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- South Africa’s young black activist, Nhlanhla Lux Dlamini, who leads the anti-migrant protest has been arrested for questioning. Supporters of protests instantly reacted in the social media and threatened that they would intensify the protests.
South Africa’s young black activist, Nhlanhla Lux Dlamini, who leads the anti-migrant protest has been arrested for questioning. Supporters of protests instantly reacted in the social media and threatened that they would intensify the protests.
South Africa’s young black activist, Nhlanhla Lux Dlamini, who leads the anti-migrant protest has been arrested for questioning. Supporters of protests instantly reacted in the social media and threatened that they would intensify the protests.
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The protests have been going on for quite some time against the migrant workers in several cities. One form of protests was the activists visiting shops to demand that foreign employees accused of stealing South Africans’ jobs be fired. These demonstrations have led to a lot of tensions but bereft of violence, so far. Some time earlier, the demonstrators had agitated against the migrant workers from Nigeria, which led to a lot of looting and violence, even to a few deaths. It seems hundreds of Nigerians had left South Africa ever since, not to come back. There were counter demonstrations against South African firms operating in Nigeria.
The other day, www.trendsnafrica.com has reported about the statement of South African Prime Minister urging people not to get involved in demonstrations and at the same time telling employers refrain from recruiting undocumented foreign migrant workers. He told the South Africans that such demonstrations may be interpreted as xenophobic outbreaks. At the same time, he gave the employers freedom to recruit documented foreign workers. Employers recruit foreign migrant populations from neighbouring countries like Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. If checks are not put in place and some sort of regulation is not being imposed, alarmists say the situation might go out of control like the one that had happened with the Nigerian migrant workers sometime in 2019 before the onset of the pandemic.
Sixty-two people were killed in riots in 2008. Ever since violent demonstrations had erupted regularly in 2015, 2016 and in 2019. South Africa, according to official estimates, has 3.95 million foreigners, constituting close to 7% 0f its total population of 60 million. These demonstrations have to be seen against the context of unemployment creeping in one of the most industrialized country in the continent, to the vicinity of 35%.
