Meron Semedar is a One Young Word Ambassador from Eritrea who has lived in South Africa for 8 years. He is passionate about addressing the appalling human rights situation in Eritrea, but was compelled to write about the xenophobic riots that swept his adopted country, South Africa. His ...
'Afrophobia', as an explanation for attacks on African outsiders in an African country, is a term that has become increasingly utilised in the South African press. This chapter questions the Afrophobia hypothesis, which rests on the idea that attacks on 'foreigners' in South Africa are a ...
2.a belief in a policy of enforcing the asserted right of control. —racist,n., adj. See also:Attitudes a belief that human races have distinctive characteristics that determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one’s race is superior and has the right to control oth...
Reflecting on the causes of the recent xenophobic pogroms in South Africa, it is striking how most commentators have stressed poverty and deprivation as the underlying causes of the events. Yet it requires little effort to see that economic factors, however real, cannot possibly account for why ...
These actions have been described as being "Afrophobic", "Black on Black" Violence and a new form of racism in South Africa. We contend that these vices cannot be divorced from the history of Apartheid which fostered a system of fear of and mistrust for other foreign African nationals ...
Moreover, some South Africans have lost the value of Ubuntu philosophy, leading the former victims to be both the victor and the criminal in the name of fighting for rights in the country that is rightfully theirs.Mujinga, MartinUniversity of South Africa...
Shishonga, N. (2015). The impact of Xenophobia-Afrophobia on the informal economy in Durban CBD, South Africa. The Journal for Tran disciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 11(14), 164.Tshishonga, N. 2015. The impact of xenophobia-Afrophobia on the informal economy in Durban CBD, South...
Violent or other attacks on nationals from other African states are a reality we have come to expect time-after-time in post-apartheid South Africa. We are once confronted with the ugly reality of barbaric and cruel acts of attacks on foreign internationals from other African states, which ...
The article presents a case study of suburb of Yeoville in Johannesburg, South Africa where South Africans and African migrants live together in perfect harmony. It mentions the Raleigh/rockey street in Yeoville where several businesses are run and owned by African immigrants such as Ethiopians, ...
Saying No! to Afrophobia: The Yeoville ExampleXenophobia in South Africa is once again under a strong spotlight, following explosive...Tsumele, Edward