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Somalia: South
African Police Capture Counterfeit Materials Belonging Somali
Businessmen
15 October 2009 Shaaficiyah Media

The police and taxation department of South
Africa have captured counterfeit materials belonging Somalis
and Ethiopian businessmen in South Africa, witnesses told
shaaficiyah Media on Thursday.
Reports from Cape Town said that the police
forces attacked and started search operations at the shops
belonging to the Somali and Ethiopian businessmen in Belvelle
neighborhood in Cape Town where is the most populated areas
of the Somalis there.
The South African government accused the Somali
and Ethiopian businessmen for the selling fake materials from
China in their business centers adding that they did not also
pay any taxation of the government and reports indicate that
the South African police forces forcibly robbed their materials
and also took much money including more different belongings
of the Somalis.
Locals also said that the police forces took
all the things in the business centers of the Somalis including
much money which its amount was not disclosed so far adding
that the South Africans said that they could not imagine how
such large amount of money was got by the Somalis in South
Africa.
It is not the first time the South African
forces attack, kill, rob threaten and commit actions against
the humanity to the Somali citizens in South Africa an there
is no comment from the South African authorities yet.
Shaaficiyah Media
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