Clashes pitting the poorest of the poor against one another have killed 22 people in South Africa and underscored bitter frustration with the government's failure to deliver enough jobs, housing and schools.

South Africans are struggling to buy food as prices rise amid stubbornly high unemployment, and many complain the government hasn't worked fast enough to build houses, schools and hospitals for the black majority. Foreigners were attacked because they are seen as competing for scarce resources — and because they were the closest targets at hand for the poor.

"The South Africans are fighting the foreigners. Now the foreigners are fighting back," Letsoso said. "Everyone is suffering."

We've said it before and we'll say it again: multiple ethnic groups can't co-exist within the same society, without conflicts, racism and exploitation as a result. Pluralism doesn't work in America and won't work in South Africa either. The European people in South Africa need to move back to their original homelands and independent ethnic communities need to be established in the area. Do we really need more of this violence and chaos, simply because we have a silly belief that we can all magically go along together?