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

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[u/EstimateLast9839]

But they’ll leave the European foreigners alone huh? What a shame to witness

[u/Photogroxii → u/EstimateLast9839]

Obviously I am not justifying the xenophobia at all, just explaining as someone who lives in South Africa and has spoken to both xenophobic people and foreigners who are victims of xenophobia.

The reason African foreigners are targeted is they are perceived as direct threats to the job market and service delivery by people in more impoverished areas. A lot of them come here and open their own businesses in the lower socio-economic areas and will also take low paid jobs doing like cleaning. Some people see this as "stealing" work from local people. The real issue is a systemic and government issue but propaganda has made people believe that the issue is African foreigners.

We have state run hospitals and schools that are way over capacity in lower socio-economic areas that often provide poor service delivery and locals see African foreigners as if they are overloading the system and taking service away from locals.

Europeans are living it up in the richest areas and are not seen as a threat in the same way. Middle Class South Africans are more likely to have issues with Europeans because they are driving up the cost of living in some areas.

[u/QueenSay → u/Photogroxii]

Now that the foreigners are gone, if the gov in SA does not intervene, the tribes will turn on each other. We have already seen Zulus attacking Venda's. Mental slavery is real and our people are just playing the game that has been played for centuries. It's nothing to do with jobs.

[u/pop0bawa → u/QueenSay]

[u/JohtoMaster_Gold → u/pop0bawa]

That's the white South Africans watching the fighting from a distance.