Black South Africans’ “xenophobia” threatens image of South African ruling party
Let’s get our stuff and go! South Africans loot Somali shops.
http://diplomat.so/2015/01/26/south-african-police-trying-to-protect-somalis-of-gangs-attacks/
Africans looting? It hardly seems possible. --tma
No surprise that worries are mounting about the violence being spread by black South Africans against foreigners that is threatening the carefully-cultivated lovey-dovey multicultural mecca image of the Rainbow Nation!
Where is the worldwide media? Can you imagine if this photo above showed white South Africans stealing Somali stuff?
While the great educated minds struggle to figure out what to call the phenomenon, could we maybe just label it what it likely is—a natural desire to live with one’s own tribe—tribalism!
From World Bulletin:
The recent looting of shops owned by African and Asian immigrants poses an ideological threat to the party that has ruled South Africa since the end of apartheid, a prominent scholar has suggested.
“The violence is an effort by individuals, or a group, to achieve economic advancement, political power or recognition, or a sense of social or criminal justice,” Prof. Loren Landau, director of the African Center for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, told The Anadolu Agency.
Over the past few weeks, more than 1,000 shops owned by immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and elsewhere have been looted in townships around Johannesburg.
Officials have shied away from labeling the violence “xenophobia” per se, suggesting that the incidents were mere petty crime. ...
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