In a macabre spectacle, South Africa’s political parties are competing to be in sync with anti-migrant views, encouraging xenophobia in an attempt to woo back voters after being snubbed in last year’s local government elections.
. While that peace has held for the most part, violent conflagrations erupt occasionally, threatening the tenuous peace holding the country together.
Yet the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly erased those gains. Depending on how you define it,in South Africa People accused of being “undocumented immigrants” are evicted during a march through the streets of Soweto, South Africa, on 16 June 2021. It is into this quagmire that political parties, smarting from their various failures to appeal to the electorate , have repackaged an old theme: xenophobia. This time the ground appears even more fertile for this message than ever before.
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