Submission Statement: The story describes the crisis of xenophobic harassment and attacks going on in parts of South Africa at present. On social media, rumours of a big march to take place on June 30th have struck fears of an outbreak of violence like in 2008. The story describes the incompetence and failure, possibly willful, of the police to protect people.
The story is relevant to liberals as xenophobic violence is one of the clearest (but many) examples of the South African government's inability to implement the protections promised to people under the Constitution. A xenophobic South Africa cheapens the promise of the institutions and laws that South Africa, in an ideal world, should be inspiring the rest of the continent to adopt. As I saw on one Reddit post about South Africa's LGBT progress: "so they will protect gay people but hurt Nigerians".
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