Anti-outsider violence is not universal, nor always aimed at immigrants alone. It is also not easily explained by poverty.
not higher than they have been for a decadeAnti-immigrant activism is politics by other means, with violence likely to become common amid fundamental ruptures in governance. After years of unfulfilled promises, a youthful citizenryPopular embrace of nationalism, street justice, and anti-immigrant activism reflects the ascendancy of an extralegal order. That regime is a mix of formal institutions and local fiefdoms held together by patronage and coercion. That system is now unravelling.
This created a system of “indirect rule”, reflecting a similar logic to the colonial administration where local “chieftains” worked in complex patronage networks to keep public order. But, where the gangsters once worked under the national government, the police and officials now appear to answer to vigilantes, participating in Dudula raids under the “The postapartheid system of indirect rule has been expedient for the governing party.
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