Between 2000 and March 2008 , at least 67 people died Death in what were identified Check as xenophobic attacks Attack .

In 2015 , another nationwide spike in xenophobic attacks Attack against immigrants in general prompted Causation a number of foreign governments to begin Process_start repatriating their citizens .

Subsequent studies found Know indications of xenophobic attitudes towards these refugees , typified by them being denied Agree_or_refuse_to_act access to the primary healthcare to which they were technically entitled Name_conferral .

Two years earlier , at a similar meeting Social_event in Johannesburg , Mapisa-Nqakula had admitted that refugees and asylum seekers were mistreated Bodily_harm by police with xenophobic attitudes .