OBBO: South Africa; all these point to failed leadership
Protesters take part in a march against gender based violence and in solidarity with women who have been subject to violence and in memory of those who have been killed, at the North Beach in Durban, on September 7, 2019. PHOTO | RAJESH JANTILAL | AFP
As South Africa in the past few days descended into another bout of xenophobic attacks on African foreigners, it offered up horrifying stories and images of lynching, looting, and frenzied violence.
However, one of the most haunting things didn’t come via a news story. It was an opinion column in the City Press, by one of its journalists, Sipho Masondo. He was mad as hell, and threw political correctness out of the window, calling black South Africans “barbarians.”
