On March 20, 2017, an article was published in Xinhua, titled ‘South Africans once again exposed to xenophobic attacks.’
The article quoted Stanford Mahata, a researcher at University of Witwatersrand, South Africa as said, “The education system is an example of policy failures. In this case, poor education compounded the inappropriate labor market policy which in turn compounded the unemployment problem.”
There was mixed-up of names, the quote should have been attributed to Stan Kwande, an Independent researcher in migration and labour issues, not Stanford Mahata.
The article, which was also published online by the coastweek.com. is hereby retracted, and Xinhua regrets any such misinterpretation.

