Xenophobia and party politics in South Africa
All political parties in South Africa try to mobilize voters based on their and voters' xenophobia and they're outdoing each other with an election scheduled for 2019.
All political parties in South Africa try to mobilize voters based on their and voters' xenophobia and they're outdoing each other with an election scheduled for 2019.
Xenophobia after the #ParisAttacks isn’t limited to boneheads like Rupert Murdoch.
The writer's discomfort with being South African in Zimbabwe; something he eventually has to come to terms with.
On Mozambican TV, South Africa is divided between the people of good will with their pots of rice, and the people of Goodwill with their knobkieries and pangas.
The truth of our global age is that autochthony, nativism, or heritage no longer define us exclusively. So, solidarity based on phenotype or heritage is dangerous.
The South African question is far too important to accommodate an explanation that is simplistic and childish.
To seriously respond to xenophobic violence, start with the deconstruction of border politics and acknowledging the colonial inheritance the border represents between countries.
Writer Fatou Diome: It's the representation that Europe does to the Other that feeds xenophobia.
The ethno-nationalism that marked apartheid’s dying days has now morphed into a malignant “nativism” that threatens post-apartheid democracy.
Like many other African states, South Africans discharge their anger at political failings on easy scapegoats: those they deem foreigners.
Today for the first time since Mandela was freed, I am ashamed to be a South
Why has this country historically represented a “circle of death” for anything and anybody ‘African’?
Most South Africans have at least one thing in common: their hatred of other Africans coming from the rest of the continent.
An alternative lens on migration stories that are often ignored in the mainstream media.
Lesotho's media and the "problem" of Chinese immigrant shop owners.
The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society
An interview with the leaders of a viral online campaign originating in Norway aimed at exposing European ignorance about the foolhardiness of humanitarianism in Africa.
South African photographer Scott Williams is the second guest in our new weekly series. He has,
Riveting piece of journalism in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine as well as an accompanying
From nationalism, we have passed to chauvinism, and finally to racism. Why are South Africa's middle classes not mobilizing against xenophobia.