Africa: Xenophobic Violence in South Africa And Its Implications for the Continent

2 June 2008
opinion

For the first time, since black majority rule became a reality in South Africa, South Africans sang the famous N'kosi Sikélélé Africa (God Save Africa) as God Damn Fellow Africans!

Within a week, a minority of South Africans rubbished the philosophy of Ubuntu (humanity to others), African unity and African renaissance. Understandably, such xenophobic violence towards fellow Africans places the ANC leadership and party between a rock and a hard place.

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