Xenophobia victims bussed back home
…were told there is money to be made here, but Durban is better than here,” she says. Related article: Xenophobia heightens with calling of ‘mass shutdown’ The next day, she…
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Society must construct an anti-xenophobic politics
…dangerous xenophobes. Related article: Xenophobia marks SA’s ongoing decline But complicity with xenophobia spans a wider range of social forces than just the ANC and the state. Herman Mashaba pushes…
The lived experience of xenophobia
‘I Want to Go Home Forever’ is a recently published collection of stories about xenophobia in South Africa as told by migrants and locals to journalists in their own words….
Organised xenophobia gathers momentum
On a Tuesday afternoon in September, about 200 people gathered at the Diepkloof welfare centre for an “urgent imbizo” to discuss ways to “reclaim our township indigenous businesses”. Much…
Xenophobia behind mayor’s ‘citizen’s arrest’
Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba grabbed headlines again this week when he staged his first citizen’s arrest – of a street trader for pushing a trolley full of cow heads in…
The people who sparked the xenophobic violence
…xenophobic means and what is really xenophobia. I think people don’t know what is xenophobia,” he said. “Xenophobia is attacking people and xenophobia can never be something that happens to…
Trucking violence blamed on high unemployment
…could provide the police with a definition of it. “The issue of xenophobia … chairperson, I must talk with you to say the issue of xenophobia to me and my…
Beneath Mashaba’s ‘centrism’ lurks the reactionary
…vicious and unrepentant xenophobia, Mashaba also escalated existing policies such as violent military-style police raids and evictions across the city. Related article: Migrants have a target on their backs Despite…
Popular solidarity is an urgent imperative
…year after year, to working with migrant organisations to explicitly oppose xenophobia. This is where our best hope for alternatives to state-sanctioned xenophobia lies. In South Africa, as in much…
From courage to collapse
…central demand and no attempt to occupy and hold central spaces behind a clear demand. Convenience of xenophobia As Youth Day was marked yesterday, there was another kind of rupture…
The EFF surrenders a key progressive principle
Until recently, the EFF’s sternest critics had to concede that the party had held a principled line on xenophobia towards African migrants. With all the major parties taking xenophobic positions,…
Challenging SA media’s use of right-wing populism
…Rising xenophobia needs to be challenged A political consequence of the Zuma years is that xenophobia and a paranoid hunting for social enemies are often expressed in language from the…
Xenophobic South African mobs: ‘We are sanitising’
…guys, you have it wrong’, but they did not care and chased me away.” Related article: Xenophobia on the rise as Covid-19 roils the planet Dube, originally from Zimbabwe, married…
Political Songs | Ghana – Dorothy Masuka
…As journalist Jan Bornman wrote for New Frame, “Trump is no outlier. Xenophobia and other forms of dehumanising vulnerable minorities have been central to the rise of the far right…
African observers praise South Africa’s elections
…language during the election campaigns of so many parties, along with the larger problem of xenophobia in South Africa. “Using xenophobia has become the tool South African politicians are using…
Zimbabweans show anger at service for Elvis Nyathi
…Xenophobia, a coalition of organisations that campaign against xenophobia. Members of the EFF and the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (Giwusa) were also present. Nyathi was brutally beaten…
South African parties jump to the right on migration
…experience of xenophobia Entirely fabricated numbers are also very common. Michael Neocosmos, a leading scholar on xenophobia, described the scourge of xenophobia as similar to racism in his seminal book From…
A steady ticking towards the hour of the hangman
…gangs and drug merchants. In reality, all its street “operations” have been accompanied by violence, extortion and blood-curdling rhetoric. This movement has emerged at a time of intensified xenophobia in…
Abahlali’s Heritage Day rally condemns violence
…S’bu Zikode, was the main guest speaker at the event organised to celebrate heritage week. “Xenophobia is capitalistic in nature. The bourgeois of this country is behind xenophobia. That’s why…
Migrants in South Africa are here to stay
…[I’ve been a victim of xenophobia]. Like just last night [12 September] at a CPF meeting, the locals kind of have this perception that Nigerians sell and do drugs. But…
How politicians stoke fires of xenophobic resentment
…low in our sorry history of xenophobia should come as no surprise. Politicians and political parties across the spectrum have embraced the politics of xenophobia in South Africa and globally. …