If President Cyril Ramaphosa’s view condemning xenophobia represents the official positions of the South African state and the ANC, who was ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe speaking for when he effectively endorsed Operation Dudula?
represents another contradiction with what is known to be the position of his own president. While Pule Mabe praised the movement for, according to the, reiterating the need for South Africans to show respect towards people from other nations. He even denounced the police checking of foreign nationals’ identification cards and compared this type of police action with apartheid practices.
Nevertheless, it is not the first time that we have experienced a disconnect between President Ramaphosa and some high-level cadres of the ANC. We all remember the recent episode between the President and then Minister of Tourism Lindiwe Sisulu on what many people perceived to be an attack from her on the country’s Constitution, which was in stark contrast to the president’s view on the matter.
With xenophobic tensions already very high, the continuous loop of blaming migrants for some of the gravest problems in the country — including corruption, crime, unemployment, poor health services and others — that is playing out in the media in a context of record-high unemployment weak state security, and increasing politicisation of migration at national and local level, will certainly lead to potentially uncontrolled bloodshed.
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