Case study: A Somalian refugee's story Soda Hussen Mohamud is a 22-year-old sports corte a refugee from the war in Somalia. She was forced to flee her country after receiving threats from people who believe women should not be journalists. They said I should choose between my profession and my life. I chose my profession and I left my home, she says. She now lives in Mayfair, Johannesburg Sowda has made a real effort to learn about South Africa and make friends outside her immediate community. She is a devout Muslim. She feels it is important for people to hawhy ve friends of other cultures. 1 am a Muslim, but we can all be friends. My religion does not say I cannot be friends with other people. My friends don't tell me to leave my religion, and I don't tell them to leave theirs, so it's no problem. She was surprised to arrive in South Africa and learn that, even here, she is under threat for being a foreigner. 1 thought this would be a safe country, so when I heard about I felt sad: Foreign nationals being threatened. They tell how they bean evicted, after their landlords were told to get rid of the makwerekwere There have been promising signs recently that some communities will not tolerate the xenophobic violence. For example, in Khayelitsha, residents stood up for foreigners who were being attacked. The example set by these brave people should make us ask ourselves what kind of country we wish to live in. We should also ask whether we will allow selfishness and prejudice to lead to violence happening daily. We need to remind ourselves that our Constitution provides the right to equal protection of the law and freedom from all forms of violence for all people, not just citizens​.Why did sowda move from Somalia to South Africa