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Xenophobia in South Africa after 1994. Despite a lack of directly comparable data, xenophobia in South Africa is perceived to have significantly increased after the election of a Black majority government in 1994. [1] Academic Audie Klotz states that following South Africa's transition to democracy in 1994 a new "non-racial xenophobia" has ...
The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots, [23] the Zuma unrest [24] or Zuma riots, [25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa 's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.
The 2019 Johannesburg riots occurred in the South African city of Johannesburg from 1–5 September 2019, leading to the deaths of at least seven people. [2] The riots were xenophobic in nature, targeting foreign nationals from other African countries. [3] Retaliatory actions by rioters in other African nations was taken against South African ...
e. The May 2008 South African riots was a wave of xenophobic riots starting in Alexandra, Gauteng (a neighborhood of Johannesburg) on 12 May 2008 and then spreading to other locations across South Africa. The violence started when South African residents of Alexandra attacked migrants from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, killing two people and ...
Racism and xenophobia towards southern and south east Asians increased in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. [10] [11] [12] In China, some people of African descent were evicted from their homes and told to leave China within 24 hours, due to disinformation that they and other foreigners were spreading the virus. [13]
Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa. Date. 11 April 2015 ( UTC-4) Deaths. 7. On 11 April 2015, several South Africans attacked foreigners in a xenophobic attack in Durban, South Africa, which extended to some parts of Johannesburg. Several people, both foreign and South African alike, were killed with some of the killings captured on camera.
March against xenophobia in South Africa, Johannesburg, 23 April 2015. Xenophobia in South Africa has been present in both the apartheid and post–apartheid eras. Hostility between the British and Boers exacerbated by the Second Boer War led to rebellion by poor Afrikaners who looted British-owned shops.
Operation Dudula is an organisation which turned into a political party in South Africa. The group is widely recognised as being xenophobic, [1] and has been linked with violently threatening and targeting both legal and illegal migrants. [2] The group blames South Africa's porous borders, lenient immigration practices and the presence of ...