{"id":58335,"date":"2023-12-20T12:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/migrants-living-in-fear-as-xenophobia-rises-ahead-of-south-africas-elections"},"modified":"2023-12-20T12:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T12:40:04","slug":"migrants-living-in-fear-as-xenophobia-rises-ahead-of-south-africas-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/migrants-living-in-fear-as-xenophobia-rises-ahead-of-south-africas-elections","title":{"rendered":"Migrants \u2018living in fear\u2019 as xenophobia rises ahead of South Africa\u2019s elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Right-wing political forces and populist politicians are tapping into anti-migrant sentiments in South Africa to boost chances for 2024 polls<\/p>\n

Without intervention, next wave of \u2018xenophobic attacks could be worse than what we saw in previous years,\u2019 says Hassan Logart, an official of People\u2019s Media Consortium<\/p>\n

High unemployment, high inequality main reasons for anti-migrant hate, says Dale McKinley of Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia<\/p>\n

JOHANNESBURG<\/b><\/p>\n

One evening a few months ago, Piri Musa was at his tuck shop in Soweto, a sprawling township near Johannesburg, when a group of people showed up to ask him for his identification documents.<\/p>\n

Musa, who is in his early 30s, had no choice but to show them the documents, though he knew well what that would mean.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they saw that I was originally from Malawi, they gave me an ultimatum to shut down my business in 30 days,\u201d he told Anadolu.<\/p>\n

\u201cOtherwise, they said they would throw me out by force.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musa has since moved out of Soweto, where he had worked hard for over five years to build a life for himself, his wife and two children.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you refuse, they will ransack your business, or even beat you up,\u201d said Musa, who moved to South Africa seven years ago, narrating an experience that is far from unique to him.<\/p>\n

Many other people of foreign origin have faced such incidents in South Africa, and the problem is only growing worse as the country moves toward crucial general elections next year.<\/p>\n

Right-wing political forces and populist politicians are tapping into anti-migrant sentiments to boost their chances at the polls.<\/p>\n

They accuse migrants of taking jobs that would have been for South Africans, paint them as criminal elements, and claim that they are overburdening the country\u2019s social services.<\/p>\n

Since the end of apartheid in 1994, migrants from Africa and Asia have flocked to South Africa for work, business, education, and asylum.<\/p>\n

According to the latest census results, there are over 2 million migrants in South Africa, a country of some 62 million, with the majority from neighboring Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Mozambique.<\/p>\n

There are also many from other African countries such as Nigeria, Somalia, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as Asian nations like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and China.<\/p>\n

South Africa also has about 250,000 refugees and asylum seekers, according to the latest UN statistics.<\/p>\n

These people are the main targets of movements like Operation Dudula, a vigilante group turned political party that is leading a campaign to shut down businesses owned by foreign nationals.<\/p>\n

In the Zulu language widely spoken in Southern Africa, Dudula means to drive out or evict, and this group has been threatening and forcing African and Asian immigrants to leave their communities.<\/p>\n

Unemployment, inequality fueling hate<\/b><\/p>\n

South Africa witnessed its worst spell of xenophobic violence targeting migrants in May 2008, when at least 62 people were killed, hundreds injured and at least 100,000 displaced as mobs targeted homes of migrants across the country.<\/p>\n

With the increasingly xenophobic rhetoric being pushed by Dudula and other such groups, the fear is a repeat of that level of violence.<\/p>\n

Without timely interventions, \u201cthe next xenophobic attacks could be worse than what we saw in previous years,\u201d Hassan Logart, an official of the People\u2019s Media Consortium, an advocacy group focused on the rights of local communities, told Anadolu.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that this dangerous rhetoric is not just coming from opposition figures or vigilante groups like Dudula, but even from within the ruling African National Congress (ANC).<\/p>\n

Dale McKinley, a spokesperson for the advocacy group Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia (KAAX), warned that the danger of violence is high due to the current socioeconomic conditions in South Africa.<\/p>\n

Unemployment is a major issue in Africa\u2019s most industrialized nation, currently hovering around a staggering 32%.<\/p>\n

\u201cMigrants who came to the country in the last 15 years are seen to be competing for limited resources in the same space with locals,\u201d said McKinley.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is in a country with high unemployment and high inequality, which creates a particular situation, whether perceived or real.\u201d<\/p>\n

He puts the current crisis down to \u201cpolitical opportunism\u201d and right-wing groups \u201ctargeting migrants to score cheap political points.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are already attacks taking place on small shops owned by foreigners. People are being evicted. There have been regular attacks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, McKinley said chances of escalation are still low.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t expect large-scale attacks, but isolated incidents could continue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Migrants are scapegoats\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

The threat of spiraling violence, however, is still looming large. A particular reason is that the message being pushed by movements such as Dudula is resonating with some segments of a society facing economic challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cMigrants have driven us out of business. We pay taxes, they don\u2019t. We have no choice but to support Dudula and other groups to drive them out of our townships,\u201d a resident of Soweto told Anadolu, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want them in our spaces. Let them go back home.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of this, according to Mametlwe Sebei, president of the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa, is a result of politicians using migrants to pass off responsibility for their own failures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are now more counterrevolutionary fascist parties in South Africa, compared to what we saw in previous election campaigns,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Some parties have been telling their voters that they could not deliver services because they did not plan for the extra number of people, he added.<\/p>\n

However, many people are aware of the truth, he said, pointing to Black working class South Africans who live alongside migrants in inner areas of Johannesburg, where there have been protests against growing xenophobia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey know that the real problem of housing or poverty is not migrants. It is the government that is failing,\u201d said Sebei.<\/p>\n

Whatever the near future brings for migrants in South Africa, the current situation is one of immense apprehension.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am living in fear,\u201d said Yomba Johnny, a young Congolese refugee who runs a small corner store in Tembisa, on the outskirts of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is just so much hate against foreigners here right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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