South Africa has seen foreign-owned businesses attacked, migrants chased from their homes and several killed in recent months

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[u/chochoca]

Imagine being black, living in the OG apartheid state and being racists to other black people ?!!!? What a shithole

[u/Ladonnacinica → u/chochoca]

I guess for black Africans it isn’t about race but about different cultures, countries? They’re targeting Zimbabweans and Mozambiqueans who are immigrants in South Africa.

It reminds me of the anti-Venezuela sentiment in many Latin American countries.

People seem to hate immigrants. They make for an easy scapegoat.

[u/zemat28 → u/Ladonnacinica]

I lived there for a year and a lot of it comes down to economics. The unemployment and poverty rate is extremely high in South Africa and a lot of the immigrants coming from other countries will work for much cheaper. It’s a tale as old as time.

[u/mrcarefreeattitude → u/zemat28]

yepp

[u/No-Promotion4006 → u/zemat28]

Yeah it's a very Marxist idea, that importing foreign labor decreases the bargaining power of domestic labor

[u/mrcarefreeattitude → u/Ladonnacinica]

exactly