The state’s failure to act as a source of moral or political authority creates a vacuum that ‘seductive’ populist movements are happy to fill
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The ongoing Afrophobic behaviour in our country is misdirected anger and frustration at the fact that black South Africans still have to make do with welfare crumbs
The removal of migrants won’t stop the job crisis, end crime, fix the schooling system or the police service, repair hospitals, and end poverty
Operation Dudula has carried out a crackdown against illegal immigrants in Jo’burg, a drive that has resonated with mainly poor, angry South Africans