1. Last month, an angry mob killed three foreigners on a commuter train outside Pretoria after accusing them of stealing jobs from South Africans.
2. Locally, Afghan refugees are unpopular, seen as tough workers ready to toil for very meager wages and stealing jobs from locals.
3. Many voters blame the immigrants for stealing jobs and business, and want the government to sniff them out and send them home.
4. Refugee counselors say the claims that foreigners are stealing jobs are grossly exaggerated.
5. The Chinese hope that will blunt criticism from labor unions that say China is stealing jobs.
6. Most involved skinheads in the east beating up foreigners, whom they accuse of stealing jobs or living off welfare and spreading drugs and crime.
7. Most of the attacks involved young men beating up foreigners, whom skinheads and neo-Nazis accuse of stealing jobs from Germans or of milking the welfare state.
8. Three foreigners died during a mob attack on a train after they were accused of stealing jobs from South Africans, police said Thursday.