Afrophobia
latest news & developmentsA call to action against Afrophobic violence
The Beijing+30 Women’s Movement expresses its grave concern and unequivocal condemnation of the rising and increasingly violent wave of Afrophobic attacks unfolding across South…
Resolve the crisis without Afrophobia
Businessman and ANC activist George Dingizulu Moyo, rooted in Alexandra's struggle and with Zimbabwean heritage, reflects on South Africa's immigration crisis. He advocates for…
It’s time to turn the department of home affairs around
Honesty and ethics are in short supply among this vital department’s officials
Operation Dudula, Afrophobia and the quest for human rights
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
Economic Freedom Fighters turn on foreign nationals
Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters have joined the anti-black immigrant chorus, demonising those from countries such as Zimbabwe.
What the Omicron variant and Mashaba’s election ticket have in common
Stigmatising the marginalised is driven by vested interests, both in the case of African foreign nationals subject to xenophobia and South Africans facing economic doom
We were separated by colonial borders and lost our ubuntu
Afrophobia is an imported anti-African sentiment that internalises colonialism because current state borders never existed in African societies
China’s African headache
Racist and derogatory videos are causing incalculable damage to China’s image in Africa, but this is unlikely to change the relationship
Patriarchy, migration fuel Afrophobia
City streets are ‘washed’ to cleanse them of work competitors and for moral, cultural and social restoration
No African is a foreigner in Africa – except down in South Africa
In sorrow over the way migrants are treated in South Africa, Achille Mbembe calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance
Mugabe is a zero, not a hero
"One just has to look at his legacy."
Xenophobia and party politics in South Africa
All political parties in SA try to mobilise voters based on their and voters’ xenophobia and they’re outdoing each other
We are not xenophobic, we are Afrophobic
South Africans need to be taught that our democracy is thanks to our neighbours
I don’t need to bleed for you to see my humanity
There’s another reason why xenophobia festers as South Africa’s national disease.
Beware the fake empathy of liberals
"Do liberals care to chip away at inequality in the spaces they control?"