ANALYSIS: The foreign invasion? How the anti-immigrant backlash makes us all unsafe

18 August 2019

Over the past two weeks, the government has taken drastic actions against immigrants in the name of safety and sovereignty. This includes a massive raid on counterfeit goods sold informally on Johannesburg streets. When the largely immigrant street-traders resisted, the police retreated swearing to return. A few days later, they regrouped and arrested close to 600 people. Many were undocumented, others had documents in orders. A few were citizens. At least two were South Africans the police presumed were foreign. Yesterday, citizens of Soweto continued to “revenge” the police by looting foreign-run Spaza shops in what appears to have been a locally coordinated attack. What should the South African public make about these moves?

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