As the coronavirus outbreak has slammed the South African economy and pushed unemployment to a 17-year high, it’s awakened a recurrent social demon: xenophobia. Anti-immigrant groups have staged demonstrations in…
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SA's broadcast media fingered for fueling xenophobia
By Daniel Itai, Pretoria, South Africa The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has fingered the country’s broadcast media as the enabler of xenophobic slurs that have been hovering in the…
'Beware of parody accounts'
By Daniel Itai, Johannesburg, South Africa Following a series of social media rants that have been specifically aimed at non-South Africans some media experts have urged users to be wary…