I have just come from a work trip to Accra, Ghana. Accra is one of my favourite cities on the continent. It is a bustling coastal city that offers a culturally rich and cosmopolitan experience. In every subsequent visit to the city since my first trip some 15 years ago, I see progress — the improved Kotoka Airport, better roads, telecommunications and tourism infrastructure and better social services.
I am an Afro-optimist but every time I travel on the continent, it coincides with increased threats of violence by South Africans against African immigrants. So, I don’t want to write this column. I feel uncomfortable when I am asked to explain why South Africans hate Africans so much when I am in other countries. This resurgence of xenophobia, anger and debates on whether South Africans are “inherently xenophobic” hasn’t got us far.
The post-apartheid government would initially try to rectify this position, by adopting a more African-immigrant sympathetic view alongside the African Renaissance narrative. There has been an increase in the incidence of unfavourable views toward immigrants, particularly since the late 1990s, with perceptions of immigrants low and deteriorating fast.
Still, the government thought something should be done about a problem it often claims doesn’t exist. The inflation rate remained high throughout this period, surpassing the 3-6% inflation target set by the South African Reserve Bank in 2016 to hit 6.5% before easing down to less than 4% in 2017.
All for show - just goes to show apartheid has long term effects and racism is part of that. SA is (failing at) hiding this precedent this status quo
Bloody fools
Freetrade does not mean mass immigrant to SA.
How does ACFTA connect to immigrants flooding our country. Our country's systems are collapsing so we should stand there and warch because free trade is blocking us from telling people to go back home. We can do that whilst they are home
U think there's sense in whatever u just said here?
You guys are crazy and plse STOP blackmailing SAfrcns with this xenophobia nonsense yet most African countries correctly take a stand against migration whether legal or otherwise. Zimbabwe where the owner of your newspaper comes from also hve policies against migrant wokers
ALL LIES!🤥there's NO Anti-African thing happening here but only anti-criminality & lawlessness. Everyone knows that SA is full of illegal foreigners who continue to embarrass their own countries by running away, without exit permits & entering SA borders without entry permits 2.
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This news paper it's a owned by a Zimbabwean since its on crusade to label South Africans Xenophobia, but SA citizens are supposed to say nothing when their jobs are being taken by illegal foreigners
Journalist burying their heads in the sand once again 😭