Summary: There will be an anti-immigration march in South Africa in the next week. In the past, anti-immigration sentiment has spiralled out into brutal xenophobic violence.
I've argued before that many of the global trends in politics – right wing populism, pro-Putin parties and anti-immigration sentiment – began in South Africa a few years before the rest of the world and SA's problems from the 2010s should be understood as part of that global trend. But in SA, the fallout tends to be worse. This is the case with anti-immigration.
Relevance: This story will be important to follow because of the human rights dimension, and because if there is a big flair up in anti-immigrant violence, it will be the first such flare up under the coalition government. The Home Affairs minister responsible for immigration is from the liberal DA party. Additionally, the leader of the country's most anti-immigrant party is a member of cabinet as well (Sports, Arts and Culture).
Tbh I also wanted to post this because I do not only want to post positive developments from SA. It is clear there are still many problems in our society, including problems which are new (post Apartheid) and worsening.
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>Additionally, the leader of the country’s most anti-immigrant party is a member of cabinet as well (Sports, Arts and Culture).
South Africa has parties not in the coalition in government?
>I’ve argued before that many of the global trends in politics – right wing populism, pro-Putin parties and anti-immigration sentiment – began in South Africa a few years before the rest of the world
I don’t know about that tbh
France had Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round in the 2002 Presidential Election
it’s still funny that EFF are the ones pushing back against xenophobia and homophobia
Made me think of this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda