On South Africa and Xenophobia

[Faith Avery]

This article gives a nice overview of South Africa and Nigeria's current issues with xenophobia. It is useful in that it has clear and concise headings and connects the current issue with history, geography, and supporting statistics. Because it is written from an American-centric action, it simply analyzes what the world is doing in response to the xenophobia, rather than a specific analysis on what South Africa or Nigeria can specifically do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/09/whats-behind-south-africas-xenophobic-violence-last-week/

[Rachel Walker]

This article emphasizes the recent xenophobic violence in South Africa which targets foreign-owned businesses and foreign residences in two South African cities. The recent violence is said to be part of a long-term issue that has been targeting Africans, native to African countries other than South Africa, for years. This violence, that has resulted in many deaths over the past decades, has received little to no consequential action; however, the recent violence has resulted in some progress for the prosecution of perpetrators for such violence. It is very demoralizing to know that such progress is just now being made if this has been an on-going issue for many decades due to the many deaths involved. I believe that this type of xenophobia is horrible and fails to provide any benefits to all parties involved.

[Gerald D Liddell]

Carolyn Holmes,  of "The Washington Post" speaks of an ongoing problem in South Africa which is xenophobia. This problem has continuously been linked to many violent crimes and protest in South Africa. The author also goes to speak on the fact that South Africa has taken little action on the violence. This article was very informational and touched on pretty much everything you need to know on xenophobia in South Africa.

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[Adeline Mobarak]

During the first week of September, xenophobic violence broke out in Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa.  The violence targeted foreign-owned businesses and foreign residents and led to at least ten deaths.  It remains unclear what kicked off the latest round of attacks, but anti-migrant riots targeting Africans from elsewhere on the continent have occurred in South Africa for decades.  An analysis of xenophobic violence over the last twenty years in South Africa shows these attacks have occurred over a wide geographic area in all of South Africa’s major urban areas.  Though foreign-born residents make up only eight percent of South Africa’s population, South Africans routinely blame them for taking local jobs in a country with a twenty-nine percent unemployment rate.  With a problem like this that has continued for over two decades, South Africa must have some underlying issues in its country and with its citizens that is leading to xenophobic attacks. 

On Monday, September 30, 2019 at 11:46:54 PM UTC-5, Faith Avery wrote: