COUNTERING POPULISM: Politicians and business leaders have an incentive to drive division, xenophobia talk shop told

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Activists and community members recently gathered at the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in Cape Town to engage on the issue of rising xenophobia in South Africa. The meeting comes just more than a week after Operation Dudula launched its ...

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“I’m not saying it cares about South Africans, because I see they also have their issues about the Department of Home Affairs. But, as for us, I believe no one cares about us.” Big business, continued Garba, sometimes aligns with local government to drive sentiments against migrant-owned informal businesses. He gave the example of Hermanus, where he has worked.

The scale of inequality in South Africa lends itself to the mobilisation of one unstable group against another, according to Garba. However, the “right-wing populist mobilisations” that have sprung up against migrants are retrogressive.

 

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