They are often kidnapped, tortured, raped, and auctioned like stolen goods on underground slave markets sometimes for as little as $100. It is a dream of a better life turned into a living hell on the shores of the Mediterranean. The life of an African migrant is worth less than that of a dog in Europe. It is a never-ending story of desperation, deceit, torture and murder. The desert is full of

Anywhere you see “South Africa” in the news today, you see the word “xenophobia”. Nobody thought in a million years that Nelson Mandela's "rainbow" nation could descend so low after apartheid. Sadly however, most of us thought wrong. South Africa is gradually descending into a war zone. Xenophobic attacks on migrants from other parts of Africa is not something new in South Africa. It has only