect all our belongings.” He said his two-year-old daughter, Nahimi, had pepper sprayed into her eyes by police. “[Is it] because we are foreigners? We want to go back to Ethiopia,” he said. “I was running for my life,” she said. The UN High Commission for Refugees’ Monique Ekoko told The Times: “We cannot repatriate people to their home countries because they [the countries] are unsafe. “If people want to go home they must find their own way back. We are working to ensure that South Africa is a safe asylum country.” The refugees, most of whom are Somalis, were told by UN representatives that they could either go to a shelter in Johannesburg for two months or receive R2000 each, or R4000 a family, to find their own housing.