Zwe Nxumalo
Zwe Nxumalo is a social activist, law student, and a writer working on his first novel.
Where does patriotism end and xenophobia begin?
/ 7 May 2026

Where does patriotism end and xenophobia begin?

There is something deeply dishonest about how few South Africans discuss immigration. They have become comfortable with moral grandstanding while communities collapse under the pressure of uncontrolled migration, criminal syndicates, collapsing infrastructure, drug networks and economic exclusion. The ordinary South African who raises these realities is quickly condemned before they are even heard