KARIUKI: You were not born hating fellow Africans, you can learn to love
A group of Zulu men carrying sticks, claws and machetes are gathered in front of a police officers in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, on September 3, 2019, following a second night of urban rioting in Johannesburg, in an unusually large expression of anti-foreigner sentiment. PHOTO | GUILLEM SARTORIO | AFP
While not new, incidents of attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa including refugees and asylum seekers, mostly fellow Africans, continue to recur.
In 2008, 62 people lost their lives and up to 100,000 were displaced in the violence that ensued. Thabo Mbeki, the then president vowed “never again.”
