2019 Elections: Xenophobia is flaring pre-elections – but it’s not only politicians who are to blame By Rebecca Davis becsplanb
In July 2018, the DA debuted a new political slogan: “All South Africans First”. Former DA chief strategist Ryan Coetzee expressed his horror on Twitter at the time.. “Three things, DA: I know it polls well but you are playing with people’s lives. Lots of you have told me you’re horrified by this. There is still time to stop this nonsense before it gets out of hand.”
The National People’s Front wants South Africans to be given “first priority” over foreign nationals in all contexts. The People’s Revolutionary Movement proposes penalising landlords who let premises to foreign nationals over South Africans. The Forum 4 Service Delivery is calling for all foreign nationals to leave the country immediately and not be allowed to return for 10 years.
An outlier on the political party front in this regard has been the EFF, which deserves acknowledgement for making anti-xenophobia a pillar of its election campaigningthe current violence – a thoroughly anti-populist stand for a party often associated with cheap populism. This focus, Landau wrote, “prevents empathy from citizens grappling with the competition for scarce resources such as houses, or for jobs, as well as the ethical dilemmas of migration” and ignores the reality that the effects of immigration on local communities can be “unsettling and disorienting, especially during times of economic hardship and political transition”.
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