Foreigners living in South Africa say they continue to live in fear as rhetoric around them worsens and politicians fuel the flames of discord.
Cape Town - With elections around the corner, the issue around South Africa’s immigration policies has emerged at the forefront with different political parties offering their own stance on how the country should tackle the inflow of foreigners into our borders and how to deal with those already living in the country illegally.
“I have weathered xenophobic attacks and insults against me and my family enough times to know that we are not safe here. We are caught between a rock and a hard place, because we can’t go home due to the financial situation there.“Even my youngest was born here, but they are ridiculed and called makwerekwere.
Head of the Justice and Violence Prevention programme at the Institute for Security Studies , Gareth Newham said research backs up the finding that most South Africans harbour xenophobic views and it takes very little to spark attacks. “Myths such as foreign nationals are taking jobs, they are getting married to South African woman to get legal status and are involved in drugs and crime, and those are often as a result of people’s fears in what it means to have foreign nationals living in a country.
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