News24 | Sinqobile Makhathini and Gugu Nonjinge | Unpacking xenophobia through the eyes of the informal miner
Political figures often use xenophobic rhetoric as an electioneering strategy and as a mode of scapegoating for their lack of service delivery in the country. This in turn fuels more xenophobic violence, jeopardising the protections in the Constitution and international law, not only for foreign nationals but for South African citizens, write Sinqobile Makhathini and Gugu Nonjinge.